Things To Do in NYC in April 2025

APRIL 2025

Latin Things To Do in NYC in April 2024

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Things To Do in NYC in April 1-7, 2024

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Monday, April 1, 2024

American Festival

Arab American Heritage Month celebrates Arab culture and the contributions of Arab Americans to the culture and prosperity of the United States.

Haitian American Jazz

Brooklyn Haitian Melanie Charles, sings jazz; at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Monday, April 1, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. From $30. 🇭🇹

Italian American Vintage Hot Jazz

Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theatre at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). $25. 🇮🇹

Salsa Dance

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican Spoken Word

The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Festival

World Autism Awareness Day, a United Nations day on April 2 shows that love is the answer. In Puerto Rico, we invite autistic kids to drum and dance, and they do so perfectly. In Argentina, tango has long been used as therapy for autistic kids. Kids dance so perfectly. In Spain, we teach autistic kids to dance flamenco, and they do so beautifully.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

New Film Festival

OPENING NIGHT
The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Disability Film Festival

OPENING NIGHT
The ReelAbilities Film Festival New York 2024 red carpet opening features Whoopi Goldberg and a screening of “Ezra,” starring Bobby Cannavale, Robert De Niro, William Fitzgerald, and Rose Byrne; at The Times Center in the Times Square Theater District on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 6pm. From $150. The Festival continues at founding venue Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan in the Upper West Side and all over New York City; from April 3-10, 2024. Paid and free screenings. 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇺🇸

Italian Baroque Music

Spanish conductor and composer Jordi Savall leads his Baroque music ensemble Hespèrion XXI in Le Nuove Musiche: The Baroque Revolution in Europe, a program of Frescobaldi, Kapsberger, de’ Cavalieri, Falconiero, and more; in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 7:30pm. 🇪🇸 🇮🇹

Música Popular Brasileira (MPB)

Caetano Veloso “Meu Coco” brings his 2021 MPB album, for the World Music Institute, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Wednesday-Thursday, April 3-4, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇧🇷

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

Contemporary Art Fair

Artexpo New York is at Pier 36 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; with an Opening Night Preview on Thursday, April 4, 2024 from 5-8pm, $50; followed by the fair on Friday-Sunday, April 5-7, 2024. $30.

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Puerto Rican House Dance Party

New York Puerto Rican DJ Eli Escobar spins house, techno, disco, and hip hop in the Main Room; at the House of Yes dance club in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Friday, April 5, 2024 from 10pm – 4am. From Free to $41. 🇵🇷 🇩🇴

Música Popular Brasileira (MPB)

Caetano Veloso “Meu Coco” brings his 2021 MPB album, for the World Music Institute, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇧🇷

African American Jazz

Kenny Garrett and Sounds From the Ancestors with Cuban vocalist Melvis Santa play jazz; at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village; from Thursday-Sunday, April 4-7, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $35. bluenotejazz.com 🇺🇸 🇨🇺

Trinidadian New York Hip Hop

Nicki Minaj “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” brings the fiercely playful Trinidadian New York rapper to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 8pm. From $73. 🇹🇹 🗽

Tango Dance

Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷

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Friday, April 5, 2024

Major League Baseball

HOME OPENER with Commemorative Ticket
New York Yankees vs Toronto Blue Jays is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Friday, April 5, 2024 at 1:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

French Film

“The Beast” (La Bête, 2023), by Bertrand Bonello, the science fiction about a young woman who has her DNA (and past life memories) removed, only to realize her fate is intertwined with a young incel man, opens at Film at Lincoln Center; on Friday, April 5, 2024. In Italian and French with English subtitles. 🇫🇷

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Afro-Cuban Alternative

OKAN plays their fun Afro-Cuban alternative; at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on Friday, April 5, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇨🇺

Filipino Pop Rock

Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS World Tour” with opener The Breeders, brings Filipino pop rock to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, April 5, 2024 at 7:30pm. Also Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday. 🇵🇭

African American Jazz

Kenny Garrett and Sounds From the Ancestors with Cuban vocalist Melvis Santa play jazz; at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village; Friday, April 5, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $35. bluenotejazz.com 🇺🇸 🇨🇺

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Toronto Blue Jays is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 7:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Filipino Pop Rock

Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS World Tour” with opener The Breeders, brings Filipino pop rock to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 7:30pm. 🇵🇭

Major League Soccer

New York City Football Club vs Atlanta United is Major League Soccer at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $23. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾

Puerto Rican Salsa

Gilberto Santa Rosa Auténtico Tour brings “El Caballero de la Salsa” to Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center; on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 8pm. From $99. 🇵🇷

