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New York Restoration Project and Midori & Friends host a day of music and movement in the Target East Harlem Community Garden. Exciting activities include jazz lessons and a how-to workshop creating kid friendly instruments made out of recycled materials.  Enjoy a live jazz performance by members of the Landmark Coalition and dance the evening away with BombaYo who will be teaching the  Bomba, a style of music from Puerto Rico with African roots, followed by a performance by New York City’s own YERBABUENA who will share the magic of Boricua Roots Music.

Target East Harlem Community Garden
415 – 417 East 117th Street

WHEN: Saturday, June 6, 2009 from 3 PM to 7 PM

SCHEDULE: 3:00 – 4:00 PM            Groove Clinic: 20 minute rotating stations

                                                            Station 1: Percussions

Kids will create instruments out of recycled materials

                                                            Station 2: Meet an Instrument

Midori & Friends music students introduce youth to the instruments in a jazz combo and explore their unique sounds

                                                            Station 3: Rhyme with Reason

                                                                        Interactive poetry workshop with Toni Blackman

5:00 – 6:00 PM            Groove Session: Students come together and jam followed by a performance by the jazz ensemble of the Landmark Coalition

5:00 – 6:00 PM            Dance Workshop with BombaYO Afro-Puerto Rican Youth Project

6:00 – 7:00 PM            Performance by YERBABUENA Boricau Roots Music

A musical movement in which Boricua musicians have combined and recombined elements of traditional and/or folkloric music as contemporary musical expressions

HOW MUCH:   This green gala is FREE however RSVP is required for activities between 3PM and 5PM

                        No RSVP is required for Bomba workshop

Please call (212) 304 – 0929 to reserve your space