Film Screening: WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT @ Jackman Hall Theatre, AGO, Toronto, ON - Sat Jun 4th!

Adding sabor to this year's programming Mathew Ramirez Warren’s documentary "We Like it Like That" traces the origins of Boogaloo to New York City’s Spanish Harlem in the 60s. Featuring cameo appearances by renowned musicians such as Pete Rodriguez and Joe Bataan, this doc will not only will fill the gaps in your Tropical music history lesson, it will also make you want to run to a club and dance until the sun comes up!

We Like It Like That

The film looks at the rhythmic music that rose from the streets of Spanish Harlem and the Bronx in the ‘60s and merged funk, jazz, R&B and Afro-Cuban sounds.

The long missing link between Big Band Cuban rhythms from the 40’s and 50’s and the creation and explosion of Salsa in the 70’s in New York City and the world, Boogaloo is a type of tropical music that was created in the Bronx in the 60’s by the Caribbean diaspora and some brave musicians with varied backgrounds. Let us introduce you to this contagious music through the film We Like It Like That, followed by some practice on the dance floor of lessons learned.

Borrowing the title of the famous song by Pete Rodriguez, director Mathew Ramirez presents us with the unlikely story of the birth, rise, and apparent death of a rhythm that would go on and define a generation of children from Caribbean immigrants in New York City in a decade when youth was hungry to define and change its place in the world, the sixties.

The story narrated by its protagonists, all of them still living in the city of New York, tells us about the joyful birth of the Boogaloo and what it meant for a generation in the quest of identity. The rise of the rhythm would revolutionize the industry and would create friction between two generations of musicians, the ones who wanted to keep the status quo, and the ones who wanted to have fun. This documentary not only will fill the gaps in your Tropical music history lesson; it will also make you want to run to a club and dance until the sun comes up.

Co-presented by Lula Lounge and Uma Nota Culture

Location:  Jackman Hall Theatre, AGO, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON

Time:  9p

Tickets:  $10 General Admission/$8 students

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