African American Jazz

Kenny Garrett and Sounds From the Ancestors with Cuban vocalist Melvis Santa play jazz; at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $35. bluenotejazz.com 🇺🇸 🇨🇺

Dominican Comedy

El Dominicano es un Chiste brings old timers Jochy Santos, Felipe Polanco “Boruga,” Cuquín Victoria, and young talent Carlos Sánchez and Juan Carlos Pichardo; to Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday April 6, 2024 at 8pm. From $43. 🇩🇴

Italian Spanish Pop

Laura Pausini sings Italian and Spanish-language pop at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 8:30pm. From $102. 🇮🇹 🇪🇸

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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Major League Baseball

CALENDAR DAY
New York Yankees vs Toronto Blue Jays is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 1:35pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Tango Dance

Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷

African American Jazz

Kenny Garrett and Sounds From the Ancestors with Cuban vocalist Melvis Santa play jazz; at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $35. bluenotejazz.com 🇺🇸 🇨🇺

Latin Jazz

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺

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Things To Do in NYC in April 8-14, 2024

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Monday, April 8, 2024

Mother Nature

Today’s total solar eclipse will be visible around Buffalo, New York. Don’t look at the sun without verified protection purchased from a vendor you trust. The risk is too great.

Latin Festival

International Romani Day celebrates the community that founded Spanish flamenco, on April 8.

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

SOLAR ECLIPSE DAY T-SHIRT
New York Yankees vs Miami Marlins is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Monday, April 8, 2024 at 2:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Italian American Vintage Hot Jazz

Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theatre at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). $25. 🇮🇹

Salsa Dance

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican Spoken Word

The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷

Filipino Pop Rock

Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS World Tour” with opener The Breeders, brings Filipino pop rock to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Monday April 8, 2024 at 7:30pm. 🇵🇭

Latin Jazz and Salsa

Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri, one of New York’s elder jazzmen, plays Latin jazz and salsa in his Spring Residency; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village on Monday, April 8, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $35. 🇵🇷

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Muslim Festival

Eid al-Fitr, the feast with family and friends that ends Ramadan, is expected on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. ☪️

Chilean Jazz

Melissa Aldana, Grammy-nominated tenor saxophonist and composer plays jazz; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. From $20. 🇨🇱

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Miami Marlins is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Filipino Pop Rock

Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS World Tour” with opener The Breeders, brings Filipino pop rock to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7:30pm. 🇵🇭

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024, has a kick-off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 2:40pm; and screens international Latin films at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; from Friday-Thursday, April 12-18, 2024. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Chilean Jazz

Melissa Aldana, Grammy-nominated tenor saxophonist and composer plays jazz; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. From $20. 🇨🇱

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Miami Marlins is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 7:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz

Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente play samba jazz (bossa nova) from their 2023 album “Cometa;” at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. Through Sunday. From $25. 🇧🇷

African American Ballet

OPENING NIGHT
Dance Theatre of Harlem celebrates 55 years of Black Ballet from Arthur Mitchell to Robert Garland, with William Forsyth’s “Blake Works IV (The Barre Project), Garland’s “Return” a soul ballet set to James Brown and Aretha Franklin, plus New York Premieres of Robert Bondara’s “Take Me With You” a contemporary pas de deux set to Radiohead, and Balanchine’s classical”Pas de Dix;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from April 11-14, 2024. From $45. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹

Puerto Rican Reggaeton Pop

OPENING NIGHT
Bad Bunny “Most Wanted Tour” brings Puerto Rican reggaeton pop to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 8pm. From $357. Through Saturday. 🇵🇷

Tango Dance

Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷

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Friday, April 12, 2024

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 opens with “La Mujer Salvaje” by Alán González at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Friday, April 12, 2024 at 6pm followed by an After Party. The Festival continues through fromThursday, April 18, 2024. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

African American Ballet

GALA PERFORMANCE
Dance Theatre of Harlem celebrates 55 years of Black Ballet from Arthur Mitchell to Robert Garland, with William Forsyth’s “Blake Works IV (The Barre Project), Garland’s “Return” a soul ballet set to James Brown and Aretha Franklin, plus New York Premieres of Robert Bondara’s “Take Me With You” a contemporary pas de deux set to Radiohead, and Balanchine’s classical”Pas de Dix;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday April 12, 2024 at 6:30pm. From $45. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹

