Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month With Music In Ocean City

OCEAN CITY, NJ — October is Hispanic Heritage Month, and you can celebrate with Puerto Rican traditional music and dance with the Ocean City Arts Center.

The show features Bomba and Plena music by Los Bomberos de la Calle from the Philly Bomba Plena Cultural Center. The event will be held on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. at Ocean City Intermediate School, 1801 Bay Ave. in Ocean City. It is family-friendly, free and open to the public.

Los Bomberos De La Calle is a Musical Group who performs traditional and contemporary styles of Bomba & Plena music from Puerto Rico. For this event, they will feature all traditional music. They regularly perform and offer workshops throughout the year in schools and community centers throughout the Delaware Valley. They have performed in the annual Philadelphia Hispanic Heritage Festival, the annual Feria de Barrio Festival, annual Sugar Cane Festival, Kimmel Center’s “Songs Left Behind,” The Mann Center, and many more.

The mission of the group’s parent organization, Philly Bomba Plena Cultural Center, is to preserve, present and educate the community with the vibrant, energetic and soul music from Puerto Rico. This music is the music of the people and brings everyone together young and old.

Visit the Ocean City Arts Center website at oceancityartscenter.org for more information and to reserve your seat, or call (609) 399-7628.