Encuentro NYC Colombian Music Festival

Encuentro NYC Colombian Music Festival EncuentroNYC (VIII Encounter "Encuentro" of Colombian Musicians in NY) Oct 22-23 Queens and Manhattan visit our Facebook page: Encuentro de Músicos Colombianos en NY find the 2-day event on Facebook: Encuentro Familiar/Encuentro Gala

DAY 1: Saturday, Oct 22, 1-5pm Encuentro Familiar/Family Day Flushing Town Hall Flushing, Queens Family Day Tickets $10 adults/$5 kids in advance or at the door Produced in collaboration with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and FolkColombia, this is your chance to learn about the traditions of Colombia, with groups representing each of the four main musical regions of Colombia, including dance workshops. The programming is kid friendly, so come with the family! Empanadas by Mama's Empanadas in case you get hungry... FLUSHING TOWN HALL---main stage and art gallery 1:00 PM Daniel Fetecua Soto (of the Limon Dance Company and Pajarillo Pinta'o) Pacific coast dance workshop, main stage 1:20 PM Grupo Chonta Performance (led by master marimba player and multi-instrumentalist Diego Obregon/Afro-Colombian music from the Pacific Coast) main stage 2:00 PM Meet the Artist with Diego 2:15 PM Torbellino/Ribbon dance main stage with Daniel Fetecua and Alejandro Florez guitar trio (virtuoso guitarist of his group Tibaguí, playing traditional torbellinos for the kids dance activity) Main stage 3:00 PM Gaita performance with Martin Vejarano (of La Cumbiamba eNeYe and Chia's Dance Party) (Gallery) 3:30 PM Songs from Los Llanos with Johanna Castañeda y su Grupo Llanero (traditional music from the Plains region of Colombia with harp, cuatro, and percussion) (Gallery) 4:00 Caribbean dance workshop with Lucy Cruz (learn to dance to such rhythms as the cumbia!) 4:20 Grupo Rebolú Performance and Carnival parade (representing the traditions of Colombia's Caribbean coast, led by Ronald Polo and Moris Cañate)

DAY 2: Sunday Oct 23, 5pm-1am Encuentro Gala Showcase Le Poisson Rouge, Manhattan (Bleecker between Thompson and Sullivan in the West Village) Encuentro Gala Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door, minors $15 at the door only tickets also available at the box office in advance Eight Hours of the best of Colombian music, traditional and modern, in New York City in one night at one of NYC's most renowned music venues. This year, we're incorporating music and dance on the floor between acts, with Daniel Fetecua Soto and Pajarillo Pinta'o, Jonathan Gómez y su Papayera la Original, guitarist Nilko Andreas Guarin, and Daniel Rojas and his joropo ensemble. There's a great dance floor, a nice "tapas" style menu with a variety of small dishes from empanadas to sushi, and a bar. Come eat, drink, dance, and celebrate! Here's the breakdown: Doors 4:30pm 5:00 Joropiada with Daniel Rojas (traditional llanero music) 5:20 Alejandro Flórez-Tibaguí (modern, sophisticated, and original Andean guitar-based music) 5:50 Daniel Fetecua and Pajarillo Pinta'o Dance Company 6:15 Lucía Pulido (renowned soulful Colombian singer) 7:00 Chia's Dance Party (Martin Vejarano's funky sextet blending jazz and Chirimia, reminiscent of a New Orleans jazz band a la Colombiana) 7:25 Tribute to Ricardo Leon Peña Villa and Ligia Naya with classical guitar virtuoso Nilko Andreas Guarin 7:40 Samuel Torres y Yaounde (world renowned virtuoso conga player and his band) 8:20 Andrea Tierra (singer/songwriter presenting her own poetry about love, life, and the land, with renowned musicians, including Edmar Castañeda on harp) 8:40 Edmar Castañeda (harpist extraordinaire and his group presenting a jazzy take on the traditions of the Plains region of Colombia) 9:05 Jonathan Gómez y su Papayera la Original (an acoustic Colombian street band) 9:20 Sebastián Cruz Cheap Landscape Trio (earthy, urban, funky fusion of rock, jazz, and traditional Colombian rhythms) 9:45 Jonathan Gómez y su Papayera la Original 10:05 Pablo Mayor's Folklore Urbano Orchestra (renowned 12-piece dance band) 10:50 Gregorio Uribe Big Band (16-piece big band under the direction of rising star vocalist/drummer/percussionist Gregorio Uribe) 11:20 Alejandro Zuleta Vallenato Quartet (from the dynasty of the Zuleta family of Vallenato stars) starting off the ALL STAR JAM uniting Day 1 and Day 2 of the festival, bringing together artists from both days in a celebratory jam to close the night, including Ronald Polo, Moris Cañate from Rebolú, Diego Obregon fromGrupo Chonta, Memo Acevedo, Johanna Castañeda, and more!

RIP Eugenio Arango "Totico" QEPD

Que descanse en paz, o que rumbee en el cielo

Here's an obituary from worldmusiccentral By Les Moncada:

Influential singer and percussionist Eugenio Arango “Totico” died Friday, January 21st in New York. He was a well known vocalist, who recorded Patato y Totico, a seminal Cuban rumba album in 1967, together with his boyhood friend Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes.

Totico was a legend and well known as a rumbero, and individual that had the knowledge and ability to play, sing and dance the Cuban rumba rhythms of guaguancó, yambú and rumba columbia. Totico was also an akpuón, a lead singer for Afro-Cuban santeria ceremonies.

