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Bomba in Loíza
Nicole Wines, Co-Director of the Raíces Cultural Center dancing bomba at the Ayala family home on the day of Santiago apostol.
Bomba drums
Bomba drummers playing with the group representing the town of Aguada at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Juncos, Puerto Rico.
Bomba Drummers
Drummers playing the barriles de bomba at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Juncos, Puerto Rico.
Bomba drummers
Raúl Ayala, Jesus Cepeda and unknown drummer playing the barrilles (bomba drums) in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico on the day of Santiago apostol.
Bomba drummers
Jesus Cepeda playing the “primo” lead drum of the bomba ensemble at the Ayala family home in Loíza Aldea on the day of Santiago apostol.
Bomba drummers
Citizens of Loíza Aldea playing the barriles (bomba drums) on the day of Santiago apostol.
Bomba drummer
Bomba drummer at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Juncos, Puerto Rico.
Bomba Dancer - Don Miguel Flores Lopez
Don Miguel Flores Lopez from Guayama, Puerto Rico dancing the old style Guayama bomba dance. Having danced bomba since 15 years of age, and being 90 at the time of this photograph, he was one of the last dancers of the old style in Guayama.
Bomba Dancer
Dancing before the drums at the backyard bombazo in Carolina, Puerto Rico on the first night of the 5th Bomba Research Conference.
Bomba Dancer
Bomba dancer executing picoteos, or piquetes, before the primo, or lead drum. The drum responds to each of these movements with sound. This exchange between dancer and drummer is one of the defining characteristics of bomba.
Bomba Dancer
Bomba dancer, Nelissa Andrades, during a bombazo on the beach in San Juan.
Bomba Dance - Partners
Partner dance before the drums featuring Don Miguel Flores Lopez, bomba dancer for over 75 years, and Melanie Maldonado, dancer, singer and researcher. This was a demonstration of an older style of bomba dance from Guayama and was a dance…
Bomba Dance - Guayama Old Style
Don Miguel Flores Lopez and Melanie Maldonado dancing an old style of bomba dance from Guayama at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores. A video of this dance can be seen at this link: https://youtu.be/zqGMpXmDDsI?t=363
Bomba Dance
Bomba dancer moving to the sound of the barriles de bomba. When in the circle, before the lead drum, the dancer has the creative power of expression, calling on the drummer to respond to their movements with sound.
Bomba Dance
Unknown Santero (a person who practices the Yorùbá belief system of Ocha) Ocha is a belief system from Nigeria in West Africa. Its practitioners believe in the forces of nature like the ocean, rivers, lightning and thunder, wind, vegetation and…
Bomba Dance
Nellisa Andrades dancing bomba at the Ayala family home in Loíza Aldea on the day of Santiago apostol.
Bomba Class Flyer 2009
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for children’s and adults’ bomba classes held at the Hub City Teen Center in New Brunswick.
Bomba - Loíza Style
Young dancer conversing with the drum at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores in Juncos, Puerto Rico.
Bomba - Culture Rising
These bomba dancer cutouts were some of the cultural materials and artifacts saved and recovered after Hurricane María. Cultural roots and artistic expression were all strengthened on the island of Puerto Rico after Hurricane María. Drums, guitars,…
Bomba
Sculpture of a woman and man dancing bombs in front of a painting of a wooden bohío in artist Samuel Lind’s home art studio.
Bomba
Examples of choruses sung in bomba.
Bolivian Instrument
Bolivian instrument
Bohío in San Sebastian
Traditional wooden home found in the mountains of Puerto Rico. This house was the birthplace the grandfather of Raíces Cultural Center BOD chair Angela Lugo. The home was relatively undamaged by Hurricane María.
Bobby Baxmeyer - Dobro
Magnolia Street String Band’s Bobby Baxmeyer on dobro, a stringed instrument used in traditional bluegrass music.
Boarded Businesses
Businesses and storefronts remained shuttered in the aftermath and recovery period following Hurricanes Irma and Maria.