MUSIC · FOOD · ARTS · CULTURE

The Loisaida Festival

YEARLY ON THE SUNDAY BEFORE MEMORIAL DAY

SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2025

The Annual Loisaida Festival beautifully encapsulates the diverse heritage and vibrant spirit of New York City’s Lower East Side, Loisaida neighborhood.
On Loisaida Avenue, culture isn’t just celebrated—it’s lived. The festival becomes a reunion for neighbors, friends, and families who gather to dance, laugh, and remember what it means to belong. It’s a Puerto Rican celebration that wraps the whole community in music, memory, and that undeniable feeling of home.

Artisans · Makers · Creatives

Food Vendors + Merchants

Local + City-Wide Organizations

Visitors Every Year!

Featured Performers

Sonido Costeño

ANA MACHO

JESSIE MONTGOMERY

ALMA MOYO

JOE BATAAN

On Loisaida Avenue, culture isn’t just celebrated—it’s lived. The festival becomes a reunion for neighbors, friends, and families who gather to dance, laugh, and remember what it means to belong. It’s a Puerto Rican celebration that wraps the whole community in music, memory, and that undeniable feeling of home.

Artisans · Makers · Creatives

Food Vendors + Merchants

Local + City-Wide
Organizations

Visitors Every Year!

Featured Performers

Sonido Costeño

ANA MACHO

JESSIE MONTGOMERY

ALMA MOYO

JOE BATAAN

Opening Community Parade!

11 am – 12 pm

5th-12th Streets on Avenue C – Loisaida Ave.

SIGN UP TO BE A PART OF the Parade!

11:30A

Batalá NY – Batucada

PERFORMANCE IN FRONT OF MAIN STAGE

Main Stage

12th Street – Avenue C

12:00P

Jessie Montgomery

Third Street Music School
Classical

1:00P

 Sonido Costeño

Tribute to A Band Called Loisaida
ALTERNATIVE

2:00P

Ana Macho

URBANO

3:00P

Alma Moyo / Legacy Circle

BOMBA Y PALO

4:00P

Anissa Gathers

Son Cubano

5:00P

Joe Bataan

Latin Soul

MC Giraldo Luis Alvaré

Siempre Pa’lante!

DJ Beyond

Theatre Lab

 in partnership with Grand Street Settlement

La Plaza Cultural – SW 9th Street & Avenue C

12:00P

TBD

1:00

Sugar Hill Salon

Live Performance of Classical Music

1:30P

Dorill Initiative

3:00P

Artisferio Circus

Art & Comedy Performance

4:00P

LOISAIDA.FM: Guada, Aurelio Adasme & LAPERRERA

Live Music Performance

Street Level

Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden

NE 9th Street & Avenue C

TBA

1:00P

Música Típica Puertorriqueña

Performers
1-3 pm – Los Fascinantes
3-5 pm – Yotoco 

traditional Puerto Rican folk music

Community Gardens

Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden

NE 9th Street & Avenue C

12:00P – 5:00P

Pleneros Callejeros

Loisaida Avenue

PRIDA Artisan Block

E 5th StreeT

Open Mic Marathon Nuyorican Poets Cafe

E 8th Street

BOMBAYO

E 8TH STREET

BioBus Mobile Lab Dorill Initiative

E 9th Street

Bouncy Houses

E 11th Street

SINCE 1987

Heart. Community. Cultura.

 

The 37th Annual Loisaida Festival,’ A Cultural Mosaic,’ beautifully encapsulates the diverse heritage and vibrant spirit of New York City’s Lower East Side. 

Viva Loisaida! Awardees

The Loisaida Festival recognizes honorees each year for their community leadership and cultural contributions, celebrating them at an awards ceremony earlier in the week. This year’s 2024 Viva Loisaida! Award recipients are Congressman Dan Goldman; Activist, Author, and former Young Lord Felipe Luciano; Entrepreneur and sister of beloved Nuyorican poet Jesús “Tato” Laviera, Ruth Sánchez; Manny Rodriguez, a long-time youth sports organizer and founder of the Lower East Side’s Félix Millán Little; and Kanielle Hernández, activist, leader and life-long resident of the NYCHA Mariana Bracetti Houses in the Lower East Side. Congratulations to this year’s awardees.

Thank you to our Sponsors!

The Loisaida Festival program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Development Fund, in partnership with the City Council.

Loisaida Center

9th Street & Avenue C
Lower East Side, Manhattan NYC

(646) 726-4715 | INFO@LOISAIDA.ORG