J-LO is running behind a pack of Latina Actresses up for recognition
in the New Edge Mambo

Hip Hop poll. Will her loyal forces rally and shoot her straight to
the top? Vote today at

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In the meantime:

RUSH OF HIP HOP SALSA STARS FOR MAMBO TO HIP HOP N BRONX PREMIERE
TUESDAY 31st

A who's who list of mambo era, salsa, graffiti and hip hop stars are
on tap for Tuesday May 31 screening of the City Lore documentary
Mambo to Hip Hop at Café Lou's 7:30 pm in the North Bronx 3060
Boston Road – by Burke Avenue intersection (718)798-2177 or (917)
918-0470.

Old School and New school will meet for the hour long film which
features a treasure trove of moving images, music and info
stretching back to the glory days of the Hunts Point Palace and
Inferno; plus other historic moments both in Salsa and Hip Hop
history.

Don't miss this opportunity to see how dancers, musicians and fans
from both eras of wild style Hip Hop and Latin mambo music continue
a legacy of being the ultimate revolutionaries by creating art forms
that have impacted both the US and Global mainstream. This screening
is FREE. Promoters of a June 11th screening are charging twenty
dollars with limited parking, small screen and tight seating.

CAFÉ LOUS HAS UNLIMITED PARKING IN THE AREA – A GREAT BAR AND WIDE
SCREEN FILM DISPLAY.

New Edge Theater's director Luis Chaluisan is featured as the
documentaries narrator and appears as an interview subject in the
hour long film scheduled for wide release by January 2006.

THE TRAILER FOR "MAMBO TO HIP HOP" IS CURRENTLY FEATURED ON
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Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Story features: Ray Barretto, Benny
Bonilla, Orlando Marin, Manny Oquendo, Willie Colon, Africa
Bambaata, Charlie Chase, Fabel, Luis Chaluisan (El Extreme), Kid
Freeze, Track II, Trace, Bom 5, Sandra Maria Esteves, Bobby Sanabria
and more.

The schools and lunch tables were our drums; we played clave with
the spoons. Percussionist Manny Oquendo, student at PS 52 in the
1940s
Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Story, a work-in-progress projected
to be released in the fall of 2005, will be an hour long documentary
produced by City Lore, Inc. and directed by Henry Chalfant.
The film presents a panoramic view of the music that blossomed in
the latin community of the South Bronx from the late 1940s when
mambo burst onto the New York cultural scene through the birth of
hip hop in the 1970s. The film chronicles two generations who grew
up literally on the same streets, and both used rhythm as their
forms of rebellion - for the older generation it was the pulsating
rhythms of Cuba; for their children it was the rhythms of rap. The
film, designed for public television and possibly theatrical
release, aims to bring attention to the Bronx neighborhoods and
communities who, with few resources, transformed the world's pop
culture.
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