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When Gospel Meets Puerto Rican Bomba with Cora Harvey Armstrong and Emanuel Dufrasne González
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Take a journey through the resilient and entangled roots of our ancestors...
Explore the branches that have extended from the African Diaspora and have bonded our cultures, uniting us through music and dance…
The Banyan Tree of the Americas: Music Evolution in the African Diaspora was a series of events hosted by Semilla Cultural in Fredericksburg, VA during the months of August, September and October 2021. These events included panel discussions and performances on music and dance practices that share African roots.
On August 28th, 2021 in the Dorothy Hart Community Center, Cora Harvey Armstrong from Richmond and Emanuel Dufrasne González from Puerto Rico, spoke about gospel and Puerto Rican bomba. They discussed the foundation of these genres and how they have evolved into what we experience today.
Listen to what they had to say...
Song: Palo'e Bandera from Paracumbé's album: Tambó
Video by Felipe Callado Photography.
*Rev. Cora Harvey Armstrong is a native of the Newtown District of King and Queen County, Virginia. Cora is a singer, songwriter and recording artist and has been playing the piano for more than 60 years. She has portrayed gospel great Mahalia Jackson and she and her sisters, Clara Jackson and Rev. Virginia Young, have portrayed themselves at the Swift Creek Mill Theatre, Colonial Heights, in a play written about their lives as they sang with their mother, the late Eva Harvey, entitled “Those Harvey Girls.” Cora and her sister and nieces now sing together as “The Harvey Family” and have been blessed to perform at many folk festivals and shows across the country. She was licensed and ordained by the late Rev. Dr. Leonidas B. Young in 2012 and in 2017 earned a Master of Divinity Degree from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA. Cora is currently a member of the Historic Union Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA under the pastorate of Rev. Donald K. West. In February 2021, Cora was one of five people selected as” RVA Community Makers”. Her portrait, painted by artist Auz Miles, has been displayed in the Virginia Fine Arts Museum in Richmond and now hangs in the Black History Museum in Richmond until auction. To God be the Glory for all that He has done!
*Dr. J. Emanuel Dufrasne González, ethnomusicologist, Ponceño, has a B.A. in Secondary Education with a specialty in Music, 1977 (UPR-RP). M.A. in Music with a specialty in Ethnomusicology (UCLA, 1982). And a Ph. D. in Music with a specialty in Ethnomusicology (UCLA, 1985). In 1979 he founded the Paracumbé ensemble. Since then he has directed this group that performs Puerto Rican music. He is a professor at the Faculty of General Studies of the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras where he has been a professor since 1988. He has publications in magazines, newspapers, anthologies and in online media. In 1994 he published his first book ‘Puerto Rico also has ... tambó!’. In 1987 he released a full-length album with Paracumbé, considered to be the best recording of Plena and Bomba up to that point. During 1995 he recorded his second album with the same title as his book, Tambó. In 2005 he released the third album titled Paracumbé: Tambó Sabroso. Dufrasne, along with his Paracumbé ensemble, has participated in the televised programs and has been featured in several documentary films, as well as participated in multiple concerts, workshops, conferences, radio and televised programs in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Mexico and the United States, as well as Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Jamaica, Grenada, Haiti and the Virgin Islands Since 2001 he has produced the program MVSICA MVNDI for Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico. He writes articles on music for the cyber magazines 80grados and Miradero. The publishing house W.P.P. published his book Solos for Unaccompanied Trombone, Euphonium or Bassoon (2014). In addition, the cybernetic magazine Miradero published the script Tambó. He is currently about to publish another collection of compositions for trombone and percussion.
This project was possible thanks to the support of the Fredericksburg Arts Commission, the Virginia Humanities, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rapp Arts and Culture. We want to express our deepest appreciation to our wonderful partners from the Fredericksburg Area Museum, the University of Mary Washington, Claves Unidos and the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Inc.
