Center for Traditional Music and Dance

Check out the NY Times today featuring Guinean dancer (and NEA National Heritage Fellow) Sidiki Conde, a truly inspiring artist featured in CTMD's Beat of the Boroughs: NYC Online video series!

Join our very own Pete Rushefsky this Saturday at 10 AM for a special spotlight workshop on how to arrange klezmer melodies for tsimbl, the traditional hammered dulcimer of klezmer!

To all our individual artists or cultural worker in need of relief, please apply! The application will close on Friday, March 5th at 9:00 p.m. Please contact CTMD staff if you are in need of assistance with the application process. Link is below to apply: https://www.culturalsolidarityfund.org/get-a-grant/

Join us TOMORROW at 7PM as Socalled, the mad wizard of progressive Yiddish music, goes back to his roots on his ground-breaking program, "Socalled Sings Yiddish with Strings", featuring the Warhol Dervish Ensemble. Your $10 ticket helps to support the arts and grants you unlimited on-demand viewing for 72 hours beginning Friday, Feb 26 at 7PM EST. Purchase a ticket here: https://bit.ly/WMISocalledinConcert

Socalled, the mad wizard of progressive Yiddish music, goes back to his roots on his ground-breaking program, "Socalled Sings Yiddish with Strings", featuring the Warhol Dervish Ensemble. Your $10 ticket helps to support the arts and grants you unlimited on-demand viewing for 72 hours beginning Friday, Feb 26 at 7PM EST. Purchase a ticket here: https://bit.ly/WMISocalledinConcert

Ever thought about becoming a teaching artist? Your local arts council can help support your path! Join Staten Island Arts for a Teaching Artist Tuesdays conversation with Master Teachers Stefan Barone and our very own Dara Navinna as they discuss How to Be a Teaching Artist. This FREE event will take place via Zoom TODAY 2/23 from 7-9pm. RSVP at https://statenislandarts.org/#event|how-to-be-a-teaching-artist|9391

!!! BIG NEWS !!! OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT !!! CTMD is excited to be a partner with the Klezmer Institute's Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project which is now live! Unlike other Yiddish expressive culture projects we've encountered before, this project puts the primary sources directly into the hands of anyone who is interested and then brings the community together to process and explore the materials. The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (KMDMP) is a...n international digital humanities project to make materials collected by Zinovy Kiselgof during the An-ski Expeditions and the Makonovetsky Wedding Manuscriptlong-preserved in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraineavailable for researchers, instrumentalists, and singers around the world to engage with first hand. The project seeks to use modern digital humanities tools to transcribe and translate the music and notes contained in approximately 850 high-resolution scans from hand-written notebooks (hefts) and catalogue into digital formats for further study and performance. "Some thirty years ago I had the luck to peruse these unique data in the Vernadsky library and today I see them here in amazement and awe. They reflect the real musical life of the remote past. In fact, that is the sensational treasure I would say, the revival of the Atlantis of the mostly Byelorussian Jewry, recorded by so modest and yet so great Zusman Kiselgof, blessed memory. This project of yours is bringing back to life the wealth of that oral tradition, which was tragically forgotten and now, as if by a miracle, brought back to us, lucky descendants of that beautiful and priceless musical world." - Izaly Zemtsovsky, ethnomusicologist Visit klezmerinstitute.org/kmdmp for all the details and to download the pdfs! *****Subscribe to the KMDMP email list and join our discussion group on facebook to be a part of the conversation!!***** https://www.facebook.com/groups/kmdmp/ #kiselgofmakonovetsky #kmdmp #klezmermusic #digitalhumanities #ashkenazicexpressiveculture See more

Congratulations to our friends at Israel's Jewish Music Research Center for this important release of 100 year old Sephardic Jewish recordings from the EMI archive...

Exciting news from Pachamama Peruvian Arts, which provides traditional Peruvian music/dance classes to youth age 7-17...

Free program about how artists are using instagram during the pandemic....

Join us today via ZOOM at 5PM for a live Bomba concert for #BeatoftheBoroughsNYC by Julia Gutierrez and friends! RSVP below and get the link to join us in just a few hours.

Research fellowships available from the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa..

Join us this Wednesday at 5PM for Beat of the Boroughs NYC Online: Julia Gutiérrez- Rivera and Friends. Together they will present "A Taste of NuyoRican Bomba: From Traditional, to Spiritual to Resistance Music." a mixture of traditional songs/repertoire as well as original songs, offering background on the practice. An evening of percussion, singing, and dancing you don’t want to miss! Share the event with a friend and we’ll see you at 5PM on Wednesday!

CTMD is excited to share with you the pilot for our new online video series Beat of the Boroughs NYC: Online, which will provide a firsthand look at the lives and arts of over 50 of New York City leading masters of immigrant performing arts traditions during these challenging times. The pilot features Queens-based Colombian artists Johanna Castaneda and Ronald Polo of the ensemble Grupo Rebolu and their amazingly talented kids Isabella, Melody and Ronny. We hope you enjoy the program! Stay tuned - beginning Monday, November 16 we will be releasing videos at 5PM every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For more information about the series go to https://ctmd.org//sustain/beat-of-the-boroughs-nyc-online/

Join us today for our new video program Beat of the Boroughs NYC: Online series pilot Beat of the Boroughs NYC: Grupo Rebolu Family Jam, right here on our Facebook Page at 5PM! Music truly is the heart of this family!

Missing the live performances and artists we all adore and enjoy? In just one week, we are proud to announce the premiere of Beat of the Boroughs NYC: Online, celebrating the artistry of fifty of New York City’s leading immigrant performers and diverse cultural traditions from around the world found right here in NYC. Join us here on our Facebook page every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5 PM for a showcase of music, dance and fun!