Cuban Culture

Browse features on Cuban Culture in New York City, including Cuban art, comedy, dance, fashion, festivals, film, food, music, sports, and theatre.

Cuban Culture News

Melvis Santa Afro-Cuban Jazz For The Ancestors

BAR LUNÁTICO, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn 🇨🇺
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Cuba y Puerto Rico son… Humberto Ramírez 40 and La Lupe Tribute with Michelle “La Brava,” Lena Burke, Mambo Legends Orchestra, y el Bronx Arts Ensemble

Humberto Ramírez, Michelle “La Brava,” Joe Conzo Sr. 🇵🇷
Mambo Legends Orchestra, Bronx Arts Ensemble 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
La Lupe, Lena Burke 🇨🇺

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx

Dayramir González Jazz Piano with Afro-Cuban Soul

QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL LIBRARY, Jamaica, Queens 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇺🇾

Tania León Curates Dialogues with Cuban Pianist Dayramir González, Violinist Concetta Abbate, and Cuban Pianist Santiago Beis

QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL LIBRARY, Jamaica, Queens 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇺🇾

Flor de Toloache, New York’s Female Mariachi, Plays Live for a Screening of Disney’s Day of the Dead Movie “Coco”

THE TOWN HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇲🇽 + 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺

New York Yankees World Series Games 3-5 at Yankee Stadium

YANKEE STADIUM, Concourse, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇭 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF) Fundraises for God’s Love We Deliver Out of Brooklyn This Year, Oy Vey

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North 🇺🇸 🇨🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇦
Caribe 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹
South 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Africa 🇬🇭 🇪🇹 🇲🇦 🇿🇦
Asia 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇱🇧 🇯🇵 🇵🇭

Cuban Independence Day Celebrates “The Cry of Yara” Which Launched the First Cuban War of Independence From Spain

YARA, Granma, Cuba 🇨🇺

Daymé Arocena, “Cuba’s Finest Young Female Singer,” Joins Sofía Rey for a Night of Folk & Futurism

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇨🇺

Cimafunk “Pa’ Tu Cuerpa Tour” Has “The James Brown of Cuba” Getting More Funky

SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇨🇺
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Hispanic Day Parade NYC Desfile de la Hispanidad New York Celebrates the Culture of 20 Hispanic Countries on Fifth Avenue

FIFTH AVENUE Midtown/Midtown East, Central Park/Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

Orunmila is the Yoruba Orisha of Wisdom and Divination

October 4 🇨🇺

Pedrito Martinez is the World’s First-Call Rumbero

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺

NYC Off-Broadway Week 2024 Fall 2-for-1 Tickets to Latin Off-Broadway Shows

REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL, Kips Bay, Manhattan 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
SHEEN CENTER, NoHo, Manhattan 🇻🇪
SIGNATURE THEATRE, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇭🇹

Junta Hispana is a Hispanic Product Sample Fair with Family Entertainment

FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Belongó Performs, Teaches, and Preserves Afro Latin Jazz

ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn: Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, LaTasha Barnes, Soles of Duende 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇮🇳 🇪🇸
RIVERBANK STATE PARK, Hamilton Heights / West Harlem, Manhattan: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra live music, youth workshops, salsa dance lessons 🇨🇺
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 🇨🇺

Obatalá is the Yoruba Orisha Who Made the World and People

September 24 🇨🇺

Dafnis Prieto Sí o Sí Quartet Celebrates the Release of “3 Sides of the Coin”

JAZZ GALLERY, NoHo, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Hispanic Heritage Month in New York City 2024

A meditation on what it means to be “Hispanic” in America today.

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Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Play a Free Concert of Latin Jazz for Dancing at Bryant Park

BRYANT PARK, Garment District, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Orquesta Broadway was a Popular New York Cuban Charanga Orchestra in the 1960s-1970s

DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Our Lady of Charity, La Caridad del Cobre, is the Patron Saint of Cuba

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba September 8 🇨🇺

Oshun is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Fresh Water, Fertility and Love

September 8 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Our Lady of Regla is a Catholic Yemayá

REGLA, Havana, Cuba 🇨🇺

Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea

February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
December 31 🇧🇷

Arsenio Rodríguez, “El Ciego Maravilloso,” Developed Son Montuno and the Conjunto, the Template for Salsa, Songo, and Timba

GÜIRA DE MACURIJES, Matanzas, Cuba ~ August 31, 1911 🇨🇺

Queens Hispanic Parade 2024 Desfile Hispano de Queens

37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇸🇻 🇬🇶 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪

Armory Show Celebrates 30 Years of International Contemporary Art Fairs in New York City

JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇬 🇿🇦 🇪🇸

Fall For Dance at City Center Brings the World of Dance to New York

NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇪🇸

Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On

AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Aggayú Solá is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Flowing Forces of Nature

JULY 25 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

NYC Restaurant Week is a Great Time to Try New Restaurants with Family and Friends

NEW YORK CITY Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇴 🇪🇸

Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) Brings Alt Rock Fusions to NYC

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, Times Square, Manhattan
DROM, East Village, Manhattan
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan
SOBs, Hudson Square, Manhattan
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Ogun is the Yoruba Orisha of Metals, Technology, Drivers, and Rum, ¡Aguanile!

JANUARY 29 Cuban tradition (Regla de Ocha) 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
JUNE 29 African tradition (Regla de Ifá) 🇧🇯 🇳🇬 🇹🇬

Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Yoruba Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny

Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Benin, Togo 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

South Bronx Cultural Festival Celebrates Casita Maria’s 90th Anniversary with Arturo O’Farrill, Eddie Palmieri, Bobby Sanabria, Grandwizzard Theodore, and Lots More

FATHER GIGANTE PLAZA, Longwood, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra is One of New York’s Busiest Latin Jazz Big Bands

THE TOWN HALL, Midtown Manhattan, Blue Note Jazz Festival 🇨🇺 🇧🇷
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Blue Note Jazz Festival Kicks Off Summer in New York City

BLUE NOTE Greenwich Village, Manhattan
BROOKLYN BOWL, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
SUMMERSTAGE Rumsey Playfield, Central Park
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Columbus Circle, Manhattan
SONY HALL Times Square Theater District, Manhattan
THE TOWN HALL Midtown, Manhattan
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