La Manga | Cumbia Colombiana
LA MANGA, a cultural lab, celebrates the Caribbean musical diaspora, blending Colombian, Puerto Rican, and Venezuelan influences. It honors black and indigenous traditions with Afro-Colombian drums and storytelling dances, led by a women artists collective.
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm (First Set)
10:00 pm to 11:00 pm (Second Set)
Admission: $20: Cover charge for mezzanine.
Featuring:
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Andrea Chavarro / Vocals and maracas
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Katherine Ocampo / Percussion; vocals
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Lina Silva / Vocals; percussion
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Daniela Serna / Percussion; vocals and direction.
About La Manga:
La Manga is a cultural identity laboratory inspired by the spirit and ancestry of the great Caribbean musical diaspora where Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela meet. Honoring Black and Indigenous oral traditions, this Brooklyn-based collective of women artists — Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola, Andrea Chavarro, Katherine Ocampo, and Lina Silva — delivers bold, magnetic, and undeniably danceable performances rooted in cumbia, tambora, chandé, and rap, driven by tambor alegre, llamador, and maracas. Culturally authentic and universally engaging, La Manga ignites the stage with the pulsating heart of Afro-Caribbean Colombian tradition. Follow them on Instagram @lamangabk.
About Daniela Serna:
Daniela Serna (aka @akupercu) is a New York–based Colombian artist, percussionist, songwriter, and educator rooted in Caribbean oral traditions such as cumbia and bullerengue. For over two decades, she has traveled throughout Colombia to study with Cultural Bearers Emilsen Pacheco, Petrona Martínez, Martina Camargo, and Los gaiteros de San Jacinto. Her work is shaped by female collectives, from La Perla’s “Mejor Grupo Aficionado” win at the 2015 Festival Nacional de Gaitas Francisco Llirene, marking the first win by a Bogotá female band. to performing internationally with LADAMA, featured on NPR Tiny Desk