La Raza Latina at Lincoln Center New York

Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by Hector Aviles in Blog

With this blog I’m introducing a new format of communicating = video blogs. This is my 1st video blog, and it shows! I made several mistakes in recording my piece and then had tons of learning issues with the video software. Yet dispite all that, I hope you find the video blog of La Raza Latina at Lincoln Center New York to be of decent quality.

La Raza Latina was presented this past August 14th live at Lincoln Center as part of a summer program by the City of New York, and offered free to the people that come first to fill the outdoor space. The capacity of the outdoor place was estimated at just over 4,000 people, but some attendees estimate that with the people listening from outside the door, the crowd was approximately 20,000; enough to fill the Madison Square Garden and by far the biggest crowd to these type of events organized by the Lincoln Center of New York.

In the video blog I talk about the event, which was anchored musically by Bobby Sanabria’s big band, with musical guests like Chembo Corniel, Ralph Irizarry, Lewis Kahn, Pete Nater, Sam Burtis, and Cuban singer Adonis Puentes taking the place of Nestor Sanchez, and Ruben Blades reprising his singing role in La Raza Latina Salsa Suites.

I also have part of a video interview that the site My Latino Voice did with Larry Harlow for this event. I hope to be able to get an interview with El Judio Maravilloso, Larry Harlow, so that we can talk about any possible future plans for La Raza Latina the Live show and other plans Harlow has for the near future.