Ruben Blades News

Join the Bryant Park Dance Party 2024 for dance instruction and live music featuring Bachata, Disco, Lindy Hop, Latin Festival and more.

Five Boroughs Music Festival announces its Spring 2024 Season with three diverse programs showcasing the richness of NYC's five boroughs.

The 6th Annual Highmark Blues & Heritage Festival will present Bobby Rush and Eric Gales on November 3, and Pete Escovedo featuring Nestor Torres and Omara Portuondo on November 4. The festival celebrates the blues and Latin music, showcasing talented artists from different generations and genres. Get all the details here!

Get ready for the world premiere of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB at Atlantic Theater Company. Find out when the show is running and how to secure your tickets for this must-see event.

Find out who will be starring in and behind the scenes of 'The Band's Visit,' the highly anticipated musical coming to the Huntington Theatre in Boston this November.

Get a sneak peek into the upcoming season at Atlantic Theater Company. From world premieres to bilingual musicals, stay updated on the diverse range of productions hitting the stage in the 2023-2024 season.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running August 21 - September 3rd.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running from August 14 - August 27, celebrating Charlie Parker's birthday all month long! 

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced jazz programming running July 10 through July 23.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this July with a full slate of nightly performances! 

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced programming running July 3 through July 16. 

The High Line's popular ¡Arriba! returns for the summer on Thursday, July 13 from 6 PM - 9 PM. This free evening of music and movement will take place on the High Line's Chelsea Market passage between 15th and 16th Streets, New York, NY 10011.

Created in 2009 and led by distinguished trumpeter, jazz historian, and music educator, Steven Oquendo, The Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra (SOLJO) is a force to be reckoned with. This bold big band is made up of 19 superbly talented guardians of Latin music.

A midtown tradition since 2014, Dance Party returns to Bryant Park this summer! Now entering into its ninth year, the beloved series offers park goers in-person dance events in a variety of styles throughout the first three weeks of May.

The Huntington and SpeakEasy Stage will co-produce the Tony Award-winning musical The Band’s Visit which features music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Itamar Moses, as part of their respective 2023-2024 seasons.

They keep bodies on the dance floor with a nitty gritty, vintage groove while keeping heads turning with experimental synth tones and electronic textures. They have a fierce, almost punk rock DIY ethos that pervades their attitude and style, releasing their records independently or on tastemaker labels like Merge, Fat Beats and Electric Cowbell.

Famed Argentine dancer/choreographer Guillermina Quiroga, one of the world's leading tango dancers, will be joined by her longtime partner, Mariano Logiudice, dancers Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes, and the Latin Grammy award-winning Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet (bass, violin, bandoneon, piano) in Tango in Concert, a brilliant program that brings to life the passion, soul and beauty of Argentine tango.

Tony Award nominees Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh's newest collaboration LOS OTROS, recently opened at A.R.T./New York Theatres (through October 8).  See photos of the cast greeting friends and family.

Audible Inc. has announced a new slate of original comedy podcasts with longtime collaborators, Broadway Video Enterprises. In addition to new originals, Audible greenlit the second season of the hit Audible Original, Hot White Heist.

The New York premiere production of Los Otros, a musical in one act with book & lyrics by Tony Award nominee Ellen Fitzhugh (Grind, Paradise Found) and music by five-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Giant), will star Luba Mason and Caesar Samayoa.