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Presented by BAC Folk Arts, Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable variety of Arab music traditions that flourish throughout the metro area! WHEN: Fri... more
Friday, March 28 Tarboosh Cafe 9:00pm-Midnight
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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
Presented by BAC Folk Arts, Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable variety of Arab music traditions that flourish throughout the metro area! WHEN: Sat... more
Diverse Traditions: Arab Folk Music in Regional Expression
Saturday, March 29 Alwan for the Arts 9:00 -11:00pm
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
Gaida Hinnawi is a vocalist and composer working at the intersection of the New York Arab and improvised music scenes. Her compositions draw on classical Arabic song, Syrian folk traditions, and impro... more
Brooklyn-based Shafik grew up in a musical family in Cairo surrounded by Egyptian popular, folk, and classical music that made his Shobra neighborhood jump. As a young boy, he practiced percussion on... more
George was born in Birzeit, Palestine, and pursued music from a young age. In 1986 he moved to the United States, where he has studied oud with Simon Shaheen and classical singing and voice with Youss... more
Glitch Generation Curated by Michele Jaslow and Spring Hofeldt February 4 - June 25, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 6-8pm Created with flickr slideshow.... more
Half the Sky Festival: Drum it Down
Outstanding women drummers, including Edwina Tyler (African percussion), Women in Steel (steel pan) and The Legacy Circle (women’s African diaspora drumming group) will hold an outdoor drum jam in fro... more
Half the Sky Festival: High Strung Women
High Strung Women May 10, 7:30-9:30pm Jalopy 315 Columbia Street (Red Hook) Tickets: $7 PURCHASE TICKETS BK Art Lovers get in free.... more
Half the Sky Festival: Jazz Women Fusing Forms
Jazz Women Fusing Forms May 18, 9-10:30pm BAMcafé 30 Lafayette Avenue (Fort Greene) Presented by BAC in association with BAMcafé Live. Free! BK Art Lovers get reserved seats.... more
Half the Sky Festival: The Sweetest Song
Yiddish Women's Labor Song from Brooklyn Arts Council on Vimeo.... more
Half the Sky Festival: Yiddish Folk Songs
Bay mayn mames shtibele: The Women’s Art of Yiddish Folksong May 14, 7-9:30pm The Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street (Manhattan) Tickets: $15, $10 for CTMD/CJH members. Purchase tickets... more
Born in Nador, Morroco, to a family that practices music traditions, Hisham began playing percussion at age 13. His first lessons in music came from his cousin and a close friend, both of whom played ... more
The history of Brooklyn jazz is celebrated in this concert featuring a survey of compositions by Brooklyn jazz masters Randy Weston and Freddie Hubbard. Presented by Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortiu... more
Intergenerations: Randy Weston Trio with Special Guest Ayanda Clarke
BAC presents Brooklyn’s legendary jazz pianist Randy Weston with his trio mates Alex Blake (string bass) and Neil Clarke (African percussion), with guest artists T.K. Blue (soprano sax), Billy Harper ... more
Intergenerations: Toshi Reagon and Friends
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Canadian-born Gutwilik’s interest in music began at a young age when his aunt gave him a Perez Prado album and his own transistor radio. School offered him an immersion into the world of traditional J... more
Lebbos comes from Beirut, Lebanon and learned debkah – the celebrated social line dance of the Levant- in the rural areas where it has been danced into the earth for generations. Lebbos’ debkah pract... more
From Casablanca, Morocco, Bohsina bought his first keyboard at age 12, and – as he recounts – it grew with him. Today he is one of NYC vocalists’ most requested and respected keyboardists. By 16, Bo... more
Jazz Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The ceremony features a jam with masters of the first generation of Brooklyn jazz. Presented by Brooklyn Historical Society in conjunction with Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium's 11th Annual Centr... more
Johnny Farraj has studied riq (Egyptian tambourine) and frame drum with Karim Nagi and Fairuz's percussionist Michel Merhej, both featured in Brooklyn Maqam. He also studied oud with Simon Shaheen and... more
