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Raíces Roots Music Concert Series - Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas
On September 22, 2018, Gabriel Muñoz y Melodías Borinqueñas shared the traditional Jíbaro mountain music of Puerto Rico at the Forum Theatre in Metuchen, NJ as part of the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series.
Gabriel Muñoz was born in Puerto Rico in…
Magnolia Street String Band
Magnolia Street String Band started in 2013 as an informal project among some friends, meeting and picking in Highland Park, NJ. Originally there was a cellist. And no banjo. In the summer of 2013, they stumbled into a booking for a local festival…
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.
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,…
Indigenous Roots, European Influences
INKHAY's music, primarily, represents elements of South American indigenous culture when they perform wind and percussion music. They also include European musical elements when they play stringed instruments like the guitar, mandolin and the well…
Grupo INKHAY
INKHAY originated in New York in 1984. Their performances at music festivals, museums, schools and concert halls have created a new source of reference for folk music lovers.
Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY
The members of INKHAY, under the direction of Pepe Santana, a native from Ecuador, are: Rothman Teran, César Vele e Iván Vele; all from Ecuador. Each member has been involved with various folk groups, both, here in the United States and in South…
Orisha Forces of Nature
Brief description/definition of Orisha, or Forces of Nature from Nigeria and Cuba.
The Music of The Vejigantes
Describes the music of bomba and plena, two folkloric genres of music, song and dance from Puerto Rico associated with the vejigantes.
The Vejigantes
Describes the origins, characteristics and celebrations of the Puerto Rican folkloric tradition of "Los Vejigantes", a character associated with the music of bomba and plena.
Bomba
Examples of choruses sung in bomba.
Los Vejigantes
Raíces Cultural Center delivered an arts and culture residency about the history, music, song and dance of the vejigantes at the Greater Brunswick Charter School in 2009. This culminating assembly performance was part of the 2009 Raíces Production…
Raíces Performance: Black History Festival
Raícitas Youth Program student performers illustrate the Puerto Rican folkloric tradition of “Los Vejigantes”.
Spirit of the Drum Newsletter Article
Newsletter excerpt about the Raíces Cultural Center 2011 production "Spirit of the Drum."
Bailala
Video clip from the 2009 Raíces fact finding exchange trip to Puerto Rico
Hip Hop Ambassadors: International Visitors
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Hip-Hop Ambassadors Cultural Exchange program stopped at Raíces Cultural Center on their tour of the Northeast.
Visitors came from Zimbabwe, Uganda, India, Burma and Pakistan
Visitors came from Zimbabwe, Uganda, India, Burma and Pakistan
Ecoculture Garden: Harvest
Early spring harvest of radishes, peas and mint.
Ecoculture Garden: Baby Lettuce
Baby lettuce
Ecoculture Garden: St. John’s Wort
Saint Johnswort beginning to bloom.
Ecoculture Garden: Ready to plant
Prepared beds in the early spring. Green beans, black beans, basil, tomatoes, beets, cabbage and herbs later filled up these plots.
Ecoculture Garden: Blackberry and Bee
The great pollenators, bee pollenating a thornless black raspberry flower.
Ecoculture Garden: Micro Farm Plots 2011
Raíces micro farm plots.
Ecoculture Garden: Micro Farm Plots 2011
2011 was the year the deer discovered our gardens. After six years of planting out in the open, we had to put up a fence.
Ecoculture Garden: Beans
Beans planted in mounds. The empty mound would soon be covered in black bean plants.
Ecoculture Garden: Herb Donations
A friend of Raíces donated a few trays worth of herb seedlings to plant. Good for teas, cooking and for the bees.