September 22, 2025 • 15 mins
Approaching it’s first anniversary, The Bronx Music Hall is the first independent music performance venue in the borough in more than 50 years, and the new home of WHEDco’s Bronx Music Heritage Center. Co-Artistic Directors Elena Martínez and multi-Grammy nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria talk about their mission to celebrate Bronx artists past and present.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Get Connected with Nina del Rio, a weekly
conversation about fitness, health and happenings in our community on
one oh six point seven light FM.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to get Connected, Thanks for listening. Approaching its first
year anniversary, the Bronx Music Hall is the first independent
music performance venue in the borough in more than fifty years.
It's also the new home of wedco's Bronx Music Heritage Center,
promoting Bronx music and artists and providing free cultural programs
for the community. Our guests are the Bronx Music Halls
(00:33):
Co Artistic directors Elena Martinez and Multi Grammy nominated percussionist
Bobby Sanabria. Thank you for being on.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
The show, Hainina, Thank you for inviting us.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yes, you can find out more about the Hall at
Bronxmusichall dot org. It's kind of incredible that this is
the first new venue in the borough of more than
fifty years. Let's talk first about the development. How did
the project come to life?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, it's through on WEBC Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation.
Their mission is to build affordable housing, but also to
build programs and departments for other community needs. Home based
childcare certification, incubator, kitchen, after school programs. So we're like
the cultural arm the Bronx Music Heritage Center in twenty twelve.
We were always housing this sort of storefront since twenty
(01:20):
twelve until we got the theater ready and yeah, we
had our grand opening last October. So now we're bringing
all the programs, the music classes that we did at
the Bronx Music Heritage Center to the theater and the
Bronx Music Hall in the new Bronx Commons building.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
We're responsible for the program as programming as we were
responsible for it at the smaller space Lewis nin Boulevard,
right in the heart of the community. So we're back
in the heart of the community, but in a bigger
space on East Signer at sixty third Street. And parenthetically,
it's really nice for me because it's in the myro
(01:56):
section of the South Bronx and I grew up there.
I don't know what you want, serendipity, kiss meant, whatever
you know you want to call it, but for me,
it's very gratifying and we must mention also the founder
of wet Go through her genius, she thought of all
of this community activism through providing housing.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Nancy Beeberman, it's kind of incredible. We've had wed CO
on the show a couple of times to talk about
their childcare and their affordable housing, and then they have
this giant commitment to arts and culture in the Bronx.
To me, that says something about how that is such
a significant part of the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know, one of the things I always loved about
wed CO when I first, you know, knew about it
and learned about them and was invited to come, is
that wed coa's mission, right is about affordable housing. That's
like the official mission affordable housing. But the sort of
like unofficial mission is that we don't just build building
as we build community. So yes, they build affordable housing,
and people do need housing is a really big issue
(02:58):
right now. So in our country, yes, housing is there,
but when people have how have a home, they also
need the other thing. They need good food to eat,
they need a good school for their kids to go to,
they need arts and culture for the soul. Right, So
I mean there's all these there's all these things that
go together. So it's not it's sort of a organic
way of looking at you know, where you live. It's
(03:19):
not just about just creating the building and then walking away.
It's providing all those other services that people need. And Nancy,
as Bobby mentioned, Nancy Biberman, the founder of Woodcoat, was
really interested in also focusing on music and culture because
the Bronx is this incredible has this incredible history, credible
legacy of music and culture, which is kind of forgotten
a lot of times because the Bronx has the bad reputation,
(03:42):
you know, the fires and crime, But the Bronx really
has an incredible legacy of music, musical forms and musicians
that live there, and incredible venues for performances, and she
wanted to make sure that was recognized and that that history.
Not only is that history recognized, but that is still thriving.
It's still there. It's not something dead in the past.
(04:03):
There's still a really dynamic, thriving ecosystem of the arts.
And so hopefully the Bronx Music Hall can sort of
the past as well as give a platform for the
for the present and future.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
And the fact that the Bronx has been such an
incubator for talent over the years, that that history was
wiped out with fires in the nineteen seventies, and of
course I grew up in the South Bronx during the
time when what kept us alive was the music and culture.