Totico was know for his quinto conga drumming style and his rumba singing. Totico recorded a legendary album that is a classic for all rumberos and drummers with the famed conga player/dancer Carlos “Patato” Valdes entitled Patato and Totico. Patato y Totico featured percussionist Carlos “Patato” Valdés on congas and Eugenio “Totico” Arango on vocals and congas, together with the legendary blind tresero (tres guitarist) Arsenio Rodriguez and the late Israel “Cachao” Lopez on bass. Originally released in 1967, Verve Records reissued it on CD in 2004.

Totico was born in Havana, in the Los Sitios barrio (district). After moving to the United States he performed and recorded with artists such as Israel “Cachao” López, Francisco “Kako” Bastar, Carlos “Patato” Valdés and Alfredo Rodríguez.

Totico’s discography includes Patato y Totico (Verve V6-5037, 1967), Totico y sus Rumberos (Montuno 515, 1992), and Sonido Sólido, with Alfredo Rodriguez, Patato and Totico (Top Ten Records 1995).

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And a review for a classic Totico record, from Totico's MySpace page

NY Times Review: (c) Robert Palmer
Published: August 14, 1981

To many New Yorkers, summer music is the music people play on the front steps of apartment buildings and in the city's parks, music that usually involves one or two conga drums, some other percussion instruments and singing, primarily in Spanish. Some summer strollers and joggers consider street-corner Latin music a nuisance, but it has a rich history and is often a singular blend of the staunchest traditionalism and more recent influences. It is rarely recorded, and it has probably never been recorded as winningly as on ''Totico y Sus Rumberos,'' a new album on the Montuno label.

Totico is Eugenio F. Arango, a native of Havana who has lived in New York for a number of years but still sings in the forcefully fluid style of the great Cuban vocalists. He most frequently performs music that derives directly from the rituals of Santeria, the African-derived religions that still flourish in Cuba, though he is also at home in more popular idioms.

The ''rumberos'' he has assembled for his album include expert players of the bata, the Nigerian drum associated with Santeria rituals. But except for a couple of religious chants, the music is street-corner rumba, sung with much feeling and exquisite musicality by Totico and backed by a lusty vocal chorus and some exceptionally fancy percussion, with Andy Gonzalez's string bass added as an anchor.

One selection on the album is a kind of summation of New York as the ultimate cultural melting pot. It is ''What's Your Name?'' the familiar rock-and-roll hit from the 1950's, and Totico and his producer, Rene Lopez, have given it a subtitle: ''Doo-Whop Bata Rumba.''

They have taken the original rock-and-roll song, sung it in the street-corner style that is usually spelled ''doo wop,'' put a rumba rhythm to it and added cross-rhythms on the bata drums. The result is one of the most striking examples of New York summer music to be found on records. ''Totico y Sus Rumberos'' is available in many shops or or call Montuno Records, 840-0580. Robert Palmer
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Audio:
"Agua que va caer" A classic of summertime NYC rumba in Central Park and Tompkins Square Park back in the day - lots of memories here.

A guaguancó cover of the Brazilian bossa nova "Mas que nada"



Covering the Don and Juan doo-wop piece "What's Your Name?" (Ignore the video).

"The Afro-Latin@ Reader": Book Presentation & Signing

The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States is the
first of its kind, detailing the contributions of Latinos of African descent in
the United States.

Thursday December 2nd, 2010
5:00pm
NAC Room 6/141
The City College of New York
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

Join us in a presentation of the Afro-Latin@ Reader featuring Professors
Miriam Jiménez-Román and Juan Flores

The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly
invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from
Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United
States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and
Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Sponsored by the Department
of Modern Languages, Department of Sociology and the Department of Black
Studies at The City College of New York.

For more info, visit the CCNY event webpage

Ambience in the Humanities: Translating New Surroundings into New Poetics

Full disclosure: I will be reading a paper for this one (via Skype, which I've never done before...)

Ambience in the Humanities: Translating New Surroundings into New Poetics November 19-20, 2010 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor The Humanities Initiative conference, organized by former Graduate Student Fellows Elena Bellinaand John Melillo Sounds, voices, musics, images, written codes of all sorts – in today’s media-saturated environment, humans lend their ears and eyes to an abundant and seemingly free-floating worlds of social and sensory information. The intensity of this information calls for different models of poetics that figure the artist not as a lone fabricator constructing and reconstructing a singular tradition but rather as an antenna, receiving and rebroadcasting atmospheres of experience. The affects, concepts, and materials that create particular ambiences do not merely condition the work, as in the classic divide of text and context, but literally inform it, giving both material and shape to the poetic process. From everyday life to extreme conditions of constraint, from suburbia to the warzone, how does the sensing self record—consciously or unconsciously—the ambience of these zones and spaces? In this conference, we propose to organize a series of roundtable discussions with writers, composers, performers, and critics that will consider not the influence of a particular tradition or canon but rather the influence of particular material surroundings. What does New York—as a crowded, built-up urban environment—mean for punk rock musicians in the early 1970s? How do the sounds of warfare affect soldiers and civilians in past and contemporary war zones? How do the symbols and images of pop culture get rearranged as signs of political allegiance? How do all the arts reflect the conditions of their production—not only in a political economic sense but also in the sense of sensing itself—the social materiality of exterior information? For more information, including a conference program, please visit ambienceconference.wordpress.com.

