Make Music Winter Event: Melrose Parranda

Sun Dec 21, 2025
3:00pm to 5:00pm ET
Age: All
Price: Free
Location:
Bronx Music Hall
442 E 162nd St, Bronx, NY, 10451
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The Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) hosts its 11th annual Make Music Winter celebration in the Melrose section of the Bronx with a procession, or parranda—the Puerto Rican tradition of caroling.

Based on the music of plena and other holiday songs from the island, this festive parade is led by members of the Bronx music and cultural community, including Jorge Vázquez, Matthew Gonzalez and Bobby Sanabria. Each stop along the parranda will be a different casita, the little houses that evoke the houses of the countryside in Puerto Rico, ending at the casita renowned for its musical legacy: Rincón Criollo Centro Cultural, aka “La Casita de Chema.”

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