FolkCOLOMBIA Escuela de Danza y Musica Announce New Program Series!
FolkCOLOMBIA Escuela de Danza y Musica and Queens Community House are excited to announce a virtual Colombian music and dance program series for students throughout the Queens community. We are thrilled to continue our educational mission to share knowledge and grow awareness in expressive Colombian and Latin cultures. An affiliate of the Center for Traditional…
Stonehill Jewish Song Archive
Drawn from the Ben Stonehill Archive, this website, in its initial release, contains over sixty songs drawn from the Ben Stonehill Archive. The Stonehill Archive totals over one thousand songs, and over time we will be working to put all of them up on this site. In 1948, Ben Stonehill, a lover of Yiddish, was aware…
New CTMD COVID-19 Relief Fund!
Folk and traditional artists are among the most vulnerable members of the creative community, often coming from new immigrant and underserved communities. Many of these revered musicians and craftspeople have structural impediments including the digital divide and language barriers to access federal relief funds or private sources of funding. In March the COVID-19 Relief Fund…
BEYLE 100 and Survivor Songs: The Amazing Stonehill Recordings
In the first week of August, CTMD joined Yiddish New York, the Museum of Jewish Heritage and many others to put together two online programs, BEYLE 100 and Survivor Songs: The Amazing Stonehill Recordings in celebration of the Yiddish folksong tradition. BEYLE 100 was a special online concert celebrating the 100th birthday of Yiddish songwriter,…
Folk Arts COVID-19 Relief Fund
The Folk Artists Relief Fund is designed to offer rapid short-term payments to individuals and small groups of folk and traditional artists who have lost income as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Information on COVID-19 for Artists
Stay up to date with information, resources, and links during the COVID-19 pandemic for artists. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dcla/resources/coronavirus-dcla.page We hope everyone is taking the necessary precautions, staying safe and healthy!
COVID-19: Important Messages from the Mayor and City Hall
Dear Partners: See below the latest COVID19 updates from the Mayor. Please also take a few minutes to share the resources below and reach out with any questions or concerns. Share Important Messages from the Mayor and City Hall Watch: Message from the Mayor. Watch the mayor talk about how we keep supplies going to…
Global Voices: Sri Lanka is Back!
We are proud to announce Global Voices: Sri Lanka will be offered at the New School again this Spring!
Dance In The Round with Parijat Desai
We closed 2019 collaborating with South-Asian Artist Parijat Desai. In November and December we held two “Dance In The Round” workshops in NYC. This program is based on circle dances from Gujarat, India, called Garba and Raas. Our aim is to make these wonderful traditions more widely available, and more importantly to harness the power…
CTMD Celebrates 51st Anniversary with Heritage Sunday: Made in NYC
For this 51st celebration of CTMD, we called upon some of its newest artists to join us in celebrating at Lincoln Center, Hearst Plaza. July 28th, was an afternoon of eclectic, energetic music reflecting the diversity of New York City’s neighborhoods. Among the guests were Sri Lankan dance ensemble, The Sri Lankan Dance Academy of…
Co-Founder Martin Koenig Releases Sound Portraits from Bulgaria: A Journey to a Vanished World!
New Book and CD Release by Co-Founder Martin Koenig!
CTMD Welcomes Newest Member Andrew Colwell!
Learn about our newest staff member Andrew Colwell!
Learn about traditions of Mongolian Throat Singing!
Read “The Return of the Far-Off Past: Voicing Authenticity in Late Socialist Mongolia” written by our newest staff member Andrew Colwell.
CTMD Co-Founder Ethel Raim Named 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellow
CTMD is proud to announce that its Co-Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus Ethel Raim has been awarded the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award that recognizes artistic excellence and continuing contributions to our nation’s traditional arts heritage! Ethel has been one of the leading pioneers in researching and presenting immigrant…
YIVO Partners with CTMD on Ruth Rubin Online Exhibition
CTMD is proud to be a sponsor of YIVO’s new online-exhibition, highlighting the field recordings of over 1,500 Yiddish songs made by renowned vocalist and scholar, Ruth Rubin. Performed by some of the most extraordinary traditional singers of the 20th century, including Rubin herself. The 78rpm acetate discs, reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes recorded by Rubin…
Visit to the Sri Lankan Art & Cultural Museum NY
As part of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s ongoing partnership with the New School Eugene Lang College’s Civic Liberal Arts initiative, Global Voices is a recurring course offering, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Spring semester 2018’s course focused on community-based culture work and the vital music and dance traditions practiced in NYC’s…
