Wednesday, October 9
7 PM Festival Opening/Panel-Demonstration, Moderator:
Juan Flores
Repertory Theater
BomPlenazo 2002 opens
with a panel-demonstration exploring the role of bomba y
Free
plena in contemporary life in Puerto Rico and New York with musicians,
dancers
and cultural activists Juan Gutiérrez, Norma Cruz, Juan Cartagena, Carlos Torres,
José
Emmanuelli Nater, Tito Cepeda, Roberto Cepeda and Héctor “Tito” Matos.
Thursday, October 10—Saturday October 12
10 AM – 9 PM
Crafts Market & Exhibition
Atrium
Master artisans from Puerto Rico and the
northeast exhibit and sell their work.
Free
Food, impromptu music and continuous
screenings of bomba documentaries.
Thursday, October 10
5:30 – 7 PM
Vejigante Mask-Making Demonstration
Room C391
Master craftsman Benny Ayala demonstrates making vejigante masks
of Ponce
7:30
PM
Viento de Agua, Los Pleneros de Severo
and Los
Instantáneos
Main Theater
New York’s high-energy plena
fusion group in concert with one of the most
Adm: $15, $12
innovative plena groups in Puerto Rico and the traditional
ensemble from Casita
Rincón Criollo in the Bronx.
Friday, October 11
5:30 – 7 PM
Instrument-Making Demonstration
Room C391
Craftsmen Benny Ayala and José “Chema” Soto demonstrate how to make
the
Free
barriles of bomba and the panderettas of plena. Juan
Cartagena moderates.
7:30
PM
Los Pleneros de la 21
and Truco y Zaperoko
Main Theater
“LP21,” New York’s foremost bomba y plena group, under the
direction of National
Adm: $15; $12
Heritage Fellow Juan Gutiérrez, and Puerto Rico’s new plena
jazz group.
Click here to see photo album.
Saturday, October 12
10 AM
Bomba Percussion & Dance Workshop
Room C391
Members of the Cepeda family offer a two-hour workshop on bomba dance and
Free
percussion.
1
– 3:30 PM
Pleneros, Pleneros y Más Pleneros
Repertory Theater
An afternoon of some of the best
plena groups in the northeast, including Yerba
Free
Buena, Segunda Quimbamba, Plena Luna and Viento de Agua
Unplugged.
7:30 PM
Plena Libre and Los Cepedas
Main Theater
From Puerto Rico, composer/arranger Gary Nuñez's stellar plena ensemble
which is
Adm: $15; $12
at the vanguard of new plena groups, and three generations of the Cepeda family,
Puerto Rico's pre-eminent practitioners of bomba.
Click Here to see photo album
Sunday, October 13
12 - 6 PM
Vente-tú (block party/jam) and Plena Contest
Rincon Criollo An
afternoon of jamming and continuous performances with all the participants
of the
festival at Casita Rincón Criollo , Brook Ave. & 158 St., Bronx.
Afternoon's activities
will include a plena-composing contest among participants in a plena composition
and
poetry workshop offered earlier in the month by master plenero Hugo
Ascencio
Tickets
& information: 718-518-4455
Orchestra seat package price for all three concerts: $36
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