Big Band Jazz With African, Brazilian, Cuban, Nuyorican Rhythms

Carlos Henriquez directs the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, in a “Journey Through Jazz” through clave, and Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Bebop, and Nuyorican contributions to jazz; in The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday, April 12, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm, and Saturday April 13, 2024 at 4:30pm & 7pm. Pay-what-you-choose from $10. jazz.org 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

African Diaspora Alternative Folk

Singer songwriter Leyla McCalla plays alternative folk music of the African Diaspora from her fifth album “Sun Without the Heat,” including Afrobeat, Ethiopian, Brazilian Tropicalismo, and American folk and blues; in Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Friday, April 12, 2024 at 7pm (6pm doors). $38. 🇭🇹 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇪🇹

Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz

Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente play samba jazz (bossa nova) from their 2023 album “Cometa;” at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday, April 12, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. From $25. 🇧🇷

Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs Kansas City Royals; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Friday, April 12, 2024, at 7:10pm . 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican Reggaeton Pop

Bad Bunny “Most Wanted Tour” brings Puerto Rican reggaeton pop to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Friday, April 12, 2024 at 8pm. From $357. 🇵🇷

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

New Film Festival

The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 screens international Latin movies at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan through Thursday, April 18, 2024. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

Major League Baseball

DWIGHT GOODEN BOBBLEHEAD PROMOTION
New York Mets vs Kansas City Royals; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 1:40pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican and African American Big Band Jazz

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band; featuring Antoinette Montague, Jennifer Jade Ledesna, and Janis Siegal (Manhattan Transfer); celebrate Duke Ellington’s April birthday and the legacy of the Harlem Hellfighters; with jazz in the new Bronx Music Hall in Melrose, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 13, 2024, from 4-7pm. $20. 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Big Band Jazz With African, Brazilian, Cuban, Nuyorican Rhythms

Carlos Henriquez directs the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, in a “Journey Through Jazz” through clave, and Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Bebop, and Nuyorican contributions to jazz; in The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Saturday April 13, 2024 at 4:30pm & 7pm. Pay-what-you-choose from $10. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz

Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente play samba jazz (bossa nova) from their 2023 album “Cometa;” at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. From $25. 🇧🇷

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Tania León Curates Cuban, Italian, Mexican, and South African Contemporary Chamber Music

Ensemble Modern, the Frankfurt-based contemporary chamber ensemble, plays international composers curated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tania León including her seminal works “Indígena” and “Rítmicas,” American Mexican composer Conlon Nancarrow’s “Studies for Player Piano,” and new work by South African composer Andile Khumalo, and American Italian composer Christopher Trapani; in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $54. carnegiehall.org 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦

This is part of Pulitzer Prize-winner Tania León’s curation as the 2023-2024 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall.

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Haitian French American Jazz

Cécile McLorin Salvant, the Haitian, French, American jazz singer who is one of the great jazz voices of her generation, swings Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40. 🇭🇹 🇫🇷

African American Ballet

Dance Theatre of Harlem celebrates 55 years of Black Ballet from Arthur Mitchell to Robert Garland, with William Forsyth’s “Blake Works IV (The Barre Project), Garland’s “Return” a soul ballet set to James Brown and Aretha Franklin, plus New York Premieres of Robert Bondara’s “Take Me With You” a contemporary pas de deux set to Radiohead, and Balanchine’s classical”Pas de Dix;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday April 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $45. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹

Major League Soccer

BLACK EXCELLENCE CELEBRATION
New York City Football Club vs New England Revolution is Major League Soccer at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $28. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾

Major League Soccer

Pop-its Keychain Giveaway
New York Red Bulls vs Chicago Fire FC is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican Reggaeton Pop

Bad Bunny “Most Wanted Tour” brings Puerto Rican reggaeton pop to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 8pm. From $357. 🇵🇷

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Dominican Parade Scholarships

National Dominican Day Parade Scholarship Applications are due on Sunday, April 14, 2024. It takes five minutes to apply. 🇩🇴

Major League Baseball

DWIGHT GOODEN NUMBER RETIREMENT CEREMONY
New York Mets vs Kansas City Royals; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Sunday, April 14, 2024, at 1:40pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

New Film Festival

CLOSING NIGHT
The 53rd New Directors New Films 2024 film festival screens new films that push the envelope at Film at Lincoln Center in the Upper West Side, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday-Sunday, April 3-14, 2024. From $18 at Film at Lincoln Center. $28 at MoMA. Packages available. 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

