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Here you have the best performances at Summerstage, including all the Latino acts presented citywide as part of the biggest festival in NYC. Summerstage runs until August 29th. Enjoy!

Los Gipsy Kings están en NYC y de gira nacional así como también Los Enanitos Verdes, Café Tacuba. Otra gira nacional es la de Marc Anthony, Chayanne & Marco A, Solis en su GIGANTES TOUR. Otro nombre que escucharán mucho es el de Rodríguez que pasará de nuevo por Nueva York como parte de su gira mundial. El Queens Museum continúa con su festival internacional al aire libre y los festivales SummerStage y Celebrate Brooklyn presentan sus últimos espectáculos. El conductor Pablo Heras-Casado participará en el Mostly Mozart Festival del Lincoln Center. Además, la compañía DoubleTake Dance se presenta en Summerstage y la bailaora Rebeca Tomás participa en el Between the Seas Festival, una iniciativa que promueve la cultura del area mediterranea. Y por supuesto, algunas recomendaciones del calendario del SOB's, DROM y Joe's Pub entre otros eventos musicales.

Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado leads this magnificent period-instrument ensemble in a joyful program that features the “consistently inventive and illuminating” (New York Times) keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout.

* GIGANTES TOUR : MARC ANTHONY, CHAYANNE & MARCO A. SOLIS > IZOD Center, NJ, Agosto 10 > Gira Nacional en Agosto > GIGANTES.

>> WILLIAMSBURG SALSA ORCHESTRA > Agosto 10

>> SOL VILLAGE HOSTED BY: ERIC ROBERSON, MUSIC BY THE COLLECTIVE > Agosto 15
>> AFRO LATIN CARIBBEAN NIGHT > Agosto 17
>> BACHATA AFTERWORK HAPPY HOUR > Agosto 20
>> SALSA GROOVE FEAT ALEX DIAZ SON DE CALLE >Agosto 31

* DOUBLETAKE DANCE > Summerstage > Manhattan East River Park > Agosto 17 > DANCE.

Vanessa Martínez Baños will lead her company in this outdoors presentation. DoubleTake Dance is a New York City based contemporary dance company that strives to connect with a wide range of audiences through fusions of movement that are accessible and understandable to both the dancer and non-dancer. 

We work to create choreography that is original and passionate; each piece as unique as the artists who interpret it.

* SUMMERSTAGE > Julio - Agosto > Citywide > SUMMER.

SummerStage brings over 100 performances to eighteen parks throughout the five boroughs. Performances range from pop, Latin and world music to dance, spoken word and theater.

These are some of the Latino Highlights!: José Alberto El Canario, Hector Acosta - Il Torito, Mala Rodriguez, Kinky, Ximena Sarinana, Bebel Gilberto, Félix Hernández, Our Latin Thing: Fania All stars, Tribute to Tito Puente, Paige Hernández, Yerbabuena, Henry Santos y el Pedrito Martinez Group. Yeah! Estupendo!

We have a post highlighting the events at SummerStage and an interview with its Musical Director, Erika Elliott > HERE.

* CELEBRATE BROOKLYN > Junio -Agosto > Brooklyn > CELEBRATE.

This 34th summer at the Prospect Park Bandshell consists of 32 shows, 25 of them free ($3 suggested). Latino Highlights will include: Ballet Hispánico, Calle 13, Ana Tijoux, Ritmo Machine, Arturo Sandoval, Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. The Bandshell is waiting!.

Other highlights are premieres of Slow Fade to Black and Women Waging Peace. Another great line-up this year. Have fun!

* MUSIC AT JOE'S PUB > Diego Garcia > Agosto 20 > JOE'S.

Prior to his successful solo career, Diego Garcia made his mark on the indie music scene as front man for the popular indie act Elefant. Drawing from his Argentine roots, he explores his Latin heritage on his new solo album 'Laura' with a sound that conjures the spirit of 1970’s troubadours like Sandro and Jobim as well as singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen and Harry Nilsson.
Garcia became a breakout star with the release of his debut solo album ‘Laura.’ NPR named Diego Garcia’s debut “one of the top 25 albums of the year (so far).” He was ‘Artist of the Month’ at tastemaker radio station WXPN-FM in Philadelphia and ‘CD of the Month’ at WFUV in New York City. He has performed live shows for key radio shows across the country, including KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic and WXPN’s World Café.
Garcia’s poignant first single “You Were Never There,” which was co-written by Dhani Harrison (George Harrison’s son) is a perfect example. With lush string arrangements, delicate Spanish guitars, and distinctly Latin flavor, the song is worlds apart from Garcia’s former band Elefant. “You Were Never There” was a Starbucks ‘Pick of the Week’ (750,000 download cards), marking one of the only times that Starbucks has ever selected a Latino artist for this special opportunity.

* Salsa Bachata Monthly Party > Astoria > By DJ Scotti > Agosto 17 > SALSA.

* Sunset Salsa 2012 with Talia > Every Thursdays in August > Chelsea Triangle > SALSA.

Sunset Salsa 2012 with Talia is on fire! This FREE outdoor festival continues every Thursday through August 30th, with beginner salsa lesson at 6.30pm and dancing al fresco til 9pm!

* MUSICA EN DROM > Agosto > DROM.

- Oscar Peñas > Agosto 17. 

Spanish born, New York based jazz guitarist and composer Oscar Peñas has been performing and recording since the early 2000s when he released two albums on Fresh Sound New Talent,Astronautus and The Return of the Astronautus. Both CDs featured original compositions in the format of an electric quintet.

Peñas’ most consistent output in the recent years has taken place in the trio format with Franco Pinna and Moto Fukushima. The sound palette of the group flows naturally between acoustic and electric textures with the recent and exciting classy addition of violinist Sara Caswell. Guitarist and composer Oscar Peñas epitomizes a new wave of emerging artists who are an integral part of New York’s flourishing music scene, his compositions transcend and yet merge different genres, cultures and styles with fluidity, garce and power. His style has been described at WNYC as “transnational cool”. Although, his music can be called “jazz”, it crosses the boundaries of traditional music labeling, blending the idiom through original compositions with hints of flamenco and South America grooves.

- GABRIEL ALEGRIA AFRO-PERUVIAN SEXTET > August 31.

One of the most influential figures on the current jazz scene in Perú, Gabriel Alegria was born into an artistic family in Lima in 1970. Alegria’s grandfather Ciro was Peru’s most famous novelist and his father Alonso is Perú’s most acclaimed playwright.
  Alegria combines his experience playing jazz as it developed in the U.S. with a passionate interest and careful study of the black music of coastal Perú. By incorporating and exploring the common African roots found in both styles, he has developed a uniquely Afro-Peruvian jazz music concept. The rich legacy of the black music of coastal Perú can be heard in a contemporary jazz context. In all of Alegria’s work, a cross-cultural exchange between the 
Americas is always present, carefully defining Afro-Peruvian jazz music as the newest voice to come from Latin America.

* RODRIGUEZ > Agosto 31 > Highline Ballroom NYC > En Gira Nacional > Rodriquez.

* El Festival River to River > Julio - Agosto > Hudson River Park > R2R.

* Governors Island! Summer Events! > Julio - Agosto >
GOVERNORS.