Celebrating Immigrant Culture
Sunday, October 17th, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Music
on the Avenue C Plaza will present a free concert featuring the 5PM Porch Concert Multigenerational
Playing for the Light Big Band and the Brooklyn Nomads.
The Multigenerational Playing for the Light Big Band is "a performance ensemble that combines the talents of neighborhood teens
and a group of diverse professional musicians across several genres to
perform original music that combines poetry, song and improvisation."
The Brooklyn Nomads is "a collective
of musicians from different cultural and stylistic backgrounds. We are
from Lebanon, Germany, Sudan, Turkey, Iran, the US, Albania, and others.
With roots in Middle Eastern and Arabic music traditions, our music
includes global styles like Flamenco, Jazz, Balkan, Bluegrass, North
& East African, European Classical and more."
The concert is presented in collaboration with Arts & Democracy.
Location
Avenue C Plaza
556 McDonald Avenue (map)
at the intersection of Avenue C
Kensington, Brooklyn
Twitter: #AveCPlaza
Facebook: https://facebook.com/avecplaza