African American Ballet

Dance Theatre of Harlem celebrates 55 years of Black Ballet from Arthur Mitchell to Robert Garland, with William Forsyth’s “Blake Works IV (The Barre Project), Garland’s “Return” a soul ballet set to James Brown and Aretha Franklin, plus New York Premieres of Robert Bondara’s “Take Me With You” a contemporary pas de deux set to Radiohead, and Balanchine’s classical”Pas de Dix;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday April 14, 2024 at 3pm. From $45. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇮🇹

Jewish Brazilian Jazz

Clarinetist Anat Cohen and her Quartetinho play sweet Brazilian jazz for a well-being concert; in the Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 5pm. $18. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷

National Women’s Soccer League

HOME OPENER
Gotham FC vs KC Current is at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey (Newark); on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 6pm. From $20. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇪🇸

Argentine Tango Dance

Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷

Trinidadian Soca

Machel Montano sings Trinidadian soca; at UBS Arena in Elmont, Long Island; on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 7pm. From $109. 🇹🇹

Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz

Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente play samba jazz (bossa nova) from their 2023 album “Cometa;” at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. From $25. 🇧🇷

Latin Jazz

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 screens its Centerpiece film “Nelsito’s World” by Fernando Pérez at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 8:40pm. Continues through Thursday. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

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Things To Do in NYC in April 15-21, 2024

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Monday, April 15, 2024

Latin Festival

It’s NYC Immigrant Heritage Week, a commemoration of April 15, 1907, the day when the most immigrants ever, passed through Ellis Island.

African American Baseball

Jackie Robinson Day celebrates the day Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. 🇺🇸

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 screens international Latin movies at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan through Thursday, April 18, 2024. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

Italian American Vintage Hot Jazz

Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theatre at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). $25. 🇮🇹

Salsa Dance

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪

Major League Baseball

JACKIE ROBINSON DAY
New York Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Monday, April 15, 2024, at 7:10pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican Spoken Word

The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 screens international Latin movies at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan through Thursday, April 18, 2024. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

Queens Film Festival

WELCOME MIXER
The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 opens with a welcome night mixer at Sac’s Place in Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens at 6:30pm. The festival screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

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Afro-Cuban Jazz

Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas sing Afro-Cuban jazz in the Multipurpose Room at the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library; on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 6:15pm. FREE with rsvp. bklynlibrary.org 🇨🇺

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Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at 7:10pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Latin Wine

Malbec World Day is an international celebration of the Argentine wine with French roots, on April 17. 🇦🇷

Mexican Ranchera Legend

Chavela Vargas didn’t just sing rancheras, she lived them. Vargas was born in San Joaquín Flores, Costa Rica on April 17, 1919. She ran away to Mexico to find herself. 🇨🇷 🇲🇽

Queens Film Festival

OPENING NIGHT
The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 screens international Latin movies at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan through Thursday, April 18, 2024. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 1:10pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Ballet Scholarship Audition

The 25th Youth America Grand Prix 2024 is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center with: Junior Finals (ages 12-14) on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4pm, from $50; Senior Finals (ages 15-19) on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 8pm, from $50; 25th Anniversary Gala and Dancing with the Stars on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7pm, from $95; and the “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow: Best of 25 Years” Gala on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7pm, from $95.

Brooklyn African Surrealist Jazz Soul

aja monet, the surrealist poet, vocalist, and composer from Brooklyn, brings her jazz soul to Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for Carnegie Hall Citywide; on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 7pm. Free with rsvp. 🇺🇸

Nigerian Afrobeats

Davido “Timeless Tour” brings one of the top afrobeats artists to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 8pm. From $90. 🇳🇬

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Latin Film Festival

The 24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024 screens its Closing Night Film, “Igualada” Juan Mejia’s documentary on Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez; at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 6pm with an After Party and an encore at 8:30pm. From $82. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾

Mexican Rock

División Minúscula plays Mexican rock; at Irving Plaza rock club in Union Square, Manhattan; on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7pm. From $64. 🇲🇽

Venezuelan Jazz

Luisito Quintero, percussionist blends Afro-Venezuelan rhythms with New York jazz; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. From $25. 🇻🇪

Ballet Scholarship Audition Gala

The 25th Youth America Grand Prix 2024 Gala and Dancing with the Stars is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7pm. From $95.

