ShowcaseTuning Your Ear: Learning to Listen to Arab Music
03/04/08
6:30PM - 8:00PM
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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
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
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
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
Holy Cross Greek Cultural Festival Greek dances led by Chrisafo Madimenos 9/21/2008 Ridge Boulevard and 85th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
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
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
Folk Feet is made possible, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 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 free workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. 7223 Ridge Boulevard. Ages 10 through adult. Call 718.748.5709 to register. ... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Egyptian Folkdance
Join dancer Yasser Darwish at this free workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. 7223 Ridge Boulevard. Ages 10 through adult. Call 718.748.5709 to register. ... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Greek Dance
Join dancer Chrisafo Madimenos at this free workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. 7223 Ridge Boulevard. Ages 10 through adult. Call 718.748.5709 to register.... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Panamanian Dance
Join dancer Alberto Gonzalez at this free workshop presented by Young Dancers in Repertory, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. Salam Arabic Lutheran Church 345 Ovington Avenue Between 3rd and 4th Aven... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Ukrainian Dance
Join dancer Tamara Chernyakhovska at this free workshop presented by BPL Bay Ridge, a Folk Feet on Fifth partner. 7223 Ridge Boulevard Ages 10 through adult. Call 718.748.5709 to register.... more
Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Ukrainian Folk Vechornytsi
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance, in collaboration with Brooklyn Arts Council, presents Ukrainian Folk Vechornytsi (Ukrainian Village Dance Party). BROOKLYN UKRAINIAN RESTAURANT 1223 Ave... more
BAC Folk Arts' initiative Folk Feet on Fifth, is part of the Folk Feet traditional dance project begun in 2003, to identify, document and present traditional dance in Brooklyn. Folk Feet on Fifth foc... 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
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