"Every so often a band crops up in new york tha´s more than just a group with a repertoire, but instead seems intent on using the assets of the city - its confluence of cultures, its wide buffet of performance scenarios - to say something about the durability of a musical lineage, and maybe even expand it. la manga is the latest of these groups. it firts came together last year, when the colombian percussionist daniela serna was visiting new york; at a jam session in prospect park, she met other musicians with these groups. "