Music around the Mediterranean

Let's meet for a Greek Dance Lesson followed by a concert, at Central Park's SummerStage!

Our meeting time will be at 2:00 pm in time for the dance lesson. After that ends (just before 3 pm) we'll gather in the concert area together.

The Schedule for the Festival is as follows:
1:30- 2:10 Gnawa Devotional Music Workshop
2:15- 2:55 Greek Islands Dance Workshop with Dimetri Tashie (WE WILL MEET IN TIME FOR THIS EVENT)
2:00-3:00 Procession with Dimonis d'Albopas
3:00-6:45 Concert featuring Dimonis d'Albopas, Orchestra of Tangier, Christos Titapanidis (Pontic Lyra), Amalia Papastefanou (Singer, Island Music) and Hassan Hakmoun

For more info: www.newyorkworldfestival.org or www.summerstage.org

This spectacular event will showcase the rich traditions of Morocco, Greece and Spain with an extraordinary line-up of artists: Hassan Hakmoun, the premier exponent of Moroccan Gnawa music in America performing ecstatic music and dance from Gnawa trance ceremonies; Orchestra of Tangier, a leading Moroccan ensemble specializing in Andalusian music; legendary Greek island singer Amalia Papastefanou with master clarinetist Lefteris Bournias; Pontic lyra player Christos Tiktapanidis; and the masked Dimonis d'Albopas from the Balearic Islands of Spain, who will open the show with a festive and colorful parade of masked "demons," drummers and bagpipers.

Directions to Central Park SummerStage Rumsey Playfield:
Enter the park at 69th St & 5th Ave
Subway: East Side 6 train to 68th or 77th Sts; West Side 1, 2, 3, 9, B or C trains to 72nd St
Bus: East Side M-A, M-2, M-3, M-4 to 72nd St/5th Ave; West Side M-7, M-10, M-11 to 72nd St/CPW; Crosstown M-66, M-72 to CPW or 5th Ave

This event is presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, World Music Institute and Central Park SummerStage.