Jose Oban and Musicians bring Salsa music to the Southern TIer

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The Friends of Good Music present JOSE OBANDO AND MUSICIANS: Ceremonial Origins of Salsa Salsa is an American music genre amalgamated by the Puerto Ricans in Spanish Harlem of New York City.  The Puerto Rican migration becomes the major adherent of Afro-Cuban and Afro- Puerto Rican music, readily absorbing new elements without losing any of the music’s identifying factors.  The program presents instruments, music, and lyrics used in the African, Taino and Spanish Catholic rituals that provide a base for Salsa. Jose Obando, the Salsa Consultant for the Musical Instrument Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his musicians perform a concert which will make the audience want to dance!