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American Guatemalan, Mexican, Spanish Jazz Fusion

Snarky Puppy, the multiple-Grammy-winning jazz fusion band features four great Latina voices: Silvana Estrada (Mexico), Silvia Pérez-Cruz (Spain), Gaby Moreno (Guatemala), and Fuensanta (Mexico); for the World Music Institute at Kings Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn; on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 8pm. From $35. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇬🇹 🇲🇽 🇪🇸 🇺🇸

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Cuban Rumba, Timba, Jazz

Pedrito Martinez, the world’s first-call rumbero, plays Cuban rumba, timba, and jazz; at Drom in Manhattan’s East Village; on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 8pm (7:30pm doors). From $30. 🇨🇺

Tango Dance

Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷

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Friday, April 19, 2024

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

French Opera

OPENING NIGHT
Catapult Opera and the Greek National Opera, present the American Premiere of “La Ville Morte” (The Dead City), a reconstruction of Nadia Boulanger’s lost opera composed by her last protégé David Conte from a recently discovered piano reduction of the orchestra; produced by Robin Guarino, conducted by Neal Goren and featuring the Talea Ensemble; at NYU Skirball Center at New York University in Greenwich Village; on Friday-Sunday, April 19-21, 2024. $70. 🇫🇷

Ballet Scholarship Audition

The 25th Youth America Grand Prix 2024 “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow: Best of 25 Years” Gala is at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7pm, from $95.

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Tampa Bay Rays is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

African American Contemporary Dance

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company performs “Degga” (1995) created with Max Roach and Toni Morrison; at Harlem Stage in Morningside Heights, West Harlem; on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30pm. Continues tomorrow. From $25. 🇺🇸

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Saturday, April 20, 2024

Latin Music Legend

Tito Puente, “The King of Latin Music” was born in Harlem on April 20, 1923. There’s just one thing we want to say, “Oye, cómo va?” 🇵🇷

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

AARON JUDGE BOBBLEHEAD
New York Yankees vs Tampa Bay Rays is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 1:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Bilingual Children’s Puppet Theatre

Teatro SEA “Ricitos y Los 3 Ositos” (Ricitos and the 3 Bears) is a bilingual Goldilocks story; in the Main Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos College (CUNY) in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 3pm. $10. 🇵🇷

Traditional Flamenco

Nélida Tirado Flamenco Arte 718 dances traditional flamenco at the newly opened Bronx Music Hall in Melrose, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7pm and 8:30pm. $30. 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

African American Contemporary Dance

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company performs “Degga” (1995) created with Max Roach and Toni Morrison; at Harlem Stage in Morningside Heights, West Harlem; on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇺🇸

French Opera

Catapult Opera and the Greek National Opera, present the American Premiere of “La Ville Morte” (The Dead City), a reconstruction of Nadia Boulanger’s lost opera composed by her last protégé David Conte from a recently discovered piano reduction of the orchestra; produced by Robin Guarino, conducted by Neal Goren and featuring the Talea Ensemble; at NYU Skirball Center at New York University in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. $70. 🇫🇷

Major League Soccer

New York City Football Club vs DC United is Major League Soccer at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $29. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Tampa Bay Rays is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 1:35pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

French Opera

Catapult Opera and the Greek National Opera, present the American Premiere of “La Ville Morte” (The Dead City), a reconstruction of Nadia Boulanger’s lost opera composed by her last protégé David Conte from a recently discovered piano reduction of the orchestra; produced by Robin Guarino, conducted by Neal Goren and featuring the Talea Ensemble; at NYU Skirball Center at New York University in Greenwich Village; on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 2pm. $70. 🇫🇷

Spanish Soccer

Watch “El Clásico” Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona, a La Liga match at the Bernabéu in Madrid; with Penya FC Barcelona NYC at Smithfield Hall in Chelsea, or Peña Madridista NYC at the Playwright Irish Pub in the Garment District; on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 3pm. 🇪🇸

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Latin Pop Classics on Harp, Percussion, and Clarinet

Leyenda: Bridget Kibbey harp virtuoso, Colombian Latin Grammy-winning percussionist Samuel Torres, and French clarinetist Louis Arques; plays Latin pop classics by Barros (Colombian folk), D’Rivera (Cuban jazz), Piazzolla (Argentine tango), and more in a way you never heard before; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 5pm. Free. carnegiehall.org 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

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Tango Dance

Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷

Latin Jazz

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺

House Dance Party Block Party Eco-Festival

Earth Love Fest 2024, the house dance party, block party, and eco-festival at House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; is Sunday, April 21, 2024, from 12noon – 7pm. FREE with RSVP.

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Things To Do in NYC in April 22-28, 2024

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Monday, April 22, 2024

Environmental Festival

Earth Day is April 22. The celebration began in 1970. We are running out of time.

