JUNE 7-9TH, 2024
The International Music Festival is a three-day celebration of the music and culture of the diverse ethnic communities of New York City. The festival, which takes place entirely at the Jalopy Theatre features workshops as well as performances. In previous years the festival has presented performers from immigrant musical communities of New York sharing traditions as diverse as son Jarocho of Veracruz, the Duxianqin of southern China, Cumbia of Colombia, choral music of the Balkans and Caucasus mountains, klezmer of Belarus, flamenco of Granada, Arabic maqams, Serbian ballads of love and loss, and Indian classical raga.
FRIDAY JUNE 7th
Theatre Stage:
8pm: Brooklyn Maqam presents Mehrnam Rastegari - Traditional Persian band plays folk and traditional music of Iran
9pm: Shiva Lakhan - Versatile and World Reowned West Indian Classical and Chutney Singer from Trinidad
10pm: Wazumbians - Afrofusion music group from Ghana whose sounds re-echoes the famous Ghanaian group Osibisa
Tavern Stage:
9pm: The Jackson Lynch Band
SATURDAY JUNE 8th
Open Streets Stage:
3pm: Oran Etkin: Timbalooloo - instruments from around the world come to life and talk through their music so that kids conceive of music as the magical act of making your instrument talk! Timbalooloo strives to empower a generation of children to express themselves through music as fluently as they speak their mother tongue, and to see the beauty and creativity in other cultures.
4pm: Miriam Elhajli y La Nueva Canción - your local neighborhood band of South American bandits, here to rock your world with our deep love of cumbia, joropo, vallenato, bullerengue and salsa!
5pm: Tambor y Caña - Afro-Venezuelan Drums & Dance
6pm: CTMD presents Jalikunda - an ensemble of Gambian griots, musicians, and dancers dedicated to preserving and presenting West African oral history, instrumental music, and dance
Theatre Stage:
7:00pm: The Jalopy Chorus - Jalopy’s Resident Vocal Ensemble, performing world vocal harmonies
7:30pm: Baklava Express - NYC Based, Middle Eastern fusion band
8:30pm: CTMD presents the New York Tibetan Ensemble - Based in Queens, the New York Tibetan Ensemble strives to preserve and present traditional music and dance forms from across Tibet.
9:30pm: Saha Gnawa - Contemporary Moroccan Gnawa band led by Ma'alem Hassan Ben Jaafer
Tavern Stage:
10pm: La Banda Chuska - merges the sounds of vintage Peruvian cumbia and psychedelic chicha with 1960s Latin American and Middle Eastern surf rock
SUNDAY JUNE 9th
3:30pm: BIMF presents Bulgarian Singing Workshop with Carol Freeman
This program is made possible through the Folk and Traditional Arts Community Projects program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, and brought to you in part by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Department of Transportation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and Von Trapp Brewery.
