Camels Rule the Streets of NYC for 3 Kings Day 🐪🐪🐪
Music (& camels) from the Three Kings Day Parade and Celebration in El Barrio, East Harlem, NYC ¡Feliz Día de Los Reyes Magos! ¡Happy Three Kings Day! (Parade: January 5; actual day: January 6)
January 6 means only one thing for me - Día de Los Reyes / Three Kings Day. For nearly five decades, this annual celebration of Puerto Rican pride and cultural resilience in New York is a mobile party of music, dancing, and the special guests the beloved camels!
In this post, here are some musical highlights from the parade from East 106th Street, up Third Avenue, across East 116 Street, and down Park Avenue, to the celebration concert at El Museo del Barrio with Los Pleneros de la 21.
¡Feliz Día de Los Reyes!
¡Happy Three Kings Day!
Marching band from James Weldon Johnson1School, East Harlem
Garifuna Indigenous cultural group
And featuring - ¡THE CAMELS!
Los Pleneros de la 21, at Museo del Barrio after the parade, singing an aguinaldo (Puerto Rican holiday song of national pride)
Los Pleneros de la 21 doing their thing - ¡plena! (the coastal Afro-Boricua “singing newspaper” tradition)
You know him as the lyricist for the National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
Oh this looks like so much fun! Thanks Angel. The videos make me feel like I was there and those camels... I wouldn't cross 'em! 😆 What a joy, thanks so much.
Love PR 🥰‼️thank you for taking us with you!!