Jewish Spring Festival

Passover, the Jewish spring festival, is from sundown on Monday, April 22, 2024 to sundown on Tuesday, April 30. ✡️

Colombian Pop

Shakira “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” comes to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on December 5-6, 2024. On Sale April 22, at 10am. 🇨🇴

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Oakland Athletics is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Monday, April 22, 2024 at 1:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Italian American Vintage Hot Jazz

Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theatre at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). $25. 🇮🇹

Salsa Dance

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican Spoken Word

The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷

Latin Jazz and Salsa

Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri, one of New York’s elder jazzmen, plays Latin jazz and salsa in his Spring Residency; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village on Monday, April 8, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $35. 🇵🇷

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Oakland Athletics is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 7:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Neoclassical Ballet

SEASON OPENING NIGHT
New York City Ballet opens its Spring Season with an All Balanchine program of “Bourrée Fantasque” (1949), “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (1975), “Errante (Formerly Tzigane, 1975), and “Symphony in C” (1947); in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40.

R&B Jazz with Cuban Percussion

José James a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation; sings his R&B jazz, featuring Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; from Tuesday-Sunday, April 23-28, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $30. 🇮🇪 🇵🇦 🇨🇺

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

New York Philharmonic Spring Gala with Gustavo Dudamel, Common, Park, and Williams

New York Philharmonic Spring Gala with Gustavo Dudamel features American rapper Common, South Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park, and Puerto Rican jazz guitarist Bernie Williams #51 (Yankees), playing Shekhar (India), Villa-Lobos (Brazil), Márquez (Mexico), Williams (Puerto Rico), Common (Chicago), and Strauss (Austria); in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7pm. 🇦🇹 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷 🇺🇸 🇻🇪

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Oakland Athletics is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Neoclassical Ballet

New York City Ballet dances an All Balanchine program of “Bourrée Fantasque” (1949), “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (1975), “Errante (Formerly Tzigane, 1975), and “Symphony in C” (1947); in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40.

R&B Jazz with Cuban Percussion

José James a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation; sings his R&B jazz, featuring Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $30. 🇮🇪 🇵🇦 🇨🇺

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Latin Contemporary Dance Gala

Ballet Hispánico celebrates Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro’s Quinceañera (15th Season) with a Gala performance including the World Premiere of his “Buscando a Juan,” inspired by the Met exhibition of Afro-Spanish painter Juan de Pareja, and sancocho (Latin stew); plus Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “Mad’moiselle” exploration of Latin gender identity; and Spaniard Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s “18+1″ celebration of the vulnerability of every artistic endeavor. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 6:30pm. The Gala continues at the Plaza Hotel with dancing to the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. Performances continues through Sunday. From $45. 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇪🇸

Brazilian Bossa Nova Jazz

Vinicius Cantuaria releases an album of Brazilian bossa nova jazz; at Drom in Manhattan’s East Village; on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7pm & 9pm. From $30. 🇧🇷

Major League Baseball

New York Yankees vs Oakland Athletics is Major League Baseball; at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7:05pm. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Spanish, Argentine, and French Violin and Orchestra Classics

Hilary Hahn and Sounds of Spain has the multiple Grammy winning Artist-in-Residence playing Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy,” and Ginastera’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic with Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena. The program includes Spanish reveries by French composers Ravel and Debussy; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Saturday. From $115. 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷

Neoclassical Ballet

New York City Ballet dances an All Balanchine program of “Bourrée Fantasque” (1949), “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (1975), “Errante (Formerly Tzigane, 1975), and “Symphony in C” (1947); in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40.

Spanish Flamenco Pop

Niña Pastori “Camino Tour” brings her Spanish flamenco pop to The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 8pm. From $71. 🇪🇸

R&B Jazz with Cuban Percussion

José James a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation; sings his R&B jazz, featuring Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $30. 🇮🇪 🇵🇦 🇨🇺

Tango Dance

Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷

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Friday, April 26, 2024

Black Comic Book Festival

The 12th Black Comic Book Festival 2024, the SchomCom, presents workshops and a marketplace at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Manhattan; on Friday 26, 2024 from 11am – 6:30pm. The Cosplay Showcase is Saturday. FREE with rsvp. 🇺🇸

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Fine Art Photography Fair

OPENING DAY
The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024, one of New York City’s premiere fine art photography fairs, brings international photo galleries to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, April 26, 2024 from 12-8pm. Through Sunday. $45. 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽

Afro-Caribbean Film Festival

The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series screens a dozen films about Caribbean life. It opens with “The Mali-Cuba Connection” on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6pm; at Teachers College, Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The Festival continues through Sunday, April 28, 2024. $13 per film ($11 students/seniors). 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹

This is the only film festival where we want to watch every movie. The African Diaspora is so beautifully diverse.