(04:34):
The lingua franca of the streets was R and B
and funk and salsa, which is basically Cuban music. The
way we played here in New York City, particularly with
the Puerto Rican community, there wasn't a street corner in
the South Bronx during the summer time where you wouldn't
hear the sound of Gonga drums coming from the parks
(04:54):
or in an informal way in front of bodegons, etcetera, etcetera.
That all here, but we're bringing it back in full
force for the new generation of Bronx sites, reinvigorating all
of the Bronx, particularly the South Bronx. They don't know
anything of that history, especially the youth, so for them
(05:15):
it's an eye opener.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And the fact that they can walk by and they
see this beautiful marque that sees this, says Bronx Music
Hall right in the hood is something of wonder tickle pink,
to use a corny colloquial expression about it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Our guests are Bobby Sinabria and Elena Martinez. They are
co directors of the Bronx Music Hall. It's at four
thirty eight East one hundred and sixty third. To purchase
tickets for shows, to register for classes, to find out
about everything, visit Bronx Music Hall dot org. You're listening
to get connected on one six point seven light FM.
I'm Na del Rio And as you were just saying, Bobby,
(05:54):
it's it's you know, it gives you an opportunity to
bring things to the Bronx that people have not seen before.
What was sort of as you took over this role.
You've had a lot of hats. You've been a percussionist,
a composer, and arranger, an educator. Was exciting to you
about this particular platform.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That I would be able to directly give back to
the community that I came from and give them what
I love To use the quote by the legendary Bill Graham,
who was a Bronx site, who was one of the
producers of Woodstock and Live Aid and all of those
incredible concerts. He always said, give the people what they want,
(06:38):
but you got to give them something that they need
as well. So that's what we're doing. To see the
smiles of kids' faces that have never heard jazz before
or even something as ubiquitous as salsa, because they've been
The music of the youth today is reggaeton and rap.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Well, it's a thing of wonder.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So, Elena, your background is a folklorist, a cultural historian,
a curator, a film producer. So when you're telling stories
about the Bronx, the Bronx music history, what do you
think surprises audience is the most.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't know what surprises other people, but for me,
but the Bronx had a lot more depth than people think.
People that, oh, it's the Bronx is always about hip hop, right,
it's the birthplace hip hop, yes, and that's really great
and exciting because that's basically the music that has taken
over the world, you know, fifty years later. But it's
also has deep roots with other forms of music, you know,
(07:35):
rock and roll, right, rock music has you know a
lot of famous rock musicians also from here as well,
not just hip hop artists or salesa musicians. And we're
actually doing a program in the fall where we're going
to have a band that kind of fuses Dominican rhythms
with funk and rock music as well, and Bobby's going
to be doing an intro lecture to that concert about
(07:57):
the Latin roots of rock and roll. How like Latin
music is embedded in a lot of rock music that
we all probably know and are aware of.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
So when you find things like that that there's pieces
of history that are part of our borough that people
forget about or don't know about. To me, that's important
to let to get out to the world.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
And the fact that people don't realize. I like to
call the Bronx the Borough of Music. There were so
many nightclubs, catering halls, dance halls, church dances at one
time that permeated throughout the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Doctor Mark Nason, who.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Teaches African American studies at Fordham University, has stated that
probably there were more or as many nightclubs in the
Bronx at one time than even in Manhattan. So the
borough was thriving, striving, and in many ways, the borough
was the leader in terms of the civil rights movement.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
In terms of integration. For example, what's the name of
the high school?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Marris High School was the most integrated high school in
the nineteen fifties, way before integration was talked about in
the South. So it's the place where everything came together jazz, salsa,
R and B, funk, disco and of course the blues
(09:22):
and what's it that we know as hip hop and
rap and just to.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Give another idea, the Bronx as many times, you know,
always remember for the fires and crime, and we still
kind of get some of that blowback sometimes, you know,
people are getting scared to come up to the Bronx
and things like that. So for us it's really important.
We were both born in the Bronx. You know, we're
very proud of it that we know that that we
we show that the other sides of the Bronx, like
(09:47):
for instance, in the neighborhoods where our space is, the
old space and the new space are, which is right
in the heart of the South Bronx. Six any a
jazz masters are from there, any jazz any The National
dominately Arts gives out the Jazz Master every year to
the people the musicians who who are iconic in the
world of jazz and they're living and six of them
(10:10):
are from just this our the neighborhood where we are.
