Bomba in Loiza, Puerto Rico #2
This is one of several videos that I will be posting from my trip to Puerto Rico in July 2008.
This clip features Bomba drummers and dancers at Raul Ayala's house in Loiza, during La Fiesta de Santiago Apostol.
Click watch in high quality for better picture & sound.
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Bomba in Loiza, Puerto Rico #1
This is one of several videos that I will be posting from my trip to Puerto Rico in July 2008.
This clip features Bomba drummers and dancers at Raul Ayala's house in Loiza, during La Fiesta de Santiago Apostol.
Click watch in high quality for better picture & sound.
El Ancón de Loíza - a #Fordistas Documentary
When the waters of the Caribbean meet the shores of Loiza, Puerto Rico they bring memories of traditions nearly lost. Juan Pablo Vizcaino is fighting to preserve the history of his family, his home and a way of life.
WATCH El Ancón de Loíza- a #Fordistas documentary - and help revitalize this cultural landmark by donating here:
Purpose Is | Edwin | Loiza, Puerto Rico
Purpose is to wake up and take care of my family, horse, animals and friends. - Edwin
By sharing these short clips we took of men we met in Loiza, Puerto Rico, we aim to represent a whole picture of what purpose looks like around the world.
For more videos and stories visit purposerosa.com/purpose
Bomba En Loiza, Puerto Rico at Beach Club House Piñones
Bomba, a traditional form of music and dance in Puerto Rico, serves as a foundation for modern Puerto Rican music and Salsa.
The music itself traces back to Ghana, the African country from which most Afro-Puerto Ricans are descendent. Bomba served as a social and political outlet for slaves under Spanish oppression, who often escaped to the sugar plantations to dance during the night.
Bomba owes its survival largely to the Cepeda family, which has devoted itself to preserving the music and dance for over 80 years.
As you can hear in the background, Bomba performances involve the use of several different instruments. Typical Bomba ensembles consisted of 2-3 differently pitched drums, a maraca, and a pair of sticks cau that tap a fixed rythmn.
During the drumming a solo singer, often a female, leads a chorus in call and response. Typical songs celebrate nature, describe life in the community, or recall the hardships of slavery.
As slavery was abolished Bomba lost its functional significance, but thanks to the Cepeda family it lives on as traditional music and dance of Puerto Rico.
Bomba Loiza - Dolores
La Familia Parilla de Loiza
YEAR OF RECORDING 1971
RECORD LABEL Folkways Records
SOURCE ARCHIVE Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
CREDITS Recorded by Henrietta Yurchenco ; Produced by Henrietta Yurchenco ; Recorded by Peter Gold ; Recorded by Peter Yurchenco ; Design by Ronald Clyne
Slabtown Festival 2010
Over the past three years, support of the Slabtown Community Festival has been tremendous. The neighborhood came together, participating as volunteers, merchants and festival-goers. For the 4th Annual event, we're expanding to TWO DAYS! That's right, we've partnered with Musicfest NW and will stage some great musical acts from that popular festival at our NW 23rd & Savier site both Friday and Saturday nights from 6-10pm. Saturday afternoon, we'll again celebrate the people, art and history of neighborhood with all kinds of family fun and activities, as in previous years. Planning is underway and the dates are set for Friday and Saturday, September 10-11, 2010.
We are confident that businesses within the community will again get involved en masse, and at a level that fits their particular situation. Opportunities are greater than ever to participate in and profit from the vastly increased crowds that are anticipated to attend (see attachments). Be a Slabtown sponsor and host a booth. Make an in-kind donation or volunteer your employees to help out at the festival. We need your creativity and support!
This year's historic theme for the Saturday afternoon component of the Festival will be the art and, in particular, musical heritage of Northwest Portland, which will be commemorated through exhibits and live performances. The overall focus of this family-oriented festival is to cultivate a greater sense of community by introducing Slabtown's new arrivals with longtime residents, connecting the neighborhood's current vitality with its remarkable past, and gathering the young and old, and business owner to business owner. Festival offerings, such as a rock climbing wall, face-painting, merchant and vendor booths, Slabtown history exhibits, a beer garden and live music and theater will appeal to all ages. Proceeds from the festival will fund Slabtown history programs and projects, and Friendly House.
So what the heck is Slabtown, anyway?
