¡Batey Boricua! Featuring NYC’s Redobles de Cultura

Doors open at 4pm / Event begins at 4:30pm

$10 in Advance / $15 at the Door / Children and Youth (under 18): Sliding Scale $5-$10

La Peña Cultural Center and the Bay Area Bomba y Plena Workshop present a very special
¡BATEY BORICUA! featuring REDOBLES de CULTURA from New York City!

The event will feature a community Bombazo jam with the participation Redobles de Cultura and will include a performance by our featured artists.

Plus, we’ll have delicious Puerto Rican food for sale: Authentic Boricua flavors by CaliRican Catering!

ABOUT REDOBLES DE CULTURA:
Redobles de Cultura (RDCNYC) is a collective of top New York City-based Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba practitioners: Julia Gutiérrez-Rivera, Nicky “Caja Dura” Laboy, Nelson Matthew González and Nina Rodriguez. They are proud members of today’s “new” and younger generation of Bomberos, cultural workers and educators. Collectively, the RDC ensemble has 50 years of teaching and performing experience, as part of several notable Bomba and Plena ensembles, including Los Pleneros de la 21, Alma Moyo, Legacy Women, Ilu Aye, Yerba Buena and more. Each member–weaned with the cultural and traditional practices of Puerto Rico and the Afro-Caribbean from a very early age–embodies the ancestral knowledge of their elders. Throughout the years, they have toured internationally to: Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Thailand, Singapore, France, Africa, the Dominican Republic and more.
Working alongside each other for more than 15 years with other groups and initiatives, the trio officially came together as RDCNYC in November 2016 to offer community engagement and presentations to audiences of all ages and backgrounds…this time through the eyes of first generation “DiaspoRicans”, who can pair the foundational knowledge of their elders with the aesthetics, styles and realities of urban and diaspora perspectives. RDC has since successfully produced a breakout tour (Fall 2017) which took them across 9 states, working in partnership with 24 host organizations, recorded 2 music tracks, and offering 26 events (workshops, classes and performances) to a direct audience of over 2,000 people.
RDC proudly continues the work of their parents and ancestors, as it is not only their honor but their duty to celebrate and transmit the richness of the Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Boricua expressions with communities worldwide.