Archives: Artists

Corocoran Holt, a son of Washington, DC, began playing djembe and other West African percussions at the age of four as a member of Wo’se Dance Company under the tutelage […]

Tom Beckham was born in Maryland and he graduated from Boston’s Berklee College of Music in 1990 where he studied with Gary Burton, Ed Saindon, Hal Crook, and others. Beckham […]

The Lowdown Brass Band (LDB). This band breaks the barrier be- tween audience and performer with their live show and has performed at some of the premier venues and festivals […]

Vatan, or “homeland” in Persian, is a group of Middle Eastern- American musicians who blend the line between Persian folk music and country, funk and rock from U.S. mainstream music. […]

Amir Alan Vahab is honored as a peacemaker and virtuoso and one of New York’s most celebrated and distinguished composer/vocalists of Sufi and folk music. He sings in various languages […]

Sahar Muradi is a New York-based writer, performer, and educator. She is co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature and co-founder of the Afghan […]

Sareh Imani was born in Shiraz, Iran and is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York. She currently studies fine arts in the graduate program at Parsons […]

Nancy Mercado is a poet, writer, educator, and activist. She is the author of It Concerns the Madness (2000) and editor of the children’s anthology if the world were mine […]

Jesus “Papoleto” Meléndez was raised in East Harlem, poet and is one of the founding poets of the Nuyorican poetry movement. His short-lined, quick-turning poems engage city life through a […]

Modesto “Flako” Jimenez is a Dominican-born actor, writer and arts educator raised in Brooklyn. He co-founded Real People Theater, a company best known for reworking classic plays by combining some […]