You know, that's that's incredible. I won't know that any
other neighborhoods can boast that sort of talent. We're also
there's two venues that have that have big connections to
music in the Bronx. Casta a Madeo the record Store
and rincon Creole the Casita are the first places on
(10:30):
the National Register of Historic Places to record Puerto Rican
history on the mainland or both from the Bronx or
these neighborhoods in the Bronx. So it's just this there's
an incredible death of history and culture that I think
it's obscured a lot of times because people focus on
all these other negative things and so you know, we
not only is our feel, is our mission, but it's
(10:51):
it's also incredible. It's great music to work great musicians,
to work with, great artists to work with, and you know,
to to show all that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So now that you've been open about a year, what
has been the response since you mentioned these musicians, What
has been the response from the music, the artists and
the music community.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I would say the artists. The artists love the space.
They and that one thing that makes me really happy.
They come in and they like see the theater like,
oh it's great. The acoustics are great. So from the
artistic community, it's been really it's been great. We have
beautiful mural artistic space for exhibits that we have great
images of right now. The theaters is beautiful and it's
(11:27):
really acoustics are great, which is really important for you know,
for a music hall. So yeah, So the artists we
know or I assume, are really proud of having it
in the neighborhood and excited to perform there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I mean most of the reaction by the musicians has
been basically jaw dropping. They they come in there, they
don't expect to see what they see. We have a
join and fiftyc theater, we have an outdoor stage, we
have an amphitheater in the back. We have a rehearsal
dance studio. We have the capability of live streaming any
performance that we do. Our art gallery space is so
(12:01):
huge that have we do lobby concerts in there as well.
Pretty amazing space. We can do multiple events at the
same time. Very much like jazz i Link. Its center
and it's a place of community. I always tell everybody
that walks in, this is your home. This is your home,
so come visit anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Elena as we wrap up, do you want to mention
a few upcoming shows. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So for the end of September, we have a series
for Son called Sunday Salons. Sunday Salons are where we
keep things free and open to the community. I mean,
everything's always open to the community, but Sundays are free
afternoon events. We're going to have the group Coco Mama,
which is sort of like, how did you describe Coco
Mama there?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I would say that they are the leading salsa Latin
jazz oriented group. It's all female led. They've been in
the forefront of getting women out there the recognition that
they deserve as instrumentalists and vocalists. So they're fabulous group.
They always bring down the house where they.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Perform, and they're going to be performing in some tap
dancers on the afternoon of the twenty first, if people
hear this at at the time, the afternoon of the
twenty first, that same week this week coming up, we
will have an exhibit, a photo exhibit by Joe Conzo Junior,
who is a major photographer from the Bronx, also known
as the man who took Hip Hop's baby pictures. But
he's gonna be this exhibit will be his Bronx, his
(13:21):
images of the Bronx through the years. And then we
have our open mic, our monthly open mic program Sabertas
comeing to see hear poetry, but also come in if
you want to join us on the open and step
up to the open mic. And then on the twenty seventh,
on September twenty seventh, we are doing having a concert
which is organized by the musician Felix Scenabria and it's
(13:42):
sponsored by us in the Caribbean Cultural Center African Dashpara
Institute of a tribute concert to Jane gold and the
musician Jan Golden, who is a tremendous musician in the
Rumba community.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Yeah, he's very important to the Santaiac community as a
ritual drama in the Roombaik community, which is the drumming,
vocal and dance tradition from La Avana and martanzas Uba.
And he's also made his market in the world of
salsa playing with many well known bands, in particular the
legendary group of Folklodgo ex Medi Manta.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That's a lot to say.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Don ask me to say three times fast, but anybody
that knows anything about this music knows that group.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
So we'll be honoring Jane and.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
He'll be there and he'll be there with some of
the best musicians in the Cuman music genres. Yeah, and
one last thing our music and dance classes. They start
the last week in September. We have piano, conga, guitar,
Puerto Rican Afa, Puerto Rican Bomba dance, Salsa dance for seniors,
capoea Mexican folklore dance for youth, percussion for youth. Music
(14:51):
production classes so for teens. So there's a lot going.
