Kadencia, which performs Saturday at the Library of Virginia from noon to 4 p.m., plays bomba and Mayagüez-style plena music to promote and preserve Afro-Puerto Rican music. Kadencia is an 11-member band led by father-and-son duo Maurice Sanabria-Ortiz, third from right, and Maurice “Tito” Sanabria, fourth from right.
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Virginia Folklife event presents Afro-Puerto Rican band Kadencia
Kadencia, a play on the word “cadence” in Spanish, is an 11-member band led by father-son duo Maurice Sanabria-Ortiz and Maurice “Tito” Sanabria, 43.