Sat Jun 2, 8:00 PM - Sat Jun 2, 11:00 PM
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468, Bronx, NY 10468

Community: Harlem

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts and GOYA FOODS is proud to present the long awaited return of LA SONORA PONCEÑA featuring the piano virtuosity of PAPO LUCCA on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at 8pm.

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts and GOYA FOODS is proud to present the long awaited return of LA SONORA PONCEÑA featuring the piano virtuosity of PAPO LUCCA on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at 8pm. La Sonora Ponceña has been entertaining audiences with their legendary old school salsa for over six decades. Produced by Lehman Center and Leo Tizol.
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is on the campus of Lehman College/CUNY at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468. Tickets for of LA SONORA PONCEÑA on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at 8pm are $100*VIP, $65, $55, and $50 and can be purchased by calling the Lehman Center box office at 718-960-8833 (Monday through Thursday, 10am–5pm, and beginning at 12 noon on the day of the concert), or through online access at www.LehmanCenter.org. *VIP Reception: The HAVANA CAFÉ, Havana Club Rum and Lehman Center special VIP pre-concert wine, beer, Havana Club Rum & hors d’oeuvres reception will start at 6:30pm. VIP tickets include the reception and the best seats in the house. At the reception meet other patrons and the staff of Lehman Center. Sponsored by Havana Café Restaurant and Havana Club Puerto Rican Rum. Lehman Center is accessible by #4 or D train to Bedford Park Blvd. and is off the Saw Mill River Parkway and the Major Deegan Expressway. Low-cost on-site parking available for $5.
LA SONORA PONCEÑA was formed in Puerto Rico in 1954 by Enrique “Quique” Lucca, who named the band after the famous Cuban band Sonora Matancera and his home city of Ponce, thus Sonora Ponceña. Don Quique created a distinct salsa sound using a full percussion section, with only trumpets in his horn section that in turn harmonized with the piano and voices. By 1956 the group included pianist Vicentico Morales, with Quique’s ten-year-old son, Enrique “PAPO” LUCCA Jr., already at the piano writing arrangements. Papo recorded his first piano solo, “Smoke Mambo“, in 1958 at age twelve. By 1960, the band had performed in New York, catching the attention of Fania/Inca Records owner Jerry Masucci. The band’s early recordings featured various popular vocalists of the time, until Humberto “Tito” Gomez joined the band in 1967, and Luis Guillermo “Luigui” Texidor joined the following year. After

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