South African Jazz

South African trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni and Sausa Experience with American drummer Ronnie Burrage, play jazz ; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 7pm & 9pm. Through Sunday. From $25. 🇿🇦 🇺🇸

African Tango, Spanish Flamenco, and Argentine Tango

Anthony Blackwell Casa de Tango, with Alfonso Cid, Paloma Rios, and Gabriel Gonzalez Tapia from Spain; explore tango’s African, American, and Spanish Flamenco connections in “Canciones de Ida y Vuelta” program at the Bronx Music Hall in Melrose, The Bronx; on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 7pm. $10. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs St. Louis Cardinals; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 7:10pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Latin Contemporary Dance Gala

Ballet Hispánico celebrates Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro’s Quinceañera (15th Season) with the World Premiere of his “Buscando a Juan,” inspired by the Met exhibition of Afro-Spanish painter Juan de Pareja, and sancocho (Latin stew); plus Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “Mad’moiselle” exploration of Latin gender identity; and Spaniard Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s “18+1″ celebration of the vulnerability of every artistic endeavor. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $45. 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇪🇸

Spanish, Argentine, and French Violin and Orchestra Classics

Hilary Hahn and Sounds of Spain has the multiple Grammy winning Artist-in-Residence playing Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy,” and Ginastera’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic with Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena. The program includes Spanish reveries by French composers Ravel and Debussy; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 8pm. From $115. 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷

R&B Jazz with Cuban Percussion

José James a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation; sings his R&B jazz, featuring Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $30. 🇮🇪 🇵🇦 🇨🇺

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Mexican Jazz

Antonio Sánchez; Mexican drummer, 4x Grammy-winner, 3x Modern Drummer jazz drummer of the year, and soundtrack composer (“Birdman”); debuts his new All-Star quintet featuring famed saxophonists Joe Lovano and Chris Potter, pianist Joey Calderazzo, and bassist Larry Grenadier; in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 9pm. From $54. carnegiehall.org 🇲🇽 🇮🇹

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Puerto Rican Spoken Word

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Monthly Grand Slam is at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Friday, April 26, 2024 at 10pm. From $25. 🇵🇷

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Black Comic Book Festival

The 12th Black Comic Book Festival 2024, the SchomCom, presents workshops, a marketplace, and the Cosplay Showcase at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Manhattan; on Friday 26, 2024 from 11am – 6:30pm. The Cosplay Showcase is from 1-5pm. FREE with rsvp. 🇺🇸

Afro-Caribbean Film Festival

The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series screens films about Caribbean life at Teachers College, Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 27, 2024, starting from 12noon to 7:50pm. $13 per film ($11 students/seniors). 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Fine Art Photography Fair

The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024, one of New York City’s premiere fine art photography fairs, brings international photo galleries to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 12-7pm. $45. 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽

Afro-Cuban Jazz

NYU Latin Music Ensemble featuring New York Cuban trumpeter Michael Rodriguez plays Afro-Cuban jazz; at the Blue Note New York jazz club in Greenwich Village; Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 12:30pm (11:30am doors). From $30. 🇨🇺 🇨🇺

French Canadian Puppet Theatre

French Canadian street theater company Tout à Trac performs “Pinocchio,” the fairy tale of a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy; at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, April 27, 2023 at 1pm & 4pm. $20. 🇮🇹 🇨🇦

Latin Contemporary Dance Family Matinee

Ballet Hispánico celebrates Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro’s Quinceañera (15th Season) with an En Familia Matinee, a fun interactive journey through Latin culture; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 2pm. From $45. 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇪🇸

Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs St. Louis Cardinals; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 4:05pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

South African Jazz

South African trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni and Sausa Experience with American drummer Ronnie Burrage, play jazz ; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 7pm & 9pm. From $25. 🇿🇦 🇺🇸

Latin Contemporary Dance

Ballet Hispánico celebrates Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro’s Quinceañera (15th Season) with the World Premiere of his “Buscando a Juan,” inspired by the Met exhibition of Afro-Spanish painter Juan de Pareja, and sancocho (Latin stew); plus Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “Mad’moiselle” exploration of Latin gender identity; and Spaniard Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s “18+1″ celebration of the vulnerability of every artistic endeavor. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $45. 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇪🇸

Spanish Jazz Singer

Marta Sanchez Trio celebrates the Spaniard’s “Perpetual Void” album release; at the Jazz Gallery in NoMad, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. From $25. 🇪🇸