There's a lot of different classes, so you know on
our website you can find all that they'll be starting
as well.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
People want to sign up for you just have to
go to Bronxmusic Hall dot rg.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
There is a lot to be found there. Elena Martinez
and Bobbysinabria, thank you for being on Get Connected and
everybody check out the website of the Bronx Music Hall
Bronx Music Hall dot org.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Thank you, Thank you Anita.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to get Connected, Thanks for listening. Approaching its first
year anniversary, the Bronx Music Hall is the first independent
music performance venue in the borough in more than fifty years.
It's also the new home of wedco's Bronx Music Heritage Center,
promoting Bronx music and artists and providing free cultural programs
for the community. Our guests are the Bronx Music Halls
(00:33):
Co Artistic directors Elena Martinez and Multi Grammy nominated percussionist
Bobby Sanabria. Thank you for being on.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
The show, Hainina, Thank you for inviting us.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yes, you can find out more about the Hall at
Bronxmusichall dot org. It's kind of incredible that this is
the first new venue in the borough of more than
fifty years. Let's talk first about the development. How did
the project come to life?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, it's through on WEBC Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation.
Their mission is to build affordable housing, but also to
build programs and departments for other community needs. Home based
childcare certification, incubator, kitchen, after school programs. So we're like
the cultural arm the Bronx Music Heritage Center in twenty twelve.
We were always housing this sort of storefront since twenty
(01:20):
twelve until we got the theater ready and yeah, we
had our grand opening last October. So now we're bringing
all the programs, the music classes that we did at
the Bronx Music Heritage Center to the theater and the
Bronx Music Hall in the new Bronx Commons building.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
We're responsible for the program as programming as we were
responsible for it at the smaller space Lewis nin Boulevard,
right in the heart of the community. So we're back
in the heart of the community, but in a bigger
space on East Signer at sixty third Street. And parenthetically,
it's really nice for me because it's in the myro
(01:56):
section of the South Bronx and I grew up there.
I don't know what you want, serendipity, kiss meant, whatever
you know you want to call it, but for me,
it's very gratifying and we must mention also the founder
of wet Go through her genius, she thought of all
of this community activism through providing housing.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Nancy Beeberman, it's kind of incredible. We've had wed CO
on the show a couple of times to talk about
their childcare and their affordable housing, and then they have
this giant commitment to arts and culture in the Bronx.
To me, that says something about how that is such
a significant part of the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know, one of the things I always loved about
wed CO when I first, you know, knew about it
and learned about them and was invited to come, is
that wed coa's mission, right is about affordable housing. That's
like the official mission affordable housing. But the sort of
like unofficial mission is that we don't just build building
as we build community. So yes, they build affordable housing,
and people do need housing is a really big issue
(02:58):
right now. So in our country, yes, housing is there,
but when people have how have a home, they also
need the other thing. They need good food to eat,
they need a good school for their kids to go to,
they need arts and culture for the soul. Right, So
I mean there's all these there's all these things that
go together. So it's not it's sort of a organic
way of looking at you know, where you live. It's
(03:19):
not just about just creating the building and then walking away.
It's providing all those other services that people need. And Nancy,
as Bobby mentioned, Nancy Biberman, the founder of Woodcoat, was
really interested in also focusing on music and culture because
the Bronx is this incredible has this incredible history, credible
legacy of music and culture, which is kind of forgotten
a lot of times because the Bronx has the bad reputation,
(03:42):
you know, the fires and crime, But the Bronx really
has an incredible legacy of music, musical forms and musicians
that live there, and incredible venues for performances, and she
wanted to make sure that was recognized and that that history.
Not only is that history recognized, but that is still thriving.
It's still there. It's not something dead in the past.
(04:03):
There's still a really dynamic, thriving ecosystem of the arts.
And so hopefully the Bronx Music Hall can sort of
the past as well as give a platform for the
for the present and future.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
And the fact that the Bronx has been such an
incubator for talent over the years, that that history was
wiped out with fires in the nineteen seventies, and of
course I grew up in the South Bronx during the
time when what kept us alive was the music and culture.
(04:34):
The lingua franca of the streets was R and B
and funk and salsa, which is basically Cuban music. The
way we played here in New York City, particularly with
the Puerto Rican community, there wasn't a street corner in
the South Bronx during the summer time where you wouldn't
hear the sound of Gonga drums coming from the parks
(04:54):
or in an informal way in front of bodegons, etcetera, etcetera.
