Around the World Music Series

Begun in 2015, the "Around the World" Music Series presents master musicians from diverse cultures i

The "Around the World" Music Series is a new concert series presenting outstanding musicians from diverse cultures in an intimate setting. Concerts are held approximately every other month in the new theater space of the North Water Street Gallery, conveniently located in downtown Kent, Ohio. The series is an initiative of Standing Rock Cultural Arts, and is curated by ethnomusicologist David Bada

09/05/2024

Breaking News!

Gabby and Mango will be opening with some music before the Aire and Sol Concert on Sunday Night, September 8, 7pm!

https://www.facebook.com/events/525658983276749/

08/28/2024

Coming Friday Night in Downtown Kent!

08/15/2024

SRCA is Expanding. Grand Opening this Saturday! You are invited!

Music! Food, Henna, Art!

Downtown Kent Ohio

We're also raising funds for the renovations.

TO DONATE ONLINE:

CLICK THE "DONATE BUTTON" ON THE HOME PAGE OF THE SRCA WEBSITE: https://www.standingrock.net/

OR GOFUNDME: https://gofund.me/5a4d6ef4

TO DONATE BY MAIL: SEND A CHECK PAYABLE TO

SRCA
300 N. Water St., Suite H, Kent, OH 44240

08/09/2024

SRCA EXPANSION AND FUNDRAISER GRAND OPENING UPDATE!

Greetings,

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WHO: Standing Rock Cultural Arts

WHAT: SRCA Expansion Grand Opening and Fundraiser
-Music by Members of Kenge Kenge Orutu System of Kenya
-Flute Music by Dinah Asafo-Adjei of Ghana
-Henna Tattoos offered by Sumina of India
-Raffle Prizes, Food and Drinks

WHERE: 300 N. Water St., Downtown Kent, OH

WHEN: Saturday, August 17, 7-9pm

ADMISSION: $10 Suggested Donation (No one turned away for lack of funds)

CONTACT: 330-673-4970

www.standingrock.net for updates

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ABOUT THE SRCA EXPANSION

Standing Rock Cultural Arts recently received the opportunity to expand our space for arts, educational, and community programming. This option came to us with a 5-year lease for Suite D directly next to our current gallery at 300 N. Water Street.

This new space encompasses 1,600 square feet – almost twice as much as our current space and features original wood floors and 14-foot ceilings! The space also has a functional kitchen, refrigerator, and hot water. The lease includes approval to remodel the space to make it appropriate for the arts.

We intend to use this space to build on our long-nurtured dream of a full-service cultural arts center for the community, bringing cost to fruition the dream of reinvigorating the North Water Street Art District.

Recently we completed some renovations. We’re raising funds to pay for the renovations and be a le to sustain the gallery for years to come.

Refinished the original wood floors (carpeting has already been removed)
Added drywall to create more exhibition space
Painted the entire space
Added track lighting for art exhibits
Remodeled to add a door entrance in the south wall of our existing gallery to join the arts spaces

SO FAR, WE’VE REACHED $3,600 OF OUR $5,000 GOAL!
Thank you to all who Donated to Support Cultural Arts in Downtown Kent!

TO DONATE ONLINE: CLICK THE "DONATE BUTTON" ON THE HOME PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE

‍OR GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/5a4d6ef4

‍TO DONATE BY MAIL: SEND A CHECK PAYABLE TO

SRCA
300 N. Water St., Suite H, Kent, OH 44240

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Donate to Help Enrich Kent's Artistic Landscape, organized by Standing Rock Cultural Arts 08/02/2024

We're getting closer to the Grand Opening of the SRCA Expansion, August 17. We've raised nearly 2/3 of our goal. Thanks to all for supporting community arts in Downtown Kent!

Donate to Help Enrich Kent's Artistic Landscape, organized by Standing Rock Cultural Arts Greetings Friends of the Cultural Arts, Exciting News! … Standing Rock Cultural Arts needs your support for Help Enrich Kent's Artistic Landscape

Uncle Mo and Hal Night Town 02/29/2024

Throw Back Thursday. A performance by Maurice Drake (Uncle Mo) and Hal Walker at Night Town Jazz Club in Cleveland on January 22nd, 2011.

Uncle Mo and Hal Night Town Maurice Drake and Hal Walker perform at Night Town Jazz Club in Cleveland, Ohio on January 22nd, 2