Pablo Mayor & Folklore Urbano Event(o)s

María Mulata with Pablo Mayor and members of Folklore Urbano Friday and Saturday, November 12-13th Pablo Mayor will be collaborating with special guest vocalist María Mulata from Bogotá, Colombia, at this charming art space dedicated to presenting and promoting Colombian culture in Queens. It feels like a cafe bar right out of Bogotá, Colombia. La Terraza 7 Train Cafe 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, Queens 11373 Tickets $10/$15, can be purchased in advance (advisable, since it is a small place and this is María Mulata's first show in NYC) La Terraza

5th Annual LACW's closing event: Pablo Mayor and members of Folklore Urbano with María Mulata Wednesday, November 17th 7-10pm (closing band of the night) Pablo Mayor will be collaborating with special guest vocalist María Mulata from Bogotá, Colombia, with members of Folklore Urbano to close this year's Latin American Culture Week presented by PAMAR, also to feature David Gonzalez, Pedro Giraudo Sextet, and Dock Sud Flamboyan Theater @ the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center 104 Suffolk St. NYC (between Delancey and Rivington Lower East Side Manhattan) Tickets $15, with wine and coffee tasting sponsored by Wines of Argentina and Nescafe Clásico LACW

Folklore Urbano Orchestra @ the Arts Exchange "Arts at the X" Friday, November 19th, 8pm We've been invited back by ArtsWestchester, this time with the full band The Arts Exchange 31 Mamaroneck Ave. White Plains, NY Tickets or call 914.428.4220 x223

Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions: Nov. 20

For over 65 years, the New York Folklore Society (NYFS) has held an annual conference. This year, NYFS collaborates with NYU's Latino Studies and Latin American Studies Departments to encourage young scholars to continue their studies and become active contributors to the fields of folklore, ethnomusicology, anthropology and more.
Join us on November 20th at NYU's Cooper Square for papers, performance and conversation on the theme of Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions.
SCHEDULE:
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9-10 a.m. Registration

10-11:45 a.m. Latino Music and the Negotiation of Identities
Guesnerth Josue Perea, AfroColombia NY
Currulao Neoyorquino: Unearthing Afro-Colombian Musical Traditions in New York City
Naomi Sturm, Columbia University
Lo Haces Un Poco Asi y Switch...
Jaime Bofill, University of Arizona
Entre Peruanos: An Ethnographic Film on the Peruvian Community of Tucson
12-1:30 p.m.


1p.m.
Lunch on your own
Annual Meeting of New York Folklore Society (to 12:30)

Film: Conflicto Rumba: The Persistence of Memory
with a discussion with the filmmaker Berta Jottar

1:45-3:15 p.m. Representations and Depictions
Eric Cesar Morales, Indiana University
Do We Need Sombreros to be Chicanos? The Representation of Chicanismo in Television Sitcom
Beatriz Albequerque, Columbia University
Pagan Reminiscence in Christian Commemoration and its Influences in Two Contemporary Performance Artists
Rachel Valentina Gonzalez, Indiana University
"You only turn fifteen once...": Imagining an American Quinceanera
3:15-4:30 p.m.
A Statewide Community Conversation on Latino Folk Culture with Latino community leaders and artists from throughout New York State

4:45-5:30 p.m.
Afro-Latino Perspectives on Folklore
Juan Flores, Director of Latino Studies, NYU

6 p.m. Performance & Discussion
by Raquel Z. Rivera & Ojos de Sofia
6:45 p.m. Reception
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New York University, 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, New York, NY
(4th Avenue at East 5th St)

R Train to 8th Street, walk east on 8th Street & turn right on 4th Ave, which feeds into Cooper Square
6 Train to Astor Place, walk south on 4th Ave to Cooper Square
REGISTRATION: Free for Students! $20 for Members, $25 for Non-Members
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Register Here
NY Folklore Society
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phone: 518-346-7008
email: nyfs@nyfolklore.org
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Tribute to Rafael Hernández

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010

BOBBY SANABRIA AND THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA PRESENT A TRIBUTE HONORING

Rafaél Hernández (1892–1965)
Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra will pay tribute to Puerto Rico’s greatest composer, Maestro Rafaél Hernández, whose works include such masterpieces as Preciosa and Lamento Borincano and who made history as a trumpeter with bandleader James Reese Europe’s 369th Regiment Harlem Hell Fighters band during World War I.

October 22 / 7:30 PM /
Borden Auditorium, Manhattan School of Music

120 Claremont Avenue

(Broadway and W. 122nd St.)

All tickets $5

For tickets call 917-493-4428

(See attachment for more information)

SATURDAY

Walking Tour — "De un pajáro las dos alas"*: 19th Century Caribbean Political Exiles and Revolutionaries • During the latter part of the 19th century, New York City was a key center of political activities for revolutionaries and exiles from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Dr. Ramón E. Betances, Eugenio María de Hostos and José Martí lived and worked in New York as leaders of the independence movements. Joining them were other important political figures, intellectuals and artists from those two Caribbean countries. In the 1880’s and 90’s, this vibrant community of political émigrés was enhanced by the arrival of the tabaqueros , the tobacco workers. This tour will visit the sites where Cuban and Puerto Rican revolutionaries lived, met and shared their struggles for independence from Spanish colonial domination. Although few of the buildings still exist, we will walk through the neighborhoods and reconstruct history through pictures and stories. The tour has been prepared and will be guided by Elena Martínez, a staff folklorist at City Lore, and Orlando José Hernández, a professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College-CUNY.

Saturday October 9th and 23rd, 11:00 am — 1:00 pm
Price : $12; $8 students, seniors, City Lore members
Meeting place : Broadway/Houston subway (F, M, 6). Meet at corner of Houston Street and Broadway, sw corner
For more information or to make reservations : 212.529.1955 x306 or emartinez@citylore.org . Reservations are required. This event is sponsored by City Lore in collaboration with the Center for Puerto Rican Studies.