Major League Soccer

New York City Football Club vs Charlotte FC is Major League Soccer at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $28. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾

Major League Soccer

COLLEGE NIGHT ~ Bucket Hat Giveaway
New York Red Bulls vs Vancouver Whitecaps FC is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪

Spanish, Argentine, and French Violin and Orchestra Classics

Hilary Hahn and Sounds of Spain has the multiple Grammy winning Artist-in-Residence playing Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy,” and Ginastera’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic with Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena. The program includes Spanish reveries by French composers Ravel and Debussy; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 8pm. From $115. 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷

R&B Jazz with Cuban Percussion

José James a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation; sings his R&B jazz, featuring Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $30. 🇮🇪 🇵🇦 🇨🇺

Puerto Rican, Panamanian, and Dominican Salsa Romántica

Masters of the 80’s brings Ray de la Paz, Roberto Blades, Raulín Rosendo, and Ray Sepúlveda; to Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday April 27, 2024 at 8pm. From $43. 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇷

Tap and Flamenco Dance

Music From the Sole dances Afro-Brazilian tap and Sonia Olla & Ismael Fernández dance Spanish flamenco; in LeFrak Concert Hall at Kupferberg Center in Flushing, Queens; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 8pm. $30. 🇧🇷 🇪🇸

Mega Mezcla Colombian Puerto Rican Reggaeton & Trap

Mega Mezcla 2024 features Alex Sensation with Myke Towers, Eladio Carrión, Arcángel, Wisin, Mora, Darell, Ryan Castro, Secreto and more reggaeton and Latin trap at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 8pm. From $85. 🇨🇴 🇵🇷

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Sunday, April 28, 2024

Queens Film Festival

The 13th Queens World Film Festival 2024 screens 152 films from 19 countries at the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; from April 17-28, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸

Fine Art Photography Fair

The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024, one of New York City’s premiere fine art photography fairs, brings international photo galleries to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Sunday, April 28, 2024 from 12-5pm. $45. 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽

Afro-Caribbean Film Festival

The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series screens films about Caribbean life at Teachers College, Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, April 27, 2024, starting from 1-6:30pm. $13 per film ($11 students/seniors). 🇧🇸 🇧🇧 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇶 🇵🇷 🇸🇷 🇹🇹

Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs St. Louis Cardinals; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Sunday, April 28, 2024, at 1:40pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Latin Contemporary Dance Gala

Ballet Hispánico celebrates Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro’s Quinceañera (15th Season) with the World Premiere of his “Buscando a Juan,” inspired by the Met exhibition of Afro-Spanish painter Juan de Pareja, and sancocho (Latin stew); plus Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “Mad’moiselle” exploration of Latin gender identity; and Spaniard Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s “18+1″ celebration of the vulnerability of every artistic endeavor. It’s at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 2pm. From $45. 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇪🇸

National Women’s Soccer League

Gotham FC vs Racing Louisville FC is at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey (Newark); on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 5pm. From $15. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇪🇸

South African Jazz

South African trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni and Sausa Experience with American drummer Ronnie Burrage, play jazz ; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, April 28, 2024, at 5pm & 7:30pm. From $25. 🇿🇦 🇺🇸

Tango Dance

Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷

R&B Jazz with Cuban Percussion

José James a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation; sings his R&B jazz, featuring Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $30. 🇮🇪 🇵🇦 🇨🇺

Latin Jazz

Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺

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Monday, April 29, 2024

Italian American Vintage Hot Jazz

Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theatre at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). $25. 🇮🇹

Salsa Dance

Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪

Puerto Rican Spoken Word

The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷

Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Monday, April 29, 2024, at 7:10pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Mexican Cinco de Mayo Dance

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company dances a special educational performance of excerpts from “Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo;” at the New Rochelle Public Library, in New Rochelle, New York; on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 6:30pm. FREE with rsvp. 🇲🇽

Major League Baseball

New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs; is at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Monday, April 29, 2024, at 7:10pm. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Neoclassical Ballet

New York City Ballet dances an All Balanchine program of “Bourrée Fantasque” (1949), “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” (1975), “Errante (Formerly Tzigane, 1975), and “Symphony in C” (1947); in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40.

Puerto Rican Jazz Sax

Miguel Zenón, Puerto Rican sax, plays jazz with multicultural influences in the Dan Weiss Even Odds trio; at the Jazz Gallery in NoMad, Manhattan; on Tuesday-Wednesday, April 30 – May 1, 2024 at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

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