To learn more about this project please visit:
#porlacultura #semillacultural #banyantreefxbg #paneldiscussions #performances #AfricanRoots #BombaPuertorriqueña #tapdance #SembrandoSemillas #CosechandoCultura #afroroots #africandiaspora #afroboricua #afrodance #afromusic #fxbgarea #fxbgva #musicanddance
Explore the branches that have extended from the African Diaspora and have bonded our cultures, uniting us through music and dance…
The Banyan Tree of the Americas: Music Evolution in the African Diaspora was a series of events hosted by Semilla Cultural in Fredericksburg, VA during the months of August, September and October 2021. These events included panel discussions and performances on music and dance practices that share African roots.
On August 28th, 2021 in the Dorothy Hart Community Center, Cora Harvey Armstrong from Richmond and Emanuel Dufrasne González from Puerto Rico, spoke about gospel and Puerto Rican bomba. They discussed the foundation of these genres and how they have evolved into what we experience today.
Listen to what they had to say...
Song: Palo'e Bandera from Paracumbé's album: Tambó
Video by Felipe Callado Photography.
*Rev. Cora Harvey Armstrong is a native of the Newtown District of King and Queen County, Virginia. Cora is a singer, songwriter and recording artist and has been playing the piano for more than 60 years. She has portrayed gospel great Mahalia Jackson and she and her sisters, Clara Jackson and Rev. Virginia Young, have portrayed themselves at the Swift Creek Mill Theatre, Colonial Heights, in a play written about their lives as they sang with their mother, the late Eva Harvey, entitled “Those Harvey Girls.” Cora and her sister and nieces now sing together as “The Harvey Family” and have been blessed to perform at many folk festivals and shows across the country. She was licensed and ordained by the late Rev. Dr. Leonidas B. Young in 2012 and in 2017 earned a Master of Divinity Degree from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond, VA. Cora is currently a member of the Historic Union Baptist Church, Philadelphia, PA under the pastorate of Rev. Donald K. West. In February 2021, Cora was one of five people selected as” RVA Community Makers”. Her portrait, painted by artist Auz Miles, has been displayed in the Virginia Fine Arts Museum in Richmond and now hangs in the Black History Museum in Richmond until auction. To God be the Glory for all that He has done!
*Dr. J. Emanuel Dufrasne González, ethnomusicologist, Ponceño, has a B.A. in Secondary Education with a specialty in Music, 1977 (UPR-RP). M.A. in Music with a specialty in Ethnomusicology (UCLA, 1982). And a Ph. D. in Music with a specialty in Ethnomusicology (UCLA, 1985). In 1979 he founded the Paracumbé ensemble. Since then he has directed this group that performs Puerto Rican music. He is a professor at the Faculty of General Studies of the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras where he has been a professor since 1988. He has publications in magazines, newspapers, anthologies and in online media. In 1994 he published his first book ‘Puerto Rico also has ... tambó!’. In 1987 he released a full-length album with Paracumbé, considered to be the best recording of Plena and Bomba up to that point. During 1995 he recorded his second album with the same title as his book, Tambó. In 2005 he released the third album titled Paracumbé: Tambó Sabroso. Dufrasne, along with his Paracumbé ensemble, has participated in the televised programs and has been featured in several documentary films, as well as participated in multiple concerts, workshops, conferences, radio and televised programs in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Mexico and the United States, as well as Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Jamaica, Grenada, Haiti and the Virgin Islands Since 2001 he has produced the program MVSICA MVNDI for Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico. He writes articles on music for the cyber magazines 80grados and Miradero. The publishing house W.P.P. published his book Solos for Unaccompanied Trombone, Euphonium or Bassoon (2014). In addition, the cybernetic magazine Miradero published the script Tambó. He is currently about to publish another collection of compositions for trombone and percussion.
This project was possible thanks to the support of the Fredericksburg Arts Commission, the Virginia Humanities, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rapp Arts and Culture. We want to express our deepest appreciation to our wonderful partners from the Fredericksburg Area Museum, the University of Mary Washington, Claves Unidos and the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Inc.
To learn more about this project please visit:
#porlacultura #semillacultural #banyantreefxbg #paneldiscussions #performances #AfricanRoots #BombaPuertorriqueña #tapdance #SembrandoSemillas #CosechandoCultura #afroroots #africandiaspora #afroboricua #afrodance #afromusic #fxbgarea #fxbgva #musicanddance
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