DJ Rekha to bring a different beat to Hoboken Arts & Music Festival

DJ Rekha’s Punjabi sounds layered with hip-hop, dancehall and club rhythms sustained one of Manhattan’s hottest parties for two decades. It was music that took over the body, an experience Cristin Cricco-Powell, Hoboken’s new director of cultural affairs, saw firsthand on those electric nights at Varick Street’s SOB’s. Now, DJ Rekha will headline the Hoboken Spring Arts & Music Festival on May 19, breaking a yearslong string of rock band headliners. “It’s a fantastic feeling to have people of all ages dancing,” Cricco-Powell said of DJ Rekha’s performances. “It feels...