Slabtown gets its name from the enormous quantities of slab wood—the rounded, exterior parts of a log cut away to square off lumber--that were produced as a popular form of heating fuel in the early 1900s by lumber mills of the neighborhood. Slabtown has been a cohesive residential community, distinguished by a mixed ethnic component, since the 1850s. It encompasses the area roughly from NW 16th Avenue to Montgomery Park and from the Willamette River to NW Pettygrove. Landmarks of old Slabtown include the site of the 1905 World's Fair, St. Patrick's Church, the ESCO steel foundry, Chapman School, and the Vaughn Street Baseball Park, home of Portland's Pacific Coast League club, the Beavers until 1955.
Roots of the Festival
Friends and fellow Slabtown history enthusiasts, Mike Ryerson (NW Examiner) and Tim Hills (McMenamins Pubs), organized a gathering in January 2006 for a number of the old, Croatian residents of Slabtown, most of whom shared ties to St. Patrick's Church and the Vaughn Street Baseball Park. The gathering coincided with the visit of one of Slabtown's most famous sons, Johnny Pesky, the Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer. The gathering proved to be such a special event that Ryerson and Hills vowed to greatly expand the idea. One result was the organization of public tours led by Ryerson and Hills along the NW 23rd corridor, emphasizing the neighborhood's rich history. Further inspired by the popularity of the tours, the two men initiated plans for an all-inclusive community celebration of Slabtown's heritage and present-day vitality.
As the festival has continued to grow, Mike and Tim launched another project to help celebrate and make better known the neighborhood history. Called Slabtown Picture Shows, it is an informal lecture and slide show of the heritage and evolution of NW 23rd Avenue. The program proved quite popular and has been presented several times at the Mission Theater, The Oregon Jewish Museum and the Northwest branch library.
AfriCaribe at Navy Pier
AfriCaribe at Navy Pier performing Bomba. Rhythms of Yuba and Cuembe: Rule Sonda and Miserere Congo Misiè.
Hurricane Maria: A la Mano por Puerto Rico interview
Credit: Airman 1st Class Franklin Harris | Date Taken: 10/29/2017
Jennifer Nogueras, part of the National Volleyball team of Puerto Rico, explains how A La Mano por Puerto Rico was created and its mission to help with Hurricane Maria relief Efforts and Hylda de Jesus Ubiles talks about the damage to her home, Humacao, Puerto Rico, Oct. 28, 2017. Joint teams of Puerto Rico and federal government officials, alongside local officials and voluntary agencies, are working in communities to help the people of Puerto Rico on their long road to recovery. (US Air Force video by Airman 1st Class Franklin Harris)
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Sin casa 79 personas en Loíza, PR
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(se comprará todo lo que haga Falta)
FIESTAS DE LOIZA EN CT..{by ISLA ENT.}
FIESTAS DE LOIZA EN NEW HAVEN..CONJUNTO PLENA LIBRE EN TARIMA..
Puerto Rico Ocean View Property- A Paradise!
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Tato Laviera Tribute
A Tribute to Tato Laviera from the many poet pioneers that have pushed the spoken word movement, neo poets, friends and family all came together in honor of Tato Laviera.
Nuestra Bodega's July 16, 2011 BombaYo Plena Fundraiser.https://www.facebook.com/drdrumny
Nuestra Bodega, Featuring BombaYo.org Community Organizer And Artist's. Nuestra Bodega's mission is to improve quality of life by providing services that contribute to the well being and vitality of a community by educating, empowering and strengthening families within the Lower East Side.
Nuestra Bodega is the birth child of La Bodega de la Familia. On October 2008 La Bodega de la Familia closed it's doors to the Lower East Side Community indicating that they were a demonstration project who successfully completed their agenda. Unfortunately it left a void on the Lower East Side and as the Former Program Director with the support of my co-Founder Carmen Roman Medina and Community advocate Ana Nazario,
I decided to return to the Lower East Side and uplift a community still confronted and struggling with drug addictions, unemployment, lack of education, HIV/AIDS, incarceration/ReEntry and gentrification.
Nuestra Bodega will help fill the voids by providing diverse services such as case management, computers, groups & resources for families on the Lower East Side. Nuestra Bodega will be staffed by genuinely heartfelt group of professional individuals that aim for a better and brighter tomorrow.See More
Mission Nuestra Bodega's mission will improve quality of life and contribute to the well being and vitality of a community by educating, empowering and strengthening families within the Lower East Side.
