Archives: Artists

The Marching Cobras is open to the community under Cobra Performing Arts, Inc. They unite teens from all over the tri-state with the goal of gang prevention. The program has […]

Zlatne Uste (“Golden Lips”), is an internationally known group of American musicians playing brass music of the Balkans. Their repertoire includes folk melodies and modern compositions in both Slavic and […]

The Royal Bengal Tea House is a group of writers, musicians and activists based out of Brooklyn, NY led by singer/songwriter Ifti Chowdhury. Even though most of the members are […]

The Feringhees are a Bangladeshi-American band based in New York City. Founded in 2012 from interactions on the City College campus, they played as a cover band. Since their inception, […]

Kalie Kamara, aka King Kalie, hails from a finah (poets and oral historians of Mandeng society) family. Inspired by his ancestry, he studied music from a young age, and channeled […]

Abdolaye Diabate (singer/ guitarist/drummer) hails from one of the most distinguished Jali families from Mali. In the 1970s he performed with the Tentemba Jazz Band and the Koule Star Band […]

Kewulay Kamara, poet-storyteller, multimedia artist and lecturer hails from Sierra Leone and has been the subject of articles in The New York Times and has appeared on A&E Television, PBS, […]

Ibrahima Kolipe Camara is a Master Drummer from Guinea, West Africa. At an early age Kolipe traveled throughout the regions of Guinea learning the different types of musical instruments, rhythms […]

Before salsa music, as marketed by Fania Records, came to dominate the Latin music scene, there was a short-lived fad that spread through East Harlem and the Bronx called Latin […]