Free Outdoor Performance by Plena Libre and Dance Class
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Plena Libre
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024
Time: 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Class
Cost: Free
Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents an Outdoor Performance by Plena Libre on Friday, September 6, 2024 on the Moss Arts Center Lawn.

Schedule of Events:
• 5:00-5:30 PM: Dance Class
• 6:00 PM: Plena Libre in Concert

Puerto Rican band Plena Libre brings an unrivaled, energy-filled outdoor dance party to the Moss Arts Center lawn.

The trailblazing Plena Libre has been thrilling international audiences for nearly three decades. Masters of the plena and bomba styles, the group brilliantly infuses traditional and contemporary music with Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms, creating an electrifying stage performance. With mesmerizing hand drumming, raucous horns, and soaring three-part vocal harmonies, this band always brings the heat.

Embodying the soul of Puerto Rico, Plena Libre has performed everywhere from Morocco’s Fez Festival to the Playboy Jazz Fest and Lincoln Center. With over 15 albums and four Grammy and Latin Grammy Award nominations under its belt, the band is celebrating its 30th anniversary as San Juan, Puerto Rico’s torch-bearing and pioneering masters of plena, bomba, son, and salsa.

Founder, bandleader, and bassist Gary Nuñez and his group have revived the plena sound for a new generation, thrilling audiences with horns, drums, and dance. Featuring three vocalists singing lush melodies — with an assertive, tight, yet sensitive style and balancing the traditional with the contemporary, global, and local — Plena Libre delivers a live performance that will keep you on your feet.

Links:

• https://www.plenalibre.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/plenalibreinfo
• https://www.youtube.com/@plenalibrepr/videos
• https://www.instagram.com/plenalibrepr/

Join us an hour before the performance to learn dance moves from Plena Libre members themselves from 5:00-5:30 PM.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is located at 330 Turner Street NW in Blacksburg, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/wMw9Jpn3/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/plena-libre.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.