*This is a line of poetry from Lola Rodríguez de Tio, who was an activist in exile here in the 1890’s.

New York City Bands Tap into Colombian Music Fever

WNYC covers New York Colombian fusion music here and in the following slideshow.

Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea

Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea September 28, 2010 5pm 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor A lecture by Alberto Toscano, exploring the critical role fanaticism plays in forming modern politics and the liberal state, and undermining the idea that liberalism and fanaticism are irrevocably opposed This event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author ofThe Theatre of Production, translator of Alain Badiou's The Century and Logics of Worlds and co-editor of Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings and On Beckett. His most recent book,Fanaticism: The Uses of An Idea, is published by Verso. Co-sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Humanities Initiative.

We are located at: 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor New York, NY 10003 Our telephone: (212) 998-2190 You may contact the Humanities Initiative with any other questions at res349@nyu.edu.

Dancing with the Legendary Cha-Cha Taps

Legacy Series

Dancing with the Legendary Cha-Cha Taps
Dancer Carlos Arroyo

Panel and Slide Show

Speakers: Carlos Arroyo, Carmen Frank , Elena Martínez
Curator: Pedro Juan Hernández

Friday, October 1, 6:00 p.m.
Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College, 8th floor, West Building

R.S.V.P.Rosalie Roman or call 212.772.5714

Bomba & Plena @ Hostos October 6-10

Check http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts/events.html for the full details

The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture proudly presents the tenth anniversary ofBomPlenazo, its biennial celebration of bomba and plena, Puerto Rico's African-rooted music and dance traditions which remain living, breathing and growing expressions of Puerto Ricans on the island and in diaspora communities. BomPlenazo 2010 will focus on bomba and plena as they are practiced in communities in and around the town of Mayagüez on the West Coast of Puerto Rico.

The Hostos Center proudly dedicates BomPlenazo 2010 to Ángel Luis Torruellas, a native of Mayagüez, who is the undisputed dean of pleneros on both the island and the mainland.

Once again, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture joins forces with Centro Cultural Rincón Criollo, our principal and esteemed community partner. Also contributing to this celebration are our friends at the Longwood @ Hostos Art Gallery/Bronx Council on the Arts. We also acknowledge the invaluable contributions of our Hostos Community College partners, the Humanities Department and the Office of International Study, which have collaborated in a Creative Campus Project linking the Center's programming to the College's curriculum.

Las Casitas and Inauguration of the Festival
An updated remounting of the legendary Casitas exhibition produced twenty years ago by the Bronx Council on the Arts. The exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., traveled to Chicago and closed at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1991. This remounting will include elements of the original exhibition, as well as elements (photographs, found objects, video footage and musical instruments) reflecting the history of the legendaryCasita de Chema on Brooke Avenue in the Bronx which, for over 30 years, has served as an important forge and incubator of Puerto Rican culture in the Diaspora.

Pleneando con Los Instantáneos del Rincón Criollo
A community jam lead by the resident plena troupe from La Casita de Chema—plena as it was meant to be played and sung: street-corner style. Bring your instruments!

Los Tambores del Sarao ■ Segunda Quimbamba ■
Tito Cepeda y sus Estudiantes
Anthropoligist/writer Ramón López's group in a presentation opening the festival and honoring the legacy of Efraín Mon Rivera and Ángel Luis Torruellas with commentary by López himself – an ode to the two great pleneros from Mayagüez. ■ From New Jersey, the celebrated family-based bomba y plena ensemble directed by Juan Cartagena ■ Master bomba drummer Tito Cepeda is joined by vocalist Miriam Félix in a special program featuring many of the students Tito has mentored over the years.

Rumbacuembé ■ Alma Moyó
One of the most dynamic and innovative bomba and plena groups in the New York area under the direction of Alex LaSalle, native of the Mayagüez region ■ The powerhouse, multi-generational bomba and plena ensemble from the Moca/Mayagüez area under the direction of Ricky Soler, a rumbero originally from New York City who has instilled his rumba sensibilities to the troupe.

Yagüembé ■ Bambulá
Mayagüez's beloved bomba and plena group, representing several generations of virtuoso practitioners under the direction of the great drummer and dancer Don Papo Alers, whose family is paramount in the traditions ■The New York-based, all-woman bomba and plena troupe under the direction of Norka Nadal, scion of one of the great bomba families of Mayagüez who is joined by family members from Rumbacuembé.

Bomberos, Pleneros y BomPleneros
An afternoon of local and visiting groups, including Bombá-yó, José "Dr. Drum" Ortíz, director ■ Matthew y su Cumbalaya, Matthew González director ■ La Tribu de Juan Usera ■ And, direct from San Francisco, special guests Las Bomberas de la Bahía, the all-woman ensemble under the direction of Denise Solís.

Ángel Luis Torruellas ■ Los Pleneros de la 21 ■
Los Tambores de Félix Alduén
The dean of Puerto Rican pleneros accompanied by a special ensemble under the direction of virtuoso trombonist Papo Vázquez ■ One of the bomba and plena world's great treasures under the direction of National Heritage Fellow Juan Gutiérrez ■ Direct from Mayagüez, the young and dynamic plena ensemble named for the legendary Félix Alduén whose bomba and plena troupe was an incubator for many great practitioners from the region, José "Macho" Millán (grandson of Don Félix), director.

Vente-tú (block party, pig roast and jam)
An afternoon of jamming and continuous performances with all the participants at the revered Casita de Chema on Brook Ave. And 157 St. in the Bronx.

