Join us for Bomba de Aqui on Friday, July 11th. Doors open at 6 pm.
*Refreshments will be served
Bomba de Aqui is led by Brendaliz Cepeda Peñaloza and her husband Saul “El Pulpo” Peñaloza. Bomba de Aqui is a traditional folkloric Bomba and Plena group dedicated to the education and preservation of Puerto Rican folkloric art and history.
The Cepeda Peñaloza family have history and training in BombVarsitya dating back centuries. Mrs. Brendaliz Cepeda Peñaloza is the great-granddaughter of the late Rafael Cepeda Atiles a composer and founder of the Puerto Rican folkloric group called “Grupo Folklorico Trapiche.” Don Cepeda is considered “The patriarch of Bomba and Plena.” Mr. Saul ”El Pulpo” Peñaloza received his training in Bomba and Plena in Loiza Puerto Rico from the Ayala and Cepeda families.
Puerto Rican Bomba, both a traditional dance and musical style of Puerto Rico, is the first native music of Puerto Rico, created in the sugar plantations by slaves more than 400 years ago. The slaves from different African tribes, through this music, could communicate. It encompasses Puerto Rican elements of the Taínos (Arawaks) like the Maraca and Cuás (2 wooden sticks previously played at the side of the Bomba Barrel), and Spanish and African native footsteps in the dancing. Bomba, a collage of arts representing the Puerto Rican cultural mix and interactive relationship between dancers, percussionists, and singers, today has evolved into a communal expression of Afro-Puerto Rican culture, practiced in its centers of origin in Loíza, Santurce, Mayagüez and Ponce.
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