Join us as we prepare to represent Puerto Rico at Navy Pier’s annual International Carnival. This year we enlisted the help of Noel Rosado (Viento de Agua, La Máquina Insular, Roberto Roena y su Apollo Sound) to take our plena to the next level. Joining Rosado we have Los Pleneros de Don Segundo “agrandado” with a heavy horn section. We will have food while supplies last, BYOB policy y mucha plena!

Erik Noel Rosado, musician, percussionist and singer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1966 and grew up in Puerto Rico, between Carolina and Villas Palmeras. He is a student of masters of Caribbean percussion and Puerto Rican culture. Among them, Angel Cachete Maldonado, Luis Daniel Cepeda, Giovanny Hidalgo, Modesto Cepeda, Antony Carrillo and Tito Matos among other greats. He has collaborated as a percussionist, chorus and singer in orchestras and groups in the genres of salsa, merengue, rumba, bomba, plena and more. Groups such as, Los Hermanos Cepeda, Areyto, Conjunto Tipikón, Pleneros del Truco, Truco y Zaperoko, Los Majaderos de Cachete, Yubá Iré, Roberto Roena, José Alberto “El Canario,” and Tito Nieves. Since Tito Matos’ return to Puerto Rico, for over 20 years he has formed part of Viento de Agua.