Our end of the
year special event is the multi-faceted, multi-media and collaborative
project highlighting practitioners in the Afro-Cuban Spiritual and
Folkloric traditions
Panter Calderón, the long-time director of the Yoruba
Andabo group, is a veritable prodigy of Afro-Cuban percussion. In
2012, he created his own group, Osain del Monte, bringing together the
emerging generation of the young singers, dancers, and percussionists
of Havana. They took the main stages of Havana to promote
music emanating from the most “Afro” sacred rituals in the Cuban
tradition (santeria, pablo, abacua, iyesa, rumba, columbia), and
within a few months they became ambassadors of Afro-Cuban identity
throughout the country. Spectators from around the world, including
legends like Madonna and the Rolling Stones, crowded in to
catch their incredible shows.
BOBI CÉSPEDES
A vocalist in the
Cuban son tradition, composer, band leader and educator, Bobi first won international
recognition as director and lead vocalist for the award winning band,
Conjunto Céspedes. She claims her rightful place as an icon in the
tradition with a resonant voice and dynamic stage presence and leads
audiences on a journey from Yoruba incantations to the Cuban son.
with Marco Díaz
Elizabeth "Lichi" Fuentes, José Roberto Hernández, Ernesto
Mazar Kindelán, Robert Morris Amaya and Eric Rangel
Michele
Rosewoman's New Yor-Ubawith Alex Norris, Mike Thomas, Isaiah Collier, Chris
Washburne, Gregg August, Robby Ameen, Román Díaz, Rafael Monteagudo,
Mauricio Herrera and Abraham Rodriguez
Francisco Mora
Catlett's Afro Horn withFrancisco Mora Catlett, Sam
Newsome, Román Díaz, James Weidman, Rashaan Carter, and Alex Harding
Román Díaz 's Rumba EnsemblewithClemente
Medina, Rafael Monteagudo, Barry Cox, Abraham
Rodriguez, Máximo Gustavo, and Onel Mulet
SUNDAY DECEMBER 19
at 7pm
ROUNDTABLE &
RUMBA
FRANK BELL
Hailing from Havana,
long-time NY-based Oriate and musician, Frank Bell, is steeped in the
cultural history of the Lukumi tradition. Bell’s framing remarks illuminate
the key influences for the featured artists in A Function at the
Junction
HABANA/HARLEM®
Neyda Martinez and Onel Mulet are a music & humanities
initiative that celebrates a cultural and creative nexus by supporting and
presenting projects and artists that foster dialogue and cultural
appreciation.
Habana/Harlem
produced this historic conversation
Roundtable
Michele
Rosewoman, Francisco Mora Catlett, Román Díaz,Frank Bell and Ivor Miller.
Ivor L. Miller,
Ph.D, is a scholar focused on Cuban cultural history in the
trans-Atlantic context. He has conducted research in Cuba since 1991,
focusing on the continuity and impact of seminal Cuban artists, many of
whom have left an indelible mark on the New York music scene.
LOS MUÑEQUITOS DE
MATANZAS
is a Cuban rumba
ensemble from the city of Matanzas. The group was established in 1952 as
Conjunto Guaguancó Matancero and released their first LP in 1956 through
Puchito. Since then, Los Muñequitos have continued to perform and record,
becoming one of the most successful and critically acclaimed rumba groups
of all time.
YORUBA ANDABO
Yoruba Andabo is a
Cuban rumba ensemble founded in 1981 by master percussionist/folklorist
Pancho Quinto. It evolved from an amateur group known as Guaguancó Marítimo
Portuario, established in 1961 in the docks of Havana
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