Salsa Sunday - All Day Festival Celebrating Latin Music - November, 14, 2004

The Raices Latin Music Collection is pleased to present the third incarnation of its popular all-day festival SALSA SUNDAY on Sunday, November, 14 from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the Heckscher Building located at 1230 Fifth Avenue & 104th Street in Manhattan. Admission is $5. Celebrating the rich diversity of Latin Music, with its African roots and divergent streams through Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to New York City, Salsa Sunday will feature lecture/demonstrations, classes, performances, an exhibition, Palladium Dance Party, and "A Conversation with the Masters" featuring two major artists who have left indelible musical imprints on this genre.

East Harlem & El Barrio, NY (PRWEB) October 31, 2004 -- The Raices Latin Music Collection is pleased to present the third incarnation of its popular all-day festival SALSA SUNDAY on Sunday, November, 14 from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at the Heckscher Building located at 1230 Fifth Avenue & 104th Street in Manhattan. Admission is $5. There will be refreshments available for purchase. To see a schedule of activities, you may visit us online at www.harborconservatory.org

Celebrating the rich diversity of Latin Music, with its African roots and divergent streams through Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to New York City, Salsa Sunday will feature lecture/demonstrations, classes, performances, an exhibition, Palladium Dance Party, and "A Conversation with the Masters" featuring two major artists who have left indelible musical imprints on this genre. Featured artists include:

Victor Manuel y Trio Los Supremos (A look at the early Trio Music);

Bomba Dance Class with Felix Romero (Afro-Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance Form); *Women are encouraged to bring a white skirt

David Oquendo and Raices Habaneras (Afro-Cuban Folkloric Music and Dance);

Louis Bauzo and Carambu (Afro-Puerto Rican Folkloric Music and Dance);

Louis Bauzo and the Harbor Latin Big Band (Dance Party Featuring Music from the Palladium Era);

Los Soneros del Oriente (The Musical Form of Son);

Luis Kalaff y Su Perico Ripiao (Merengue);
and
"Conversation with the Masters" moderated by journalist/historian Aurora Flores. Featuring Candido Camero and Luis Karlaff

Support for SALSA SUNDAY comes from the Ford Foundation, Reed Foundation and J.P. Morgan Chase.

Raíces public programs encourage living artists not only through performance and education programs, but also by keeping the tradition of Latin music alive through contextualization and access to its history. Our programs involve performers, bands, musicians, composers, and arrangers who are vibrantly active on the scene today, but who also have a respect and dedication to the history of the genre.

The Raíces Latin Music Collection is dedicated to the musical, cultural, and historical preservation of Latin music, particularly the Afro-Caribbean forms commonly referred to as Salsa. Founded in l979 by musician/educators Louis Bauzo, Ramon Rodriguez, and Joe Conzo, Raices is an early-stage museum holding the largest and most diverse collection in the country devoted to the evolution of Latin music. A designated Official Project of Save Americas Treasures and an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, Raices has since grown into an unprecedented multimedia collection of more than 17,000 items.

Located in East Harlem, a primary birthplace of the music, Raíces is engaged in four distinct areas of programming: preservation and expansion of its Collection, public education and outreach, and capacity building for access by national audiences. Alongside its efforts to preserve and process the collection, the Harbor Conservatory uses the materials contained in Raices to instruct and mentor the next generation of Latin musicians.

Raices is a program of the Harbor Conservatory, an internationally renowned multi-disciplinary performing arts school that is a division of Boys & Girls Harbor, a multi-service agency providing educational, cultural and social services to the East and Central Harlem communities of New York City for 67 years.

The Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts, now in its 34th year, offers pre-professional training in the disciplines of dance, instrumental music, voice and drama to students ages 4-21. While the Conservatory prepares young people for careers in the arts, it also helps those who do not pursue this direction gain the skills and confidence that are needed to succeed in education, employment and positive family and community life. For more information on the Harbor Conservatory visit www.Harborconservatory.org

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc., founded in 1937 by Anthony Duke, is a sixty-seven-year-old multi-service youth agency positively affecting the lives of over 6,000 children and their families annually. The Harbor maintains its view of the primacy of the performing arts in the quest for a holistic and satisfying life for children and teens.

CONTACT:
Nina Olson
212/427-2244 ext. 577
nolson@theharbor.org

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