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Eleguá Dance
Nicole Wines performs a representation of Eleguá at the Elizabeth Public Library with the Raíces Folkloric Ensemble.
Encore - Playing Capoeira
In an encore to their presentation at the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series, Capoeira Senzala invited their students in attendance to come up on stage and “play”.
Festival for the Dead 1: Testimonials for the Ancestors & El Santísimo
For many cultures, death has always been felt with such finality. There are those, however, that have maintained a reverence and veneration for those that came before them. The Raíces Cultural Center's 2011 production Festival for the Dead: Ancestral…
Festival for the Dead 1: Testimonials for the Ancestors & El Santísimo
The introduction to the production “Festival for the Dead”. The production began with a multimedia sequence projected with live music followed by interviews footage of community members explaining their own connections to the ancestors.
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Fighting with Machetes
Ryan Wilson of Capoeira Senzala performs the Afro-Brazilian Maculelê with machetes.
Flyer for Raíces Music Concert Series - Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas - Puerto Rican Jíbaro Music
Flyer for the concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series held in September of 2018. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers,…
Flyer for Raíces Music Concert Series - Magnolia Street String Band - American Bluegrass
Flyer for the concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series held in August of 2018. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers,…
Flyer for Raíces Music Concert Series - Mestre Zumbi & Grupo Senzala - Brazilian Capoeira
Flyer for the first concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers, artists and…
Flyer for Raíces Music Concert Series - Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY - Andean folkloric music
Flyer for the concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series held in November of 2018. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers,…
For the Ancestors
The Raíces Folkloric Ensemble plays "Aumbao Wa Ori", a song honoring and praising the ancestors and dances for the dead.
Gabriel Muñoz
Gabriel Muñoz speaking to the audience about traditional music of Puerto Rico at the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series.
Gabriel Muñoz
Gabriel Muñoz was born in Puerto Rico in 1976. When he was 2, his family moved to New Jersey, where he grew up and still resides. He was introduced to the cuatro—a traditional Puerto Rican musical instrument similar to the mandolin—at the age of 14.…
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas - Aguinaldo - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Aguinaldo
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable…
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable…
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas performed folkloric music from the island of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre Cultural Arts Center in Metuchen, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas
Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas performing traditional Jíbaro music from the mountains of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre in Metuchen, NJ in September of 2018. This performance was part of the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series and helped to…
Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas
Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas share their talents, knowledge and cultural traditions with an audience in Central NJ.
Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas with Francisco G. Gómez
Raíces Cultural Center Director Francisco G. Gómez with members and friends of Gabriel Muñoz & Melodías Borinqueñas. Raíces was proud to present Gabriel Muñoz & Melodias Borinqueñas, as they shared their traditional Jíbaro music from Puerto Rico as…
Ginga
When capoeira is played in the roda, capoeiristas begin with a basic movement called the ginger.
Grupo INKHAY
INKHAY is a Quechua verb that means "to tend the fire". The members of the group have chosen this name to symbolize their commitment to keep alive, expose and spread the beautiful music of the Andes mountains of Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
Grupo Senzala
Members of Capoeira Senzala sing and play instruments of the Brazilian art of capoeira.
Grupo Senzala
Capoeira Senzala in a group photo with Raíces Cultural Center Co-founder and Archive Curator Nicole Wines after their performance at the 2018 Raíes Roots Music Concert Series.
Grupo Senzala - Salute
Members of Capoeira Senzala salute before entering the roda to play capoeira.
Guitar
Anibal Ortiz of Melodías Borinqueñas plays the guitar, keeping the rhythm for aguinaldos and seis chorreaos.