Dancing Bomba
Oct 6, 7, 8 (W, Th, F), 5:30 – 7pm. Dance studio.
Norka Nadal, musical director of Bambulá, will conduct this workshop with her cousin,
Liz Saira Díaz Nadal, a member of the Rumbacuembé ensemble from Mayagüez.

The Art of Maskmaking
Oct 7 (Th), 5:30 pm. Hostos Art Gallery/Project Room
Benny Ayala offers a hands-on workshop on the Ponce style of vejigante mask-making. Appropriate for adults and children 8 and above.

Percussion Instruments
Oct 7 (Th), 5:30 pm. Hostos Art Gallery
Artisan José "Chema" Soto and master bomba and plena practitioner José Riverafrom Los Pleneros de la 21 demonstrate the construction of barriles of bomba andpanderos of plena. (A selection of plena made by Chema are on display in the Longwood@Hostos Gallery.)

Los Pleneros de la 21 present Rumbacuembé…In the House
Oct 8 (F), 10am and 12pm (Venue to be announced)
Los Pleneros de la 21's children's series featuring the young bomba and plenapractitioners in Rumbacuembé (See Thurs pm concert), in an interactive lecture/demonstration for school children. Adm: $5. Reservations required. For info, call 212-427-5221, nellietanco@aol.com

Béisbol and Plena: A Film Showing
Oct 8 (F), 5:30 p.m. Hostos Art Gallery
A showing of Los Indios de mi pueblo, a widely acclaimed documentary concieved and written by Roberto Mercado, which explores the relationship between professional baseball in Mayagüez and plena. Many of the great Puerto Rican players have been accomplished pleneros, including the legendary Mon Rivera.

La Casita Speaks Out
Oct 9 (S), 5:00 p.m. Hostos Art Gallery
Founding members and veterans of Centro Cultural Rincón Criollo (La Casita de Chema) speak out during a panel discussion on the history of La Casita and the role it has played in maintaining Afro-Puerto Rican culture in New York City. Participants will include José "Chema" Soto, Doris Asencio, Alex LaSalle, José Rivera, Norma Cruz and others. Discussion will be moderated by radio personality Felipito Palacios

RIP Max Salazar

A New York original: Latin music DJ, journalist, and connoisseur.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/09/20/129992447/max-salazar-requiem-for-a-historian-journalist-and-fan

NY Folklore Society Graduate Student Conference: Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions

NY Folklore Society Graduate Student Conference
Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions

November 20, 2010
New York University
New York, NY 10012
Call for Proposals


For over 65 years, the New York Folklore Society (NYFS) has held an annual conference, typically with guest speakers, such as master artists and academic scholars, who have addressed a particular theme. This year, in collaboration with NYU’s Latino Studies and Latin American Studies Departments, we invite graduate students to present their work on Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions. In this way, students will be given a platform at a local conference to share their work and connect with other young academics from around the state. The NYFS seeks to encourage young scholars to continue their studies and become active contributors to the fields of folklore, ethnomusicology, anthropology and more.

Theme: Latino Folk Culture and Expressive Traditions
A cumbia group belting-out Colombian tunes at an outdoor cumbiamba, a Peruvian curandero diagnosing a patient through the use of animals, a Mexican family building a Diá de los Muertos altar in their home, a décima verse sung by a Puerto Rican jibaro—all of these are examples of Latino Expressive Traditions. While some of these forms have roots in African traditions and others have roots in Indigenous traditions, all are considered Latino Expressive Traditions or Folk Arts. These traditions speak to what Latinos say, believe, make, know and do---things that they first learned from their families and community.

The length and breadth of Latino traditions literally covers two continents; and transnational migration to major US cities such as Miami, Chicago, San Antonio, Newark and New York have ensured that the impact of Latino culture continues to be profound. We support papers which explore the topic of Latino Expressive Traditions from both the homeland perspective and immigrant perspective. We particularly encourage papers that address Latino traditions in New York’s tri-state area.

Students can cover any number of topics related to traditional performing arts, materials arts, vernacular culture, sacred arts, etc. as long as the research is with a particular Latino group. While attendees should be graduate students from any academic program; they do not have to major in folklore or Latino studies. Participants can be ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, historians, etc.

Questions? Please contact: Dr. Ellen McHale, nyfs@nyfolklore.org, 518-346-7008

Una Conversation with Totó la Momposina 6/15 @ Harbor Conservatory

Date:	Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time:	5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:	Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts, 3rd floor theatre, corner of 104th St. and 5th Ave. in Manhattan, enter through doors of El Museo del Barrio on 5th AVe.
Street:	1230 5th Avenue
City/Town:	New York, NY
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A CONVERSATION WITH
LEGENDARY COLOMBIAN VOCALIST
TOTO LA MOMPOSINA and her son and musical director
MARCO VINICIO OYAGA
MODERATED BY PIANIST/COMPOSER PABLO MAYOR

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

******Admission is $10. Seating for A Conversation with Toto is limited, to reserve a seat please contact: Pablo or Anna Mayor, at folkloreurbano@earthlink.net.

http://www.encuentrodemusicoscolombianosennuevayork.com/

El Barrio/East Harlem – Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts & the Raices Latin Music Museum are pleased to host A Conversation with Legendary Colombian Vocalist Toto la Momposina moderated by pianist/composer Pablo Mayor on Tuesday, June 15th at 5:OO pm in the Third Floor Theater located at One East 104th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Admission is $10. Pablo Mayor is the founder and Artistic Director of the annual Encuentro Festival of Colombian Musicians in New York City scheduled for June 18 and 19, 2010 at El Museo del Barrio.

