Cumbia for Kids/Cumbia for All is excited to have joined Midori and Friends as a part of their Celebrate Music! artist roster!
C4K continues their work with Flushing Town Hall’s Global Music for Global Kids program
Current
FALL 2025
- PS 144Q in Forest Park/Forest Hills, Queens 6-week residency
- Hispanic Heritage celebration performances:
- IS66Q-Corona, Queens 10/17/25
- Morristown Beard School 9/28/25 ( dance and drumming workshops, Lecture/Demo “Untold Tales”, All-School performance)
- Bound Brook High School, NJ 9/30/25
- Port Washington Middle School 10/1/25
SPRING 2026/
- Farragut Middle School residency, Hastings-on-Hudson TBA
Past
2024-25
- Mermaid Fest, Sleepy Hollow, NY – interactive Environment-themed performance -July ’25
- DOE Gala-New York School of Medicine June ’25
- PS 97 Forest Park-Midori and Friends Performance
- Greenwich Preschool-Interactive performance workshops
- 007K Midori and Friends performance May ’25
- PS 329Q-Residency Winter 2024-25
- Farragut Middle School all-day residency and performance Feb ’25
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PS 54Q (Hillside, Queens)-Midori and Friends Pre and Post-Concert Workshops, K-2 All Grade performance 1/10/24PS 144Q (Forest Hills, Queens)-Flushing Town Hall 8-wk Residency, Student performance 1/19/24
Hispanic Heritage 2023-Westchester
- Ossining Park School-All school assemblies Sept. 27
- Mount Kisco Elementary
- Elmsford Elem. Schools
- Cumbia for Kids “Recycle, Renewal, Rebirth” residency at Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow. . *Final performance June 8th at Kingsland Point Park. Special thanks to Tarrytown/SH Kids Club for the funds to provide scholarships to many of our workshop participants!
- June 2nd-Flushing Town Hall assemblies at PS144Q
- May 20, 2023 Cumbia for Kids at Pocantico’s Center’s Community Day
- Watch us LIVE from the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center:
- Cumbia for Kids at the DR Center, May 20, 2023
2022
- Premiere of “Brave New Frogs-Los Sapos Valientes” September 25, 2022
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022 Celebrations
- Jefferson Elem, New Rochelle (Sept 16, 2022)
- Hackley School workshops (Sept 2022)
- Morristown Beard, NJ (Oct-2022)
- Chappaqua Children’s Library (Oct 22-4pm, 2022)
- Ossining Park School (Oct 19, 2022)
- Bedford Village Elementary School (Oct 21, 2022)
- Sleepy Hollow Middle School (Nov 4, 2022)
FLOWER FEST/FIESTA DE FLORES (March 29-May 31)
- Spring Outdoor Residency @ Kingsland Point Park, Sleepy Hollow, NY
WINTER/SPRING 2022/School residencies
- May 25th, C4K Assembly at Brooklyn
- SU Casa/Flushing Town Hall at Angelo Petromelis Senior Center, College Point, NY
- May/June 2022
- JHS185-C4K Dance residency, led by Daniel Fetecua with Lorena Ayub
- March-April 2022
- PS199Q (Presented by Flushing Town Hall) 7 week residency 11 classes K-2. Jan. 3-March 1Cumbia for ALL: Black is Beautiful/Sleepy Hollow Middle School Celebrates Diversity (Funded by ArtsAlive Grant/ArtsWestchester)
- March-April 2022
FALL 2021
- Kingsland Point Park FALL Let’s Create outdoor after school Residency Sept-Nov. 2021
FALL 2020-SPRING 2021
- Kingsland Point Park FALL Inside-OUT outdoor after school Residency Sept-Nov. 2020
- Flushing Town Hall virtual workshops and interactive performance video with students in California, Nebraska, and Queens~Spring 2021
- DOE-Folklore Urbano NYC interactive workshop series and performances in Brooklyn PS 133 and PS255 Spr 2021
FALL-WINTER 2019-2020
