Los Pleneros de la 21
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm Los Pleneros de la 21 (“LP21”), an Afro-Puerto Rican bomba and plena ensemble featuring musicians, dancers, and artisans, returns to New Mexico for a four-day National Performance Network (NPN) residency, Redobles de Cultura Boricua, which will include workshops and other activities as well as the group’s concert at the NHCC. LP21’s complex, multi-part vocal harmonies, set to the rhythms of hand-held plena drums and barrel-shaped bomba drums, resurrect the African-rooted bomba and plena musical styles of Puerto Rico. Billboard praised the band for its “exhilaratingly (more...)