Services Provided, Case Management, Re Entry, Computers, Groups, Informational and Empowering Events and Resources.
Founder's: Tina Santiago & Carmen Roman Medina
PO Box 20212, New York, NY 10009
Piñones 2014 Puerto Rico 1080p
Luego de haber visitado el Yunque, nos fuimos para Piñones.
Bomba at AfriCaribe: Puerto Rican Fest. 2013
Melissa singing, Noni, Felicitas, and Ale dancing!
AFRO BORICUA CULTURAL TOURS
856-873-1595 AFRO BORICUA CULTURAL TOURS is the offspring of True Asiatic and Skai Davis, formally of The Yabba Pot Café in Baltimore, MD. True and Skai have already hosted three tours in Puerto Rico and are excited to offer this specialized tour which celebrates the rich African culture that Puerto Rico has melded with.
After moving to Puerto Rico in 2009, True and Skai realized that Puerto Rico's African heritage is such an integral part of the larger Puerto Rican society, that they felt it would be exciting to share it, in the form of a package, with the world. Much of what would be considered culturally Puerto Rican is merged with a huge African experience and history.
Alma Abreu states that, The average tourist visiting Puerto Rico never learns about the African history that is vivid and alive throughout the island. Too often, the Spanish and indigenous Taino roots of Puerto Rico are highlighted to tourists while the African heritage is left unspoken. For many years, the Black history of Puerto Rico was even missing from Puerto Rico's history books. Thankfully as a new generation of conscious Puerto Ricans, both Black and mixed explore their African heritage, this erasure is ending.
One of our excursions will be to El Museo de Nuestra Raiz Africana (the Museum of our African Roots) located in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is where you can learn about the African cultural influence of Puerto Rico. This heritage is celebrated through paintings, artifacts, documents and photographs. According to the museum brochure, one of the aims of the museum is to preserve, collect, document and spread the history and culture of Puerto Rico that grew out of the Black population's experience on the island.
The museum exhibit is arranged in a chronological order documenting the origin, background and arrival of the African slaves to Puerto Rico. On the first floor the various ethnic groups of the slaves from West and Central Africa are listed such as the Ashanti, Yoruba, Bantu and Congo. There are drawings depicting the middle passage and the brutal treatment of the slaves once on the sugar plantations. Documents and pictures from the 16th and 17th centuries paint a very real picture of the mistreatment of African slaves by the Spaniards, a fact that many Puerto Ricans have failed to acknowledge.
African History in Puerto Rico began with the immigration of African Freemen who arrived with Spanish Conquistadors. This article gives the reader a very sincere view of the African and its melding with Puerto Rican Culture: African Aspects of the Puerto Rican Personality by (the late) Dr. Robert A. Martinez, Baruch College. We consider it required reading:
We will not only attempt to explore the rich African heritage of the island, but we will also engage you in the islands environmental gem....Nature! El Yunque Rainforest gets its name from an Indian spirit Yuquiye, which means Forest of Clouds, which gave the mountain that dominates the 28,000 acre of tropical forest. It is the only tropical forest in the United States National Forest System. Originally set aside in 1876 by the Spanish Crown, the Forest represents one of the oldest reserves in the Western Hemisphere. With over 240 species (26 species are found nowhere else) of trees and plants, give reason to the government of Puerto Rico to spend a great deal of moneymaking to preserve floral species and animals that are on the verge of extinction.
With Robin Phillip, our tour guide, we will embark on a half day hike that follows the track of a 75 year old mountain Railroad built by 2000 men over a period of 4 years to bring electricity to the area by connecting 4 rivers to a 1929 turbine generator still in use today. Learn the secrets of Puerto Rico's lost animals and native people, why we receive one of the world's largest rainfalls and have the cleanest air and water left on earth. Visit one of the most beautiful and remote waterfalls in Puerto Rico where the still virgin fauna offers a peek into the jungles of past times. Weather permitting, scale the rock falls and ascend to a secluded jungle pool for a swim where water is the purest left on the earth. After this hike you will be forever indebted to the earth and all she gives us!
Throw in some Night Life, Salsa and Bomba Dancing, Shopping and of course THE BEACH! This Trip will be the most adventurous and educationally uplifting you have ever been on!!
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