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This drum and dance ensemble specializes in Bomba, Puerto Rico's oldest art form dating back to its colonial history. Bomba's musicality and aesthetics are a combination of African, Indigenous, and Eu... 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
Euston James - Trinidadian limbo and calypso
Euston James, a native of Trinidad, has lived in Brooklyn since 1972. In the U.S. he has participated in West Indian carnival traditions as a dancer of calypso and limbo and as a fire-eater. His speci... more
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 FOLK ARTS: WHAT WE DO See a merengue típico dance at a Dominican party in Bushwick; the elaborate costumes on Eastern Parkway at the annual West Indies Labor Day Celebration; moko jumbies danc... 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
The following is a list of useful websites: Here are some helpful links to folk arts research, grants, publications, organizations and information about specific artists and art forms. Americ... more
Artists from BAC’s Folk Arts program perform songs, stories, and dances, and discuss the history and traditions of their native countries and cultures.
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
You Dance, We Pay! Organize your own traditional dance workshop through Folk Feet Dance Workshops. Use BAC's Folk Feet Dance Workshops to book your own class or workshop series with Brooklyn’s ... more
Folk Feet Workshops at Spoke the Hub
This fall, Folk Feet Dance Workshops collaborates with Brooklyn’s Spoke the Hub Dancing (STH) (www.spokethehub.org) to launch their new World Dance Program, to be held at STH’s beautifully renovated s... more
Folk Feet Workshops: Arab Social Dance
Sunday, July 13th, 2-6pm Bay Ridge Arab American Bazaar, at Shore Road Park, (79th and Shore Road, Bay Ridge Brooklyn) click for map Sunday, July 20th , 2-6pm Arab American Heritage Park Festi... more
Frisner Augustin and La Troupe Makandal
For over 20 years, La Troupe Makandal and its Artistic Director, Master Drummer, and National Heritage Award winner, Frisner Augustin, have thrilled audiences with the exciting traditional dances, mus... 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
Sherley St. Fort - Haitian dance
Health Insurance for Artists Part II: Fractured Atlas
Fractured Atlas offers access to quality health care plans that meet a variety of budgets and circumstances to the arts community of New York State, and provides a foundation of support through advoca... more
Health Insurance: What Artists Need to Know
In this seminar, industry professionals will discuss the importance of health insurance for artists and freelancers and the various options available for finding affordable health care in New York Cit... 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
FOLK FEET ON FIFTH Celebrating Neighborhood Dance Traditions of Sunset Park and Bay Ridge Hoofin’ it in the Hood: Traditional dancing, discussion, and dishes with neighborhood dance masters incl... more
How to Apply for a Regrant: Seminar for Individual Artists and Orgs. - September 12th
Wednesday, September 12th, 11am - 12:30pm Brooklyn Arts Council 55 Washington Street, Suite 218 (Alternate entrance at 111 Front St.) Note: This seminar will be followed by a UAI Grant Seminar f... more
How to apply for NYFA Artists Fellowships
Learn how to apply for awards of $7000 for unrestricted use, which are made to individual originating artists living and working in New York State. The 2008-2009 cycle includes the following catego... more
Information Session for BAC Artists
Learn how artists can develop workshops for youth in conjunction with the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) at Grand Army Plaza. Opportunities will be presented for Brooklyn Arts Council registered artist... more
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
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