Hamid is a Canadian Rohingya refugee musician. Through World Refugee Day, Crossing Borders Music, and the Field Foundation of Illinois, he's traveling all the way to Chicago for this special performance! FREE and open to the public Bio: https://musicinexile.org/hamid/
For this project, HAMOC brings its traveling exhibition, We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community back to Mandrake Park in the Bronzeville area for a second year in order to continue providing Haitian, Black and Diasporic art, culture, history and music to the residents of the area. To expand the exhibition’s impact and reach within ... Read more
Free music concerts for the whole family. Conciertos gratis para toda la familia. Performers: Friday: A Flor de Piel Radio Free Honduras Ugochi & A.S.E. Saturday: A Flor de Piel David Chiriboga Sunday: A Flor de Piel Zacbe Pichardo Crossing Borders Music
The Crossing Borders Music String Quartet joins Nisa Pov, Resident Artist of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and roneat ak (Cambodian xylophone) performer for an amazing night of new arrangements of Cambodian classics! The performance includes beautiful new arrangements made by Crossing Borders Music violinist Rasa Mahmoudian and overseen by Pov for the Cambodian Day ... Read more
Join Crossing Borders Music for an album release performance with Grammy-nominated sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of Ravi Shankar, performing the music from our world premiere recording which will have just been released on Ropeadope Records. This event is FREE and open to the public.
Crossing Borders Music performs with Nisa Pov, Resident Artist of the National Cambodian Heritage Museum, at the Argyle Night Market! The market lasts from 5pm-9pm, with Cambodian music from 6pm-7pm. Started in 2013, the Argyle Night Market is an annual event that features local food and retail vendors plus live cultural and musical performances on ... Read more
DisFest: Celebrate Disability Pride Month July 22 Crossing Borders Music will give "pop-up" performances between 2:00pm and 4:00pm. Live audiences will hear music from BOYH (Bringer of Your Hair, piano quintet by Rylan Gleave), music previously performed in collaboration with MOMENTA Dance Company. Wheelchair access, ASL, Captioning, Audio Description, Quiet Space, and What To Expect ... Read more
Join the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) and Crossing Borders Music for the third-annual, one-day outdoor exhibition "We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community" at Dawes Park in Evanston! "We Walk: A Celebration of Black Community" is a program created in 2020 by the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) who invited Crossing Borders ... Read more
ACM’s Thirsty Ears Festival is Chicago’s only classical music street festival! Crossing Borders Music will perform Saturday Aug 5, 4:00pm-5:00pm. For two days Wilson street between Hermitage and Ravenswood are closed to feature stellar ensembles and soloists performing music from Beethoven to Shostakovich to Reich and everything in between on the main stage. Thirsty Ears ... Read more
This program features music by Black American composers of yesterday and today, including “Five Folksongs in Counterpoint” by trailblazing, early 20th century Chicagoan Florence Price – plus a reading of new works by four youth composers from Chicago’s West side! The program will also include “Rara” by Jean “Rudy” Perrault, “Forgotten Royalty” by Jessica T ... Read more
