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The Pulse of the Music
The drum is the heartbeat of the music. Drums in Andean music play simple, steady pulse patterns in time with a variety of other instruments.
Sapulha Senzala
Sapulha Senzala of Capoeira Senzala playing pandeiro during the Maculelê segment of the group’s performance in the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series in July 2018.
Samuel Lind with his Screenprinted Poster for Majestad Negra
Samuel Lind showed the Raíces crew several of with his screenprinted posters, including this one for local bomba group, Majestad Negra.
Samba with Capoeira Senzala
Samba, like other variations of the Afro-Brazilian capoeira tradition, is rooted in song, drum and dance and is often practiced in a circle.
Saluting the Drum
Like in the capoeira roda, capoeiristas prepare to play Maculelê by saluting the drums.
Salute
Before playing in the roda, capoeiristas salute before the drum. Similar salutes are found in drumming traditions throughout the African diazora.
Raícitas Dance Class
From 2009-2010, Raíces Cultural Center held classes at the Hub City Teen Center in New Brunswick. Classes were held for children and adults. Participants learned the folkloric traditions of the Caribbean in dance, music and song. Almost one…
Raícitas Bomba Class
Participants in the Raícitas Youth Program learn the music, dance, song and history of the Caribbean folkloric traditions. The student is practicing bomba, an Afro-puertorican folkloric tradition. In bomba, the dancer and the drummer converse, with…
Raíces Rehearsal
Raíces students often rehearse and perform with the core of the Raíces Ensemble. Practicing voices for a full chorus in the Spring of 2010.
Raíces Rehearsal
Raíces Co-Directors Francisco G. Gómez and Nicole Wines in a Raíces Ensemble rehearsal. Francisco is also the Musical Director of Raíces. Pictured here in the spring of 2010 surrounded by cultural objects and instruments.
Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY
Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY performing traditional folkloric music from the Andes mountains at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in Highland Park, NJ in November 2018.This performance was part of the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series and helped…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAY - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAY - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAY - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAY - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana & Grupo INKHAYs performed folkloric music from the Andes mountains, specifically from the countries of Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise…
Pepe Santana
Pepe Santana is the director of Grupo INKHAY and is also a cultural historian, sharing knowledge and cultural traditions from the Andes mountains of Ecuador, Bolivia and Perú
Orisha Art Show Cultural Display
Cultural and educational display at the Orisha Art Exhibit. The display includes the batá drums, and peripheral instruments used in Afro-Cuban music, an orisha Oyá doll, a handmade Eleguá, Orisha tiles and a an Orisha poster.
Music of the Andes
The musicians of Grupo INKHAY play over two dozen musical instruments. Among the wind instruments, they play a variety of pan-pipes known to the natives as "sikus", "antaras" or "zampoñas". They also play end-nocthed vertical flutes called kenas,…
Learning percussion
Raíces Cultural Center provides arts and music education to the community. Here a student is learning the basics of Afro-Caribbean percussion with teacher and Raíces Co-Director Francisco G. Gómez
Kwanzaa Celebration
The Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble was asked to share the traditions and cultures of the Caribbean through music, dance and song as part of the 2010 NAACP Kwanzaa Celebration. Raíces Ensemble members are pictured here playing batá and singing to…
Instruments of the Andes - Drums
Drum patterns played in Andean folkloric music keep a strong pulse in the music, like the heartbeat of the songs.
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,…
Family Bombazo
Raícitas Youth Program participants and their families learn, study and practice the Afropuertorican folkloric tradition of bomba.
Drumming for Art at Streets 2k9
The Streets2k Festival series began in 2005 with Streets2k5. Raíces has been involved in each of the Streets2k Festivals, as performers, participants, and also as partners with the original creators of the event, the public arts non-profit Albus…
Drummer - 5th Encuentro de Tambores
Young drummer playing the barril de bomba in the summer heat of Juncos, Puerto Rico at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores.