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Upcoming Lehman Center for the Performing Arts concert
Willie Colon will perform at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, December
14. Photo courtesy of Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
Lehman Center for the Performing
Arts and Goya Foods will present
the return to ‘La Casa De La Salsa’
the Legendary Son of the Bronx, Willie
Colón and his Orchestra for a special
concert full of Christmas songs to
celebrate El Espiritu de La Navidad on
Saturday, December 14, at 8 p.m.
Willie will perform his best holiday
songs like ‘Aires de Navidad,’ ‘La
Murga de Panama,’ ‘Esta Navidad,’
and’“Cantemos, as well as his classics
like “Gitana”, ‘Idilio,’ ‘El Gran Varon,’
and ‘Juanito Alimaña.’
With over 50 years of experience,
renowned singer, trombonist, composer,
producer, actor, director, and
internationally respected community
leader, Colón has recorded 40 albums
and sold more than 30 million records
worldwide, including fi fteen gold
and fi ve platinum records and eleven
GRAMMY nominations.
Lehman Center for the Performing
Arts is on the campus of Lehman College/
CUNY at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard
West.
Tickets for Willie Colón & Orchestra
on Saturday, December 14, at 8 p.m.
are VIP*$100, $65, $60, $55, $45, and
can be purchased by calling the Lehman
Center box offi ce at (718) 960-8833
(Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., and beginning at 4 p.m. on the
day of the concert), or through online
access at www.LehmanCenter.org.
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*VIP Reception: The Havana Café,
Goya Foods and Lehman Center special
VIP pre-concert wine and hors d’oeuvres
reception will start at 6:30 p.m.
VIP tickets include the reception
and the best seats in the house. Sponsored
by Havana Café Restaurant and
Goya Foods. Low-cost on-site parking
available for $5.
Colón has been a civil rights, community,
political and health activist
as well as Chair of the Association of
Hispanic Arts, a member of the Latino
Commission on AIDS, and a member
of several boards of directors, including
the United Nations Immigrant
Foundation. In 1991 he was awarded
Yale University’s CHUBB Fellowship,
a political recognition he shares with
such luminaries as John F. Kennedy,
Moshe Dyane and Ronald Reagan. In
1995 Colón became the fi rst minority
to serve on the ASCAP National Board
of Trustees and is now a member of
the ASCAP Foundation. In 1997 he became
a spokesperson for CARE, visiting
sites in Bolivia. His involvement in
the campaign to end U.S. military occupation
and practice bombing at the
Puerto Rican island of Vieques earned
him the EPA’s Environmental Quality
Award. A visiting professor and lecturer
at many prestigious colleges and
universities, Colón has honorary doctorates
from both Trinity and Lehman
Colleges.
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