Afro-Brazilian Percussion Workshops with Bloco Gavião
The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music is pleased to offer Spring 2022 dates for our community samba group - Bloco Gavião -
South Africa-based scholar / artist Cara Stacey holds a Masters in Musicology (Edinburgh), and a MMus in Performance from SOAS (London). As a Commonwealth Scholar, she completed her PhD through the University of Cape Town and SOAS (London). Her doctoral research investigated practice and innovation in the music of the makhweyane musical bow in the Kingdom of eSwatini (formerly Swaziland). Cara is currently an ACLS African Humanities Programme postdoctoral fellow.
The Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective looks forward to resuming in Fall 2020.
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The Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective is an exciting new student led project at the University of Illinois establishing a music and dance ensemble dedicated to high-quality authentic and innovative Flamenco performance and education.