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Born in Lebanon, Fakhoury studied classical guitar at the Conservatoire of Lebanon. He later picked up electric guitar, inspired by Omar Khoshid, famous for integrating electric guitar into the stand... more
CASYM Steel Pan Orchestra performs the rhythms and sounds of the steel drum that are an integral part of the rich cultural heritage of the Caribbean Islands of Trinidad and Tobago. CASYM has performed... more
CIRCLE ‘ROUND BROOKLYN 2 is sponsered by Commerce Bank and is supported by major grants from Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Emma A. Sheafer Charitable Trust. BAC Folk Arts is made possible, in part, wit... more
Sunday, October 8, 2006 Tobacco Warehouse, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park, in DUMBO 2:00-5:00 pm Circle dance is the oldest dance form dating back thousands of yea... more
Cliff Matias - Native American dance
Cliff Matias is the founder and director of Redhawk Native American Arts Council, a Brooklyn-based organization established in 1995 that promotes and presents Native American arts and culture. Each J... more
Friday, March 28 Tarboosh Cafe 9:00pm-Midnight
Although the administrators of brooklynartscouncil.org will attempt to ensure that event descriptions and dates below are valid, Brooklyn Arts Council will not be held responsible for the content of a... more
BOOK YOUR SPACE FOR WALKING TOURS OF THE BOROUGH'S ARAB NEIGHBORHOODS. The Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival drew many of its talented musicians and its inspiration from two thriving Arab neighbor... more
Culture and Dances of Scandinavia
Folk Feet on Fifth community partner, The Norwegian Folkdance Society, presents Culture and Dances of Scandinavia. Saturday, February 21 10 am - Noon FREE Sporting Club Gjoa 850-62nd St, ... more
DanceAfrica 2010: African Rhythms/American Echoes
Presented by Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Click here for more info WHEN: Friday, May 28, 7:30pm; Saturday, May 29, 2pm & 7:30pm; Sunday, May 30 & Mon... more
Dena El Saffar, of Iraqi and American heritage, was exposed to Arabic music in the suburbs of Chicago, where she grew up attending Iraqi gatherings with her family. She began learning the violin at th... more
From Athens, Greece, Mikelis is both an ‘ud and piano performer. He holds a B.M from Berklee College of Music in jazz studies (2003), a Masters in Jazz Performance from the William Paterson Universit... more
Diverse Traditions: Arab Folk Music in Regional Expression
Saturday, March 29 Alwan for the Arts 9:00 -11:00pm
FOLK FEET FIGHT FOR DUMBO Last year BAC's Folk Feet dancers knocked out audiences at DUMBO FIGHT NIGHT, the DUMBO Improvement District's first annual fundraiser. Team "Folk Feet" has been invited bac... more
Eddie Soubhi Ibn Farjallah Kochakhi was born and raised in Brooklyn, in a Syrian Catholic family on Atlantic Avenue. His sister brought him his first dumbek from Aleppo when he was ten. He came to be... more
El Mostafa comes from the Atlantic port city of El Jadida, Morocco. He bought his first instrument, a Moroccan wooden flute called gasbah, as a boy. He was drawn to its sad, yet sweet sound quality, a... more
Friday, March 7 Brooklyn's Maqam: Reinventing Arab Music in the Borough BAM Cafe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Featuring Fahim Dandan, the renowned popular singer whose presence at Brooklyn Ara... more
Emancipation Day Celebration at Weeksville Heritage Center
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Brooklyn-based Palestinian vocalist Fahim Dandan grew up with exposure to the folk music traditions of Haifa and nearby villages. Dandan’s mother was respected for her musical ability and noted for h... more
BAC is proud to help nurture Brooklyn’s traditional artists and preserve our borough’s diverse heritage though our Folk Arts programs. See a merengue típico dance at a Dominican party in Bushwick; ... more
Artists from BAC’s Folk Arts in Education Program perform songs, stories and dances and discuss their traditions and cultural history.
The terms “folk” and “traditional” describe the artists and art forms that our programming supports. Few of the traditional artists we work with have ever received formal training; most learn by obser... more
Here are some helpful links to folk arts research, grants, publications, organizations and information about specific artists and art forms. American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress ... more
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress City Lore in Manhattan New York Folklore Society Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Texas Folklife ... more
Folk Feet is made possible, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and The New York Community Trust.
Folk Feet Dance Workshops focus on teaching the movement repertoire of specific traditions. Each workshop also provides an overview of the dance’s cultural setting, such as the costume, music and craf... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: American Square Dance
Join dancers Don and Dot Coy at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Boulevard FREE Ages 10 t... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Egyptian Folkdance
Join dancer Yasser Darwish at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Boulevard FREE Ages 10 thr... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Greek Dance
Join dancer Chrisafo Madimenos at this Folk Feet Dance Workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge 7223 Ridge Boulevard FREE Ages 10... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Haitian Folkloric Dance
Haitian Folkloric Dance Classes Sundays, May/June 12 noon - 1:30 pm Join dancer Nadia Dieudonné for classes on the dance of Haiti. Experience the vibrant rhythms and dance of Haiti! Live drummi... more
