Los Pleneros de la 21

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LOS PLENEROS DE LA 21, formed in the South Bronx, New York City, in 1983 by National Heritage Fellow, Juan Gutiérrez-Rodriguez, is a group which has spanned three generations of Puerto Rican musicians, dancers, and artisans dedicated to performance of BOMBA and PLENA, two styles of Puerto Rican music which springs from deeply rooted African traditions. The group consists of traditional practitioners and professional musicians who have been deeply influenced and formed in the traditional performance and execution of Bomba and Piena, coming together to keep their traditions alive. Not only do they play, sing, and dance, but they make their own instruments. The name evokes the place of origin of its members, the now gone Parada 21 (Bus Stop 21), a predominantly Black neighborhood in the Santurce municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico that produced many of the island's most accomplished interpreters of Bomba and Plena. LOS PLENEROS, which means Plena practitioner-musicians, are, according to ethnomusicologist Nick Spitzer "widely admired as the premiere Bomba and Plena group". LOSPLENEROS were also the first New York-based Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena group to perform at world-renowned Carnegie Hall. Though LOS PLENEROS have performed at such renowned stages as Symphony Space, Lincoln Center; at such important festivals as the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, the International Folklore Festival in Russia; Hawaiian Tour, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Westcan Jazz FesVva

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