In this informal dialogue, Colombia’s foremost vocalist will discuss her career, and her music which brings together the music of three races, indigenous porro, puya and gaita with Afro-Latin cumbia, mapale and sexteto. Toto, whose given name is Sonia Bazanta Vides was born in the northern Colombian village of Talaigua, in the island of Mompos. As its name suggests, Talaigua was once an Indigenous land. The Spanish invasion five hundred years ago forced the population inland. "The music I play has its roots in mixed race," she explains. "The flutes are pre-Columbian, the drums of course are from Africa, and the guitar from the conquisadors." However, she points out that the Spanish guitar actually has its roots in Moorish Africa.
"However, I don't think of it as `folklore'," adds Toto. "To me, folklore means something that is dead, in a museum. Traditional music, music from the old days is alive." There probably isn't a single person who has done more to revitalize the music of Northern Colombia's shores. In 1993, she recorded the landmark album, "La Candela Viva" for Peter Gabriel's RealWorld label and ever since has been busy performing at the world's top music festivals.
She is a rare performer whose energetic and passionate recordings capture the energy of her live performances. With a fiery voice and a remarkable spontaneous wit, whether she is leading flute and percussion driven porros or brass section and guitar led Afro-Latin cumbias and sextetos, Toto La Momposina uses her torrid vocal power to make sure that there her audience is out of their seats and onto the dance floor, ready to get a taste of some of the most evocative music on the planet.
“We are excited to be able to partner with long time faculty member Pablo Mayor, on this historic conversation with one of Colombia’s foremost artists,” said Nina Olson, Director of External Affairs. Our focus on Afro-Caribbean music dovetails so perfectly with that of Colombia as many of Toto la Momposina’s songs sound a bit Cuban, it is for good reason.” Through the 19th century, there were huge waves of Cuban immigration along the northern Caribbean Colombian shores near Baranquilla. These slaves brought with them Cuban music, which led to the development of the sexteto, Colombia's cousin to Cuba's son. In addition, while Salsa was born among Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Dominicans in New York City it spread to Colombia. Native salsa groups like Fruko y sus Tesos and labels that recorded them like Discos Fuentes emerged. Artists like Joe Arroyo followed, inventing a distinctively Colombian form of salsa.

Afro-Colombian drum intensive @ Harbor Conservatory/Marco Vinicio Oyaga

Start Time:	Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 3:00pm
End Time:	Friday, June 18, 2010 at 5:00pm
Location:	Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts, corner of 104th St. and 5th Ave. in Manhattan, enter through doors of El Museo del Barrio on 5th AVe.
Street:	1230 5th Avenue

Description

Drum workshops with Toto la Momposina's musical director, son, and master drummer Marco Vinicio Oyaga

http://www.encuentrodemusicoscolombianosennuevayork.com/

June 15th-18th, @ Harbor Conservatory
Tuesday, June 15-Friday, June 18 3-5pm
$15/workshop $50 for all 4 workshops, selected participants will perform at 4pm as a part of the Encounter of Colombian Musicians in New York festival and El Museo's Target Free Super Sabados
RSVP-folkloreurbano@earthlink.net

Learn the African roots of cumbia and other rhythms like porro, fandango, and puya from Colombia's atlantic coast. Selected workshop participants will play and participate in a culminating performance in conjunction with El Museo del Barrio's Super Sabado Target Free Saturdays on June 19th event and Pablo Mayor's "VII Encounter of Colombian Musicians in NY"

La Cumbiamba NY en la radio

http://culture.wnyc.org/articles/music-hub/2010/jun/01/soundcheck-sessions-la-cumbiamba-eneye/

New Yorkers can't seem to get enough cumbia. The sauntering beat from coastal Colombia is everywhere these days, from the Barbés back room to steamy weekly dance parties at Santos Party House. The globetrotting musician DJ/rupture weighed in with his take on cumbia earlier this year. But while bass-heavy cumbia remixes abound, there is only one group in New York band that offers a taste of an old-school cumbia block party, La Cumbiamba eNeYé.

"We play Afro-Colombian music with a twist of New York," bandleader Martin Vejarano told John Schaefer on WNYC's Soundcheck.

The band's sound and instrumentation emulates the style of the so-called cumbiambas that play open-air festivals in Colombia, but, according to Martin, they bring elements of jazz and rock into the mix.

The band also performs in an even more traditional format, using only the flutes and drums found in the original cumbia developed by Afro-Colombians centuries ago.

The nine members of La Cumbiamba eNeYé crammed into the Soundcheck studio for a live performance. They played selections from their debut two-CD album, La Palma, replete with clarinets, trumpets, and plenty of percussion.

VII ENCOUNTER OF COLOMBIAN MUSICIANS IN NEW YORK /VII ENCUENTRO DE MÚSICOS COLOMBIANOS EN NUEVA YORK

Encounter | Encuentro

Seventh Annual Festival to feature New York’s Renowned Colombian Musical Ensembles

NEW YORK, NY – June 18-19, 2010
El Museo del Barrio
Friday and Saturday, June 18-19: ticketed showcases, 6pm-midnight
Saturday, June 19: Target FREE Super Sabados, 1-4pm
Tickets:
One evening pass:
At the door: $30.00, in advance: $25.00
Students with ID: $20.00 (ID required))
Children (12 and under): $15 (ID required)

The seventh annual Encounter of Colombian Musicians in New York, to feature nearly 20 of New York’s renowned Colombian musical ensembles as well as special guests from Colombia, will convene upon one of NYC’s prestigous cultural institutions this year, turning Harlem’s El Museo del Barrio into a two-day center for Colombian music and culture on Manhattan’s upper east-side. This celebrated event will highlight Colombia’s musical treasures, its rhythms like cumbia, currulao, vallenato, and bambuco, among countless others, on the eve of the Bicentennial year of Colombian independence.