That all here, but we're bringing it back in full
force for the new generation of Bronx sites, reinvigorating all
of the Bronx, particularly the South Bronx. They don't know
anything of that history, especially the youth, so for them
(05:15):
it's an eye opener.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
And the fact that they can walk by and they
see this beautiful marque that sees this, says Bronx Music
Hall right in the hood is something of wonder tickle pink,
to use a corny colloquial expression about it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Our guests are Bobby Sinabria and Elena Martinez. They are
co directors of the Bronx Music Hall. It's at four
thirty eight East one hundred and sixty third. To purchase
tickets for shows, to register for classes, to find out
about everything, visit Bronx Music Hall dot org. You're listening
to get connected on one six point seven light FM.
I'm Na del Rio And as you were just saying, Bobby,
(05:54):
it's it's you know, it gives you an opportunity to
bring things to the Bronx that people have not seen before.
What was sort of as you took over this role.
You've had a lot of hats. You've been a percussionist,
a composer, and arranger, an educator. Was exciting to you
about this particular platform.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That I would be able to directly give back to
the community that I came from and give them what
I love To use the quote by the legendary Bill Graham,
who was a Bronx site, who was one of the
producers of Woodstock and Live Aid and all of those
incredible concerts. He always said, give the people what they want,
(06:38):
but you got to give them something that they need
as well. So that's what we're doing. To see the
smiles of kids' faces that have never heard jazz before
or even something as ubiquitous as salsa, because they've been
The music of the youth today is reggaeton and rap.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Well, it's a thing of wonder.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
So, Elena, your background is a folklorist, a cultural historian,
a curator, a film producer. So when you're telling stories
about the Bronx, the Bronx music history, what do you
think surprises audience is the most.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't know what surprises other people, but for me,
but the Bronx had a lot more depth than people think.
People that, oh, it's the Bronx is always about hip hop, right,
it's the birthplace hip hop, yes, and that's really great
and exciting because that's basically the music that has taken
over the world, you know, fifty years later. But it's
also has deep roots with other forms of music, you know,
(07:35):
rock and roll, right, rock music has you know a
lot of famous rock musicians also from here as well,
not just hip hop artists or salesa musicians. And we're
actually doing a program in the fall where we're going
to have a band that kind of fuses Dominican rhythms
with funk and rock music as well, and Bobby's going
to be doing an intro lecture to that concert about
(07:57):
the Latin roots of rock and roll. How like Latin
music is embedded in a lot of rock music that
we all probably know and are aware of.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
So when you find things like that that there's pieces
of history that are part of our borough that people
forget about or don't know about. To me, that's important
to let to get out to the world.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
And the fact that people don't realize. I like to
call the Bronx the Borough of Music. There were so
many nightclubs, catering halls, dance halls, church dances at one
time that permeated throughout the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Doctor Mark Nason, who.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Teaches African American studies at Fordham University, has stated that
probably there were more or as many nightclubs in the
Bronx at one time than even in Manhattan. So the
borough was thriving, striving, and in many ways, the borough
was the leader in terms of the civil rights movement.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
In terms of integration. For example, what's the name of
the high school?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Marris High School was the most integrated high school in
the nineteen fifties, way before integration was talked about in
the South. So it's the place where everything came together jazz, salsa,
R and B, funk, disco and of course the blues
(09:22):
and what's it that we know as hip hop and
rap and just to.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Give another idea, the Bronx as many times, you know,
always remember for the fires and crime, and we still
kind of get some of that blowback sometimes, you know,
people are getting scared to come up to the Bronx
and things like that. So for us it's really important.
We were both born in the Bronx. You know, we're
very proud of it that we know that that we
we show that the other sides of the Bronx, like
(09:47):
for instance, in the neighborhoods where our space is, the
old space and the new space are, which is right
in the heart of the South Bronx. Six any a
jazz masters are from there, any jazz any The National
dominately Arts gives out the Jazz Master every year to
the people the musicians who who are iconic in the
world of jazz and they're living and six of them
(10:10):
are from just this our the neighborhood where we are.
