People of Earth:
American Timba Music
Thursday, May 9 | 7:00 PM
Bronx Music Hall
438 E 163rd St, Bronx, NY 10451
sunday, May 12, 2024 | 3:00 PM
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd, Queens
Our Spring 2024 festival continues with two dynamic concerts featuring the 13-person global music collective People of Earth in “American Timba Music,” a term coined by People of Earth to describe their distinctive repertoire that seamlessly weaves together influences from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Brazil, and Black American Music. The majority of the band’s compositions, prominently featured on their debut album “People of Earth,” are masterfully crafted by its own members. The set list also includes commissioned pieces from Cuban maestros Dafnis Prieto and Pachy Naranjo Jr, along with classic Cuban standards by luminaries such as Cesar Pedroso and Guillermo Rodríguez Fiffe as nods to Haitian Compas and Hip Hop. The performance, delivered in a blend of Spanish, English, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese, is a vibrant celebration of the rich and unifying heritage of the Americas and the Caribbean.
People of Earth is a global music collective quickly emerging as one of the United State’s most exciting latin and tropical bands, with an explosive blend of the music of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and beyond. The 13 musicians comprising this supergroup represent a cross-section of the world, boasting an array of some of the best musicians from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Canada, Switzerland, Haiti, Greece and more.
Formed in 2017, the band has performed at acclaimed venues including Disney Hall in LA, The Kennedy Center in D.C., The Kimmel Center and Mann Center in Philadelphia, and The New World Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. PoE, as the band is often referred to, has a frontline of three singers, backed by four horns, three percussionists, two keyboards, and electric bass. The band plays original music that blends influences from Cuban Timba and Rumba, Puerto Rican bomba and plena, Haitian Kompa, Brazilian MPB, and American soul, RnB, and hip hop, with songs in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Kreyole.
Join us on Thursday, May 9 at the Bronx Music Hall or on Sunday, May 12 at Flushing Town Hall in Queens and get ready to move to the music!
TICKETS
THURS 5.9.24
7:00 PM
Bronx Music Hall
TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA BRONX MUSIC HALL; INFO COMING SOON
SUN 5.12.24
3:00 PM
FLUSHING TOWN HALL
ARTISTS
PEOPLE OF EARTH
PEOPLE OF EARTH
People of Earth is a global music collective quickly emerging as one of the United State’s most exciting latin and tropical bands, with an explosive blend of the music of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and beyond. The 13 musicians comprising this supergroup represent a cross-section of the world, boasting an array of some of the best musicians from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Canada, Switzerland, Haiti, Greece and more.
Formed in 2017, the band has performed at acclaimed venues including Disney Hall in LA, The Kennedy Center in D.C., The Kimmel Center and Mann Center in Philadelphia, and The New World Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. PoE, as the band is often referred to, has a frontline of three singers, backed by four horns, three percussionists, two keyboards, and electric bass. The band plays original music that blends influences from Cuban Timba and Rumba, Puerto Rican bomba and plena, Haitian Kompa, Brazilian MPB, and American soul, RnB, and hip hop, with songs in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Kreyole.
In 2019 PoE partnered with Grammy Award winner and Musical America’s Conductor of the Year Teddy Abrams and won a grant from New Music USA to commission MacArthur Fellow Dafnis Prieto to compose a concerto for the band and string orchestra. The piece, entitled Tentacíon was premiered in 2022, with Maestro Abrams conducting, in a tour that included performances with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Britt Festival Orchestra.
People of Earth’s debut self-titled album was released in May of 2023 on the Truth and Revolution Records label, and features a guest appearance from acclaimed Brazilian singer Marcos Costa. The album’s nine tracks include seven original compositions by members of the group along with a cover of Djavan’s Te Devoro and Leonard Bernstein’s Mambo.