Nelson Baez is an Afro-Puerto Rican bomba and plena folk artist and master percussionist based in Central New Jersey. For the last 15 years, he’s spent much of his time playing with his group Cimarrones and teaching this bomba to youth through school programs. In this episode, Nelson discusses the significance that bomba had on his life and why it’s so important to continue passing it down to youth
The producer of this episode, Madeline Lora, is an arts administrator serving the Folklife Center of Northern NJ and the Middlesex Arts Institute. She’s a first generation Dominican-American from Paterson, NJ, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Politlcal Science from William Paterson University.
Our interviewee, Nelson Baez, is the director of bomba and plena group Cimarrones, is an Afro-Puerto Rican folk artist and master percussionist based in Central New Jersey.
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