20
May 2017
Saturday
Bronx Rising
Community Events
Celebrating music and dance genres from West Africa and Garifuna communities in Central America, this event features performances by Bronx-based groups, including The Bambara Drum & Dance Ensemble ...
17
May 2017
Wednesday
Classes & Workshops
Master Bomba dancer and Puerto Rican native, Milteri Tucker Concepción will teach bomba dance, timing, figure and skirt technique. Open to all levels. Ages 12 & up. Cost: $15. RSVP Required. Please...
15
May 2017
Monday
Community Events
Performances
May is National Chamber Music Month! So we’re collaborating with the Bronx Arts Ensemble to throw a Chamber Music Reading Party for advanced players and chamber music lovers. Our “Jam Party” is op...
11
May 2017
Thursday
Performances
NYU professor Licia Fiol-Matta presents and reads from her new book, The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music. This book traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers...
4
May 2017
Thursday
Exhibit Opening
This pop-up exhibition features artwork by students from a local high school. The exhibit will remain open from May 4 through May 20.
30
Apr 2017
Sunday
Community Events
Kid Friendly
Swing the night away with the New School Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, directed by multi-Grammy nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria. This ensemble celebrates the rich legacy of jazz and Afro-Cuban ...
9
Apr 2017
Sunday
Performances
Hailing from Chicago, the LDB is a horn-driven tour de force that breaks the barrier between audience and performer with their live show. The performance features dynamic vocals, rapper Billa Camp,...
8
Apr 2017
Saturday
Performances
Conversations with the Masters, featuring Helen Merrill (Jelena Ana Milcetic), a Bronx-born jazz vocalist who began her career at 845 Club in the Bronx. Now a world renowned singer, she's performed...
26
Mar 2017
Sunday
Kid Friendly
Performances
Swing the night away with the New School Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, directed by multi-Grammy Nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria. This ensemble celebrates the rich legacy of jazz and Afro-Cuban ...
18
Mar 2017
Saturday
Kid Friendly
Performances
530pm: Crafting Nowruz Family Workshop Nowruz, which means "New Day," is an ancestral holiday marking the first day of spring. In the Iranian/Persian tradition, a special table setting is made. ...
11
Mar 2017
Saturday
Classes & Workshops
Learn this traditional percussion-based Puerto Rican dance form through an introductory course with professional Bomba dancer and choreographer Oxil Febles. Febles' graduate studies in Fine Arts an...
3
Mar 2017
Friday
Performances
A pop-up shop and art exhibition celebrating the developing body of work by Nelson "Chief 69" Seda, a South Bronx-based b-boy, MC, graffiti artist and youth educator. The daylong celebration will i...
26
Feb 2017
Sunday
Community Events
Kid Friendly
Swing the night away with the New School Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, directed by multi-Grammy nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria. This ensemble celebrates the rich legacy of jazz and Afro-Cuban ...
25
Feb 2017
Saturday
Community Events
Exhibit Opening
Multimedia exhibit paying tribute to Elombe Brath, the Pan-African activist and artist. The opening reception features performances by legendary jazz pianist Valeria Capers, NEA Jazz Master Jimmy O...
18
Feb 2017
Saturday
Dreaming Rhythms, Despertando Silencios Book release party for Nuyorican poet Carmen Bardeguez-Brown, who will read from her new book, accompanied on percussion by Bobby Sanabria, with guest poe...
17
Feb 2017
Friday
Performances
Film Screening: Nana Dijo: Irresolute Radiography of Black Consciousness Followed by Q&A and spoken word performance by film director Bocafloja Music by Irka Mateo Folk Quartet This concert wi...
17
Dec 2016
Saturday
Community Events
Kid Friendly
Each year we cap our Bronx Rising! series with a concert that features traditions from two of the Bronx’s distinct Latino communities: Puerto Rican and Garifuna. This year will celebrate traditions...
26
Nov 2016
Saturday
Kid Friendly
Performances
Celebrate the official launch of Taguiera (Homeland), the first recording by The Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble, a unique group that fuses jazz with the Garifuna tradition, incorporating instruments s...
19
Nov 2016
Saturday
Performances
Using an intercultural technique that blends discourse and performance, Romanee Kalicharran & Co. presents “Where Kathak and Bomba Meet in Me,” featuring two dance and percussion forms from differe...
17
Nov 2016
Thursday
Classes & Workshops
Kid Friendly
Renowned percussionist Angel Reyes –visiting from Florida— will conduct a master Puerto Rican bomba drum class, as part of BMHC’s November Bronx Rising! Program. Registration required | Contact: e...
22
Oct 2016
Saturday
Kid Friendly
Performances
Bring out your best costume! Celebrate Halloween early with Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry set to Latin rhythms, as performed by Bobby Sanabria & Project X, with guest vocalist Jenn Jade Ledesna. Opening...
2
Oct 2016
Sunday
Exhibit Opening
Kid Friendly
Join us for the opening reception at BMHC of a digital photography solo exhibit by Will Calhoun, a multi-Grammy award winning Bronx musician, composer and artist-photographer. A member of the legen...
15
Sep 2016
Thursday
Performances
Celebrate hip hop’s international influence! Following the Crotona Park DJ Jams sponsored by Tools of War at Crotona Park, head over to the BMHC for a full set of jammin’ hip hop. The event –which ...
10
Sep 2016
Saturday
Community Events
Kid Friendly
Join us at the corner of Lyman Place and Freeman Street during a street co-naming ceremony in honor of Elmo Hope, followed by a reception at the Bronx Music Heritage Center. A longtime resident of ...