Frisner Augustin, Black Brooklyn Renaissance Drum Call 2010

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Frisner Augustin (Artistic Director/Master Drummer) was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he studied ritual drumming in the temples of Vodou. In 1972 he immigrated to New York, where he established himself as a master drummer in Vodou rituals, as a performer for Haitian community festivals, and as a drum instructor. In 1981 Mr. Augustin took over the direction of the company La Troupe Makandal. His recordings with the Troupe (A Trip to Voodoo,…

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    Frisner Augustin, Black Brooklyn Renaissance Drum Call 2010

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    Frisner Augustin (Artistic Director/Master Drummer) was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he studied ritual drumming in the temples of Vodou. In 1972 he immigrated to New York, where he established himself as a master drummer in Vodou rituals, as a performer for Haitian community festivals, and as a drum instructor. In 1981 Mr. Augustin took over the direction of the company La Troupe Makandal. His recordings with the Troupe (A Trip to Voodoo,…

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    Uriye Kermencikli performing "The Carnation"

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    Artist Spotlight: Uriye Kermencikli The singer featured in the following video, Uriye Kermencikli, is a member of the Crimean Tatar community in Brooklyn. She came to Brooklyn in 2010 and is highly regarded as an expert in the folk song of her people. Here she presents a traditional song called, “The Carnation,” themed on the age-old love-gone-wrong. At the end of the clip, Uriye and Ayla Bakkalli, another member of the community who serves as translator,…

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    Kevin "Shock-a-lock" Porter - locking

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    Kevin "Shock-a-lock" Porter - locking Part of Brooklyn's Traditional Dances in Detail A Brooklyn Arts Council Folk Feet Documentation Project Video: Treva Wurmfeld

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    Caribbean Culture Theatre, E. Wayne McDonald

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    Days of the Dead in Brooklyn Waking the Dead E. Wayne McDonald and members of Caribbean Cultural Theatre, duppy (ghost) stories April 23, 2009 http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1143

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    Montego Joe

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    Roger “Montego Joe” Sanders interviewed as part of BAC's Black Brooklyn Renaissance Drum Call.

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    Black Brooklyn Drum Call

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    Demonstrations, performances and symposium on African beats in the borough featuring expert Brooklyn drummers representing various African diasporic traditions, including José Ortiz (Puerto Rican), Frisner Augustin (Haitian), Baba Mpho (Guyanese Shanto tradition), Tony Reece (Carnival iron section), Junior Wedderburn (Jamaican) and others. Learn about the drum-making art from Montague Pollard.

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    Black Brooklyn Drum Call

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    Demonstrations, performances and symposium on African beats in the borough featuring expert Brooklyn drummers representing various African diasporic traditions, including José Ortiz (Puerto Rican), Frisner Augustin (Haitian), Baba Mpho (Guyanese Shanto tradition), Tony Reece (Carnival iron section), Junior Wedderburn (Jamaican) and others. Learn about the drum-making art from Montague Pollard.

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    Black Brooklyn Drum Call

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    Demonstrations, performances and symposium on African beats in the borough featuring expert Brooklyn drummers representing various African diasporic traditions, including José Ortiz (Puerto Rican), Frisner Augustin (Haitian), Baba Mpho (Guyanese Shanto tradition), Tony Reece (Carnival iron section), Junior Wedderburn (Jamaican) and others. Learn about the drum-making art from Montague Pollard.

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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 dancing on stilts in Ft. Greene Park; a five-story tall giglio tower in Williamsburg to honor St. Paulinus and Our Mother Mt. Carmel. This is your Brooklyn.

Hear the percussive beat of an African djembe drum; a Russian-Jewish immigrant

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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 dancing on stilts in Ft. Greene Park; a five-story tall giglio tower in Williamsburg to honor St. Paulinus and Our Mother Mt. Carmel. This is your Brooklyn.

Hear the percussive beat of an African djembe drum; a Russian-Jewish immigrant hammering copper memory portraits of rabbis from the past; an oud emanating from a Lebanese café in Bay Ridge. This is your borough.

These are the sounds and sights of Brooklyn folk arts: traditions that make the borough one of the most diverse places in the United States.

BAC Folk Arts is proud to help nurture Brooklyn’s traditional artists and preserve our borough’s diverse heritage.

At BAC Folk Arts, we work with Brooklyn-based folk and traditional artists and their communities to preserve and present arts that express the borough’s diverse living heritage. Music, dance, visual and material arts, occupational and religious traditions all find wider audiences through our public presentations, from the annual Folk Feet traditional dance showcase to Circle ‘Round Brooklyn social dance workshops to the Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music Festival.

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