Marta Gómez

The Encounter, or Encuentro, continues to inspire, educate, and awe its audiences with its varied artist showcases, ranging from the poetry of Marta Gómez, to the fire of virtuoso percussionist Samuel Torres, to the pure joy of the Afro-Colombian music of Diego Obregon’s marimba de chonta, to the more subtle sounds of Spanish-derived Andean guitar music this year featuring Plectro Trio direct from Colombia. Dance bands like La Cumbiamba eNeYe, Pablo Mayor’s renowned orchestra Folklore Urbano, and more jazz-oriented and avant-garde veterans like Hector Martignon and Lucía Pulido, reveal how Colombian music has taken its place at the forefront of the world music scene here in New York City and beyond.

Encuentro highlights the finest contemporary and traditional Colombian music, brought together on the same stage for one of New York’s distinct “hot ticket” events. Encuentro developed from an all-day event organized in Bogotá in 1998, when bandleader Pablo Mayor was directing the jazz program at the Universidad Javeriana. Mayor had students present music utilizing Colombian rhythms and melodies, with results so productive and enjoyable that Mayor made it the model when organizing a New York event in 2003.

Bongo Player

That first Encuentro took place during a visit by the Gaiteros of San Jacinto, paying homage to that group’s storied history playing Colombian folkloric music and showcasing talented acts such as singer Lucía Pulido, jazz pianist Hector Martignón, the dance bands Folklore Urbano and La Cumbiamba eNeYe, and Iván Benavides. Thus was born an annual event uniting the work of Colombian musicians in New York, bringing them before an international audience of all ages, eager to appreciate the beauty and diversity of this unique culture.

The VII Encounter of Colombian Musicians in New York will feature two evening ticketed showcases, as well as a free afternoon of educational workshop-presentations and a lecture by a leading ethnomusicologist as a part of El Museo’s Target FREE Super Sabados Saturday event. The artist showcases will feature:

In Concert

Dance Orchestras: La Cumbiamba eNeYe, Pablo Mayor-Folklore Urbano,
Gregorio Uribe Big Band, Harold Gutiérrez

Singers: Lucía Pulido, Marta Gómez, Johanna Castañeda

Jazz: Hector Martignón, Samuel Torres, Ricardo Gallo-Tierra de Nadie,
Carlos Renjifo-Citizens of the World (from Dallas, TX)

Folkloric/Atlantico/Pacifico/Andean: Rebolú, Diego Obregón-Grupo Chonta,
Plectro Trio (special guests from Colombia)

Andean/Guitar-based Originals: Alejandro Flórez-Tibaguí,
Daniel Reyes & Parias Ensemble

Jazz-Rock: Sebastián Cruz and the Cheap Landscape Trio

El Museo

VII ENCOUNTER OF COLOMBIAN MUSICIANS IN NEW YORK /
VII ENCUENTRO DE MÚSICOS COLOMBIANOS EN NUEVA YORK

Friday, June 18, 6 PM – 12 AM
*Saturday, June 19, 6 PM – 12 AM
*1 – 4 PM (Target FREE Super Sabados)

El Museo Del Barrio
1230 East 5th Avenue (at 104th Street)
New York, NY 10029
Phone: (212) 831-7272
Website: www.elmuseo.org

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Col Workshops spring 2010
April 14th, 7-8:30pm, Queens Museum of Art, Opening Event & Reception:
Pablo Mayor presents a traditional music and dance tour of Colombia. Free!
Pablo Mayor presentará Estampas de Colombia, un tour de música y baile tradicional por Colombia. Gratis!

April 21st, 7-8:30pm, Queens Museum of Art:
Martin Vejarano presents the unique sounds of the gaita flute from the Atlantic coast; and Diego Obregón
offers marimba music of Colombia's Pacific coast. Free!
Martin Vejarano presentará los sonidos únicos de la gaita, una flauta de la Costa Atlántica de Colombia; y Diego Obregón ofrecerá música de marimba de la costa del Pacífico Colombiano. Gratis!

May 6th, 7-8:30pm, El Taller Latino Americano:
Ronald Polo explores of the percussion sounds of the Atlantic coast; and Johanna Castañeda presents a music workshop with cuatro from Colombia's plains. Suggested donation $5.
Ronald Polo ofrece una exploración de percusión de la costa Atlántica; y maestra del cuatro, Johanna Castañeda presentará un taller sobre música llanera. Donación sugerida $5.

May 13th, 7-8:30pm, El Taller Latino Americano:
Rafael Gomez & Guillermo Penate explore the vallenata sounds of Colombia's north coast; and Daniel Fetecua Soto presents dances from throughout Colombia. Suggested donation $5.
Rafael Gómez & Guillermo Penate exploran el sonido vallenata de la costa norte de Colombia y Daniel Fetecua Soto presentará varias danzas de distintas regiones de Colombia. Donación sugerida $5.

June 16th, 7-8:30pm, Queens Museum of Art, Closing Event & Reception:
Rafael Leal Ramirez demonstrates traditional Colombian rhythms for the drum set; and Andrés Garcia presents traditional Andean music for tiple, flauta and bass. Free!
Rafael Real Ramírez ofrecerá una demostración de los ritmos tradicionales colombianos en batería y Andrés García presentará música tradicional Andina para tiple, flauta y bajo. Gratis!
Directions/ Direcciones:
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To QMA: Take the #7 Train and exit at the Willets Point/Mets Stadium stop. Follow the signs for a 10-minute walk through the park, or walk downstairs on the stadium side and our FREE Trolley will take you through the park to QMA.
To El Taller Latino Americano: Take the #1 Train to 103rd Street and walk to 2710 Broadway.

