Tickets:
$20, $15 for students, seniors and members of CTMD, Symphony Space,
World Music Institute and WNYC.
Family
programs: Adults, $10 / Children $5
To
purchase call (212) 864-5400 or www.symphonypace.org
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New
Global Beat of the Boroughs CD release!
A celebration
of the 2004 release of the third Global Beat of the Boroughs compact
disc compilation, Quisqueya en el Hudson:
Dominican Music in New York (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings).
Family
Program: At 1:00pm — The Conjunto
Folklórico will also present a family program
of merengue dance rhythms and steps and highlights from
the Dominican carnival traditions including the diablos cahuellos
masquerade and the roba de galina rag dancers of the gagá
processional dance. |
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| Luis
Dias is an innovative composer and performer of the
urban, guitar-led bachata music fused with rock, country
and jazz. Dias is also a master interpreter of folk traaditions of
the Dominican Republic. |
A
Bronx-based mix of both classic and original merengue and
son, Coco Merenson
performs a dynamic fusion of Dominican and Cuban sounds with horns,
guitars, congas, tambora and güiro in a captivating
blen of old and new Caribbean styles. |
Washing
Heights-based Conjunto Folklórico
de la Alianza Dominicana performs social and sacred
dances of the Dominican Republic.
Special
guest, salves singer Doña
Chicha, in call-and-response ceremonial singing
accompanies by panderos and atabales.
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