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Los Pleneros de la 21 (LP21), a Spanish Harlem-based ensemble that performs traditional Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance, will give a free concert at 7 p.m. Oct. 16 in Memorial Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The musicians specialize in bomba and plena, traditional Afro-Puerto Rican musical genres that date back to the early 17th and 20th centuries. LP21 often combine bomba and plena with jazz, salsa, rock and rap.

Doors to Memorial will open at 6 p.m. The performance will be free, but attendees must obtain tickets from the Memorial Hall Box Office (919-843-3333) on Cameron Avenue, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and until 7:30 p.m. the night of the concert. Each attendee is limited to four tickets. For groups of 25 or more, call UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at (919) 962-9001.

The Stone Center is hosting LP21 for a two-day residency that will include a free public workshop with the group at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 at the center. To register for the workshop, call the center at (919) 962-9001.

The residency coincides with the Carolina Creative Campus Initiative, a yearlong University-wide project initiated by the Office of the Executive Director for the Arts. The 2009-10 Creative Campus Initiative will explore diasporas and examine ideas on migration, nationality and the politics of home.

For more information, call the Stone Center at (919) 962-9001.

Note: For a photo of LP21, visit http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/campus/2009/lp21.jpg.

Stone Center contact: Olympia Friday, (919) 962-7265, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it