- Pocantico Schools performance for 3rd-8th grade-Oct 15, 2019
- Brearley Lower School performance-Oct 22, 2019
- PS 267-Oct-January (2nd grade)
- PS 20-Oct-January (1st Grade)
- PS 349Q-Jan-April (K)
PERFORMANCES 2019
- TARRYTOWN MUSIC HALL CUMBIA FOR KIDS SHOW! http://www.tarrytownmusichall.org
- 92nd St. Y Musical Introduction Series, March 19-21 2019
- https://www.92y.org/archives/discover-music-featuring-folklore-urbano
- PS 349 Jamaica-afterschool Kindergarten residency (TBMS community music program) Jan 24-begins
- PS 303Q-Forest Hills/Flushing Town Hall/CASA grant, 20 weeks, 2nd and 3rd grade afterschool residency
Jan-June 2019
- Spence Lower School 3rd grade 4-wk residency,January-February, performance Feb 13
- Tarrytown Music Hall Academy afterschool workshops, February-May
- Lenox Hill (St. Peter’s Church, Manhattan) Senior Center month-long residency and performance Jan-Feb
- PS 267 12 week residency, performance January 25, 2019
Spring-Fall 2018
- PS 20 lower east side, 10 week 1st and 2nd grade residency, performance January 11, 2019
- Bethany Arts (Ossining, NY) 8 week 3rd-4th grade afterschool residency, final performance June 8, 2018
- PS 20 (lower east side Manhattan) 1st grade TBMS community program residency
- PS 349 (Jamaica, Queens) K-2 grade TBMS community program residency
Fall-Winter 2017-2018
- Spence lower school 3rd grade (upper east side Manhattan)-month long biweekly residency-Jan 10-Feb 14
- Brooklyn Friends lower school assembly-Nov 29th
- PS 267 (E. 63rd, Manhattan) 2nd grade residency, 12 weeks-Sept-Jan
- PS 20 (lower east side Manhattan) 2nd grade residency-Jan 30th-
- PS 49 South Bronx-K-3rd grade workshops, March 26th
Spring-Summer 2017:
- August 1-Brick Church School summer program children’s presentation (upper east side Manhattan)
- July-Tarrytown Multi-Arts Camp Latin Music Afternoons-FULL
- June 19-Spence School Spanish intensive interactive performance workshop
- June 17-Cumbia for Kids interactive performance at Stepping Stones Museum in Norwalk, CT
- PS 20/NYC Lower East Side: 8 week residency 1st grade, final performance April 7, 2017
- PS 267-E. 63rd St., Mid-east side Manhattan
- 8-week residency with two 3rd grade classes, and three 2nd grade classes
- April 28th, 2017-Flushing Town Hall School Concerts-, 2017 SOLD OUT
- April 7-Final performance PS 20 Lower East Side/TBMS school residency
- April 5, 9am-11am-Flushing High School Cumbia for ALL music and dance performance-
- (visit our Folklore Urbano events page)
Summer 2016
- –Louis Armstrong-Wonderful World festival in Flushing Meadow Park, July 16th, 2016:
- “Family tent”-interactive performance workshop
- –Latin Music afternoons @ Multi Arts Camp/Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow, NY, July 11-30th
Past Residencies 2016:
- Final residency concert June 3rd, 9-11:15 am
- PS 20-Essex St. LES NYC
- 8 week-residency and final concert
- PS 267/NYC: 12 week residency, Final performance February 1, 2017
- PS 59-8-week residency with Kindergarten classes
- PS 267-8-week residency with 2nd and 3rd grade classes
- PS/IS 217-8-week residency with 3rd-5th grade classes, in-school and afterschool programs-9 consecutive years
Performances 2016
- –Brick Church School-interactive performances-June 15, 2016
- E. 92nd St., New York, NY
- –White Plains elementary assembly/Westchester, NY
- -Elisabeth Morrow School/NJ
- -Avenues the World School/NYC
- -PS 20/NYC
2007-2016
Turtle Bay Music School/Casa grant funded multi-year 8-16 week residencies
- PS 217
- PS 267/PS 59
- PS 20