You know, that's that's incredible. I won't know that any
other neighborhoods can boast that sort of talent. We're also
there's two venues that have that have big connections to
music in the Bronx. Casta a Madeo the record Store
and rincon Creole the Casita are the first places on
(10:30):
the National Register of Historic Places to record Puerto Rican
history on the mainland or both from the Bronx or
these neighborhoods in the Bronx. So it's just this there's
an incredible death of history and culture that I think
it's obscured a lot of times because people focus on
all these other negative things and so you know, we
not only is our feel, is our mission, but it's
(10:51):
it's also incredible. It's great music to work great musicians,
to work with, great artists to work with, and you know,
to to show all that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So now that you've been open about a year, what
has been the response since you mentioned these musicians, What
has been the response from the music, the artists and
the music community.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I would say the artists. The artists love the space.
They and that one thing that makes me really happy.
They come in and they like see the theater like,
oh it's great. The acoustics are great. So from the
artistic community, it's been really it's been great. We have
beautiful mural artistic space for exhibits that we have great
images of right now. The theaters is beautiful and it's
(11:27):
really acoustics are great, which is really important for you know,
for a music hall. So yeah, So the artists we
know or I assume, are really proud of having it
in the neighborhood and excited to perform there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
I mean most of the reaction by the musicians has
been basically jaw dropping. They they come in there, they
don't expect to see what they see. We have a
join and fiftyc theater, we have an outdoor stage, we
have an amphitheater in the back. We have a rehearsal
dance studio. We have the capability of live streaming any
performance that we do. Our art gallery space is so
(12:01):
huge that have we do lobby concerts in there as well.
Pretty amazing space. We can do multiple events at the
same time. Very much like jazz i Link. Its center
and it's a place of community. I always tell everybody
that walks in, this is your home. This is your home,
so come visit anytime you want.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Elena as we wrap up, do you want to mention
a few upcoming shows. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
So for the end of September, we have a series
for Son called Sunday Salons. Sunday Salons are where we
keep things free and open to the community. I mean,
everything's always open to the community, but Sundays are free
afternoon events. We're going to have the group Coco Mama,
which is sort of like, how did you describe Coco
Mama there?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I would say that they are the leading salsa Latin
jazz oriented group. It's all female led. They've been in
the forefront of getting women out there the recognition that
they deserve as instrumentalists and vocalists. So they're fabulous group.
They always bring down the house where they.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Perform, and they're going to be performing in some tap
dancers on the afternoon of the twenty first, if people
hear this at at the time, the afternoon of the
twenty first, that same week this week coming up, we
will have an exhibit, a photo exhibit by Joe Conzo Junior,
who is a major photographer from the Bronx, also known
as the man who took Hip Hop's baby pictures. But
he's gonna be this exhibit will be his Bronx, his
(13:21):
images of the Bronx through the years. And then we
have our open mic, our monthly open mic program Sabertas
comeing to see hear poetry, but also come in if
you want to join us on the open and step
up to the open mic. And then on the twenty seventh,
on September twenty seventh, we are doing having a concert
which is organized by the musician Felix Scenabria and it's
(13:42):
sponsored by us in the Caribbean Cultural Center African Dashpara
Institute of a tribute concert to Jane gold and the
musician Jan Golden, who is a tremendous musician in the
Rumba community.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Yeah, he's very important to the Santaiac community as a
ritual drama in the Roombaik community, which is the drumming,
vocal and dance tradition from La Avana and martanzas Uba.
And he's also made his market in the world of
salsa playing with many well known bands, in particular the
legendary group of Folklodgo ex Medi Manta.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That's a lot to say.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Don ask me to say three times fast, but anybody
that knows anything about this music knows that group.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
So we'll be honoring Jane and.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
He'll be there and he'll be there with some of
the best musicians in the Cuman music genres. Yeah, and
one last thing our music and dance classes. They start
the last week in September. We have piano, conga, guitar,
Puerto Rican Afa, Puerto Rican Bomba dance, Salsa dance for seniors,
capoea Mexican folklore dance for youth, percussion for youth. Music
(14:51):
production classes so for teens. So there's a lot going.
There's a lot of different classes, so you know on
our website you can find all that they'll be starting
as well.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
People want to sign up for you just have to
go to Bronxmusic Hall dot rg.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
There is a lot to be found there. Elena Martinez
and Bobbysinabria, thank you for being on Get Connected and
everybody check out the website of the Bronx Music Hall
Bronx Music Hall dot org.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Thank you, Thank you Anita.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
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