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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…
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…
Testimonial for the Ancestors: Erick Gaspar
In the fall of 2011, Raíces Cultural Center began an oral history project called "Testimonials for the Ancestors", collecting video interviews from community members willing to share their stories and histories about how they remember, honor and…
Testimonial for the Ancestors: Kalila Borghini
In the fall of 2011, Raíces Cultural Center began an oral history project called "Testimonials for the Ancestors", collecting video interviews from community members willing to share their stories and histories about how they remember, honor and…
Bombera - Nanette Hernandez
Nanette Hernandez, cofounder and member of Segunda Quimbamba, performing at the Perth Amboy Ferry Slip as part of the Perth Amboy Artworks summer music series.
Playing the Baril de Bomba
Playing the "barril de bomba" with Segunda Quimbamba.
Playing Primo
In bomba, the lead drum and lead drummer mark the movements made by the dancer, called "piquetes" or "picoteos".
Keeping the Tradition Alive
In teaching youth the fundamentals of bomba, from the drum to the dance to the songs, Segunda Quimbamba helps to keep the tradition alive and pass it along to future generations.
Bombera
Performing with Segunda Quimbamba at the Perth Amboy Ferry Slip.
Toca Bomba
Bombera playing the "barril de bomba" and singing chorus with Segunda Quimbamba.
Bombera
Bombera performing with Segunda Quimbamba in Perth Amboy, NJ.
Plena
Playing plena with Segunda Quimbamba.
Plenera
Plenera playing a pandero and singing a plena with Segunda Quimbamba.
Segunda Quimbamba
Segunda Quimbamba performing at the Perth Amboy Ferry Slip on September 14, 2019. Segunda Quimbamba is a Jersey City-based percussion and dance ensemble that performs authentic Bomba and Plena, musical traditions from the island of Puerto Rico.…
Artisans
Artisans selling hand crafted vejigante masks at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Juncos, Puerto Rico.
Bomberas
Group of women playing barilles de bomba at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Puerto Rico. Drumming is often associated with male musicians, especially on a performance basis, but this is changing in modern society, as seen at this "Meeting of the…
Playing the Barriles
Playing the barriles de bomba at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores.
Bomberos
Drummers playing bomba at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores.
Jariksa Valle Feliciano
Jariksa Valle Feliciano, a member of the group representing the town of Aguada at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores.
Cuá
The cuá is an instrument that accompanies the barriles de bomba. The cuá is actually the sticks used to play on either a barrel or chunk of bamboo and helps keep the basic rhythm of the bomba strains.
Learning the Cuá
A member of the group representing Aguada in the 5th Encuentro de Tambores takes time to teach Raíces co-founder and ensemble member Nicole Wines the pattern he plays to accompany the bomba strains. Each town and group has their own variations of…
Bomberos from Aguada
Singers and lead drummers of the bomba group representing the town of Aguada at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Juncos, Puerto Rico posing for a photograph before they begin to play.