With the author Joe Flood. The one thing people continue to remember about the Bronx is its devastation through the fires in the 1970s and 1980s . The area was documented on celluloid— the opening shot of Paul Newman’s movie, Fort Apache, the Bronx, was shot right outside the Bronx Music Heritage Center’s door. In […]
We invite you to our gorgeous mosaic to join in with Antoinette Montague as we cele- brate Black History Month. and the pride of a people whose boots on the ground move- ment helped make America beautiful.. From Africa, to slavery, historic Civil Rights March songs from Mahalia Jackson, to Curtis Mayfield...may we the "people […]
Recently there was an exhibit at the New York Public Library called, 100 Years of Flamenco. It included beautiful photos of the greatest dancers that have graced New York’s stages and were the toasts of the dance world. However, one significant point that it left out was the grassroots perspective on the art of flamenco. […]
Pre-concert discussion about women in jazz featuring Paula Hampton, Bertha Hope, Cobi Narita, Maxine Roach & Carol Sudhalter
The Afri-Garifuna Ensemble featuring Lucy Blanco plus screening of Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital, post-concert dance party with DJ Pwhyte.
Kool Jai Infiniti, Pastoral Garifuna, Maya Forbes, Tae Edwards, and Gabriel Sarmiento. The event will take place at BMHC Lab and Louis Niné Boulevard
BMHC honors Hip Hip pioneer DJ Kool Herc. The events is followed by a Jamaican Jam by the legendary DJ Kool Herc and a concert in his honor featuring BMHC Lab & Louis Niné Boulevard Rebel Diaz, Grandmaster Caz, Bocafloja, Circa ’95, YC the Cynic, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Sadat X. Clive Campbell emigrated to […]
Afro-Brazilian drum group Batala NYC, screening of the documentary film Sweet Dreams and Q&A with director Rob Fruchtman, dance & shekere lesson by members of the Legacy Circle Women Drummers, screening of film clip from Oya: Something Happened on the Way to West Africa with Bronx filmmaker Seyi Adebanjo. Screening of the film, Sweet Dreams, […]