QMA: está en el parque Flushing Meadow Corona Park. Tome el tren #7 hasta la parada Willets Point/Shea Stadium. Siga los rótulos hacia el museo, la caminata toma 10 minutos a través park, o baje las gradas de la parada y tome el Trolley GRATIS que le llevará al QMA.
El Taller Latino Americano: El Taller está ubicado en 2710 Broadway, en el Upper West Side de Manhattan tome el tren #1 a 103rd Street.

Information/ Información:
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212-571-1555 ext 27
gmhamilton@ctmd.org
Our Collaborators/ Con la colaboracion de QMA y El Taller Latino Americano:
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Queens Museum of Art, QMA is dedicated to presenting the highest quality visual arts and educational programming for people in the New York metropolitan area, and particularly for the residents of Queens, a uniquely diverse ethnic, cultural and international community. QMA is located in Flushing Meadow Corona Park. For more information go to: www.queensmuseum.org

El Taller Latino Americano was founded in New York City in 1979 to bridge the distance between Latin Americans and North Americans through the language of art and the art of language. El Taller is located at 2710 Broadway, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. For more information go to: www.tallerlatino.org

Queens Museum of Art, QMA se dedica a la presentación de programas de artes visuales y programas educativos de alta calidad para los residentes del area metropolitan de New York y específicamente para los residentes de Queens, una comunidad internacional de única diversidad étnica y cultural. QMA se ubica en el parque Flushing Meadow Corona Park. Para mayor información: www.queensmuseum.org

El Taller Latino Americano se fundó en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1979 para crear puentes entre las comunidades Latino Americanas y Norte Americanas a través del lenguaje de las artes y del arte del lenguaje. Para mayor información: www.tallerlatino.org
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Major support for this program was provided to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance by the National Endowment for the Arts and American Express Company. Additional support was provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Carnegie Corporation of NY, Con Edison, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Hearst Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Scherman Foundation, and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
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LIVE from the NYPL: TACTILE SOUND & THE PURSUIT OF SILENCE IN A NOISY WORLD

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum (Map and directions)
April 9, 2010 7:00 PM EDT
$25 General Admission, $15 library donors, seniors + students with valid ID
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ASL interpretation, Realtime (CART) captioning, and assistive listening devices will be provided.

PART I. ON THE PURSUIT OF SILENCE IN A NOISY WORLD

GEORGE PROCHNIK in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Through his book, In Pursuit of Silence : Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, George Prochnik explores the benefits of decluttering our sonic world. Speaking with doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and citizens, Prochnik examines what gets lost when we can no longer find quiet. Some of the characters he's encountered on the road include:
• An architect pioneering a new kind of silent architecture in collaboration with the Deaf community at Gallaudet University.
• A special operations soldier in Afghanistan (and former guitarist for Nirvana) who places silence at the heart of survival in war.
• A sound engineer for shopping malls who ensures that the stores we visit never stop their auditory seductions.
• A group of commuters who successfully revolted against piped-in music at Grand Central Station.

PART II. SOUND EXCITEMENT: ARTISTS & SCIENTISTS ON THE HEARD & UNHEARD
Artist
• Wendy Jacob presents Waves and Signs, a performative structure designed to carry low-frequency vibrations that are played through the floor. By sitting, standing, or lying on the stucture, all audience members will be able to experience tactile sound through their bodies- for example: the vibrations produced by spiny shrimp, and, the vibrations communicated between elephants through the ground.

Scientists
• Sheila Patek probes the physical experience of sound in water with Sound Sensations in the Sea.
• Robert Sirvage examines the everyday experience of the visual and tactile world with Deaf Space.
• Caitlin O’Connell Rodwell presents the mechanisms used by elephants to communicate sound with Elephant Rumbles: Communication through the Vibrotactile Sense.
• Hansel Bauman discusses the Deaf Space Project at Gallaudet University.

This evening is funded, in part, by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
ABOUT GEORGE PROCHNIK
George Prochnik is the author of Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam & The Purpose of American Psychology and In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise.

ABOUT PAUL HOLDENGRABER
Paul Holdengräber is the Director of Public Programs - LIVE from the NYPL- for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.

ABOUT WENDY JACOB
Wendy Jacob is an artist, lecturer and Research Scientist in the Program in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT.

ABOUT SHEILA PATEK
Sheila Patek is a biologist who probes the physical experience of sound in water, the hearing mechanisms of spiny lobsters, mantis shrimp, and other acoustic organisms thought to be lacking “true” ears. Sheila is Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

ABOUT ROBERT SIRVAGE
Robert Sirvage is a designer and researcher at Gallaudet University. Sirvage examines the social and physical rhythms of everyday experience within the context of the highly visual and tactile world of deaf space.

ABOUT CAITLIN O'CONNELL RODWELL
Expert on elephant communication, Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell studies the mechanisms that elephants employ to communicate over long distances, both in the air and in the ground. Caitlin is a biologist on the faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery.

ABOUT HANSEL BAUMAN
Hansel Bauman is an architect, and the director of Deaf Space Project at Gallaudet University.

This event is located in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library. Enter on 42nd Street near 5th Avenue and proceed to Celeste Bartos Forum.

Box office opens at 5:00pm, Doors open at 6:15pm, Program begins at 7:00pm. Arrive early for seats!