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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...