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 -
The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music celebrates I Ketut Gede Asnawa & family with a video premiere of new Balinese music and dance on Saturday, May 1, 2021. Ensembles featured in this program include the University of Illinois Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, Chicago Balinese Gamelan, Gamelan Genta Kasturi (Kansas City, MO) and Gamelan Tunas Mekar / Pak Yeh Trio (Denver, CO). The premiere will be available on the center’s YouTube page at 1pm, May 1.
Here is a link to the video: https://youtu.be/qZEYXiJn-rg
The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music has launched a new YouTube channel!
Our first four educational videos on the channel are from the Introducing Instruments series, featuring Global Arts performers demonstrating instruments used in the music they present. This set of videos premiered in the 12th Annual Urbana-Champaign Folk and Roots Festival on October 24, 2020.
Our friends at Krannert Center are presenting dance performance work by CONTRA-TIEMPO from February 8, 2021 - February 28, 2021.
Greetings from The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music!
As we continue to navigate the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, we celebrate Spring 2021 as a time of renewal and replenished energy.