The Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) hosts its 9th consecutive Make Music Winter program in the Melrose section of the Bronx with a music procession, or parranda – the Puerto Rican tradition of caroling.

Based in the music of plena and other holiday songs from the island, this festive parade will be 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.

The parranda will wind its way through Melrose Commons stopping at the various casitas and community gardens in the neighborhood, ending at the casita renowned for its musical legacy: Rincón Criollo Centro Cultural, aka “La Casita de Chema.” 

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