Jorge Santiago Arce

Image: Jorge Santiago Arce by Jeffrey Filiault

Grant Recipient

Image: Jorge Santiago Arce by Jeffrey Filiault

Location

Roxbury, MA

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Project Title

Cultural Plenazo-Bombazo Festival

Fiscal Year Awarded

2016

Grant or Program

Creative City Boston - Artist Grant

Grant Amount

$10,000

Mozart Park in Hyde Square, Jamaica Plain | June 30, 2016, 6:00-8:00 PM

Bring your tambourine, cowbell, voice, and guiro and “Let’s Plena” with Jorge Arce and the Raiz de Plena band. With members of the Bomba Sankofa Dance Troupe, Roberto and Gloria Cepeda, accompanied by world renowned percussionist Emdel Dueño, Community Plenazo & Bombazo Primaveral celebrates African ancestry in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean through ancient participatory music and dance.

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