El Floridita Latin jazz thursdays

Latin Beat Magazine, March, 2003

WEST COAST BEAT

L-R: Moñongo, Sal Cracchiolo, Ismael Carlo, Michito Sánchez, Ralph Garay and Joey De León (front) at El Floridita Restaurant's Latin jazz jam night

Top: Etiseo and Joey de León Left: Mañongo

Oskar Cartaya at the La Bella booth

Third from left: Little Johnny Rivero, Giovanni Hidalgo, El Negro Hernández and Rudy Mangual

Chuck Sher and friend at Sher Music booth

Armando Peraza and Giovanni Hidalgo jam at the LP booth

EAST COAST BEAT

Conjunto Imagen (right) and Los Hermanos Moreno play to crowded dance floors at Le Bar Bat and Club babalu in New York (Photos: Rob Bernberg)

Telemundo's Maria Del Pilaf welcomes Luisito Ayala, Puerto Rican Power and Banda Loca to ASPIRA's Pennsylvania Gala 2003 Photos: Rob Bernberg)

India and Emilio Estefan

Top: Chico Alvarez and Susie Hansen at New York's Club Bablu

Right: Radio personality Nelson Radamés Rodríguez welcomes Susie Hansen to City College public radio

Left: Aurora Flores dancing bomba at one of the jams Below: Nicholasa Mohr, reading from one of her books to a New York Background on Fabric

Still the only place in East Harlem for Poetry, Dance, Live Music & Art All Under One Roof

Author Nicholasa Mohr, Nuyorican Poets, Open Mic, YerbaBuena musiciaans and Art at Taller Boricua's Thursday Night Jams

Stories from East Harlem, dancing and Afro-Caribbean music and Nuyorican poetry and prose combine to create New York's most diverse cultural corner. Open mic for young poets and writers starts at 7:30 to 8:30; Literary reading by Nicholasa Mohr from 8:30 to 9 p.m.; all this takes place in the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center's Main Art Gallery where you can view the digital works of Fernando Salicrup, Marcos Dimas and others.

Thursday, February 6th from 7-12 midnight Exhibit begins at 7 pm sharp and the first Thursday of every month after that Taller Boricua (Puertorican Workshop) Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, 1680 Lexington Ave. (bet. 105th & 106th) $5 admission Visit the website: www.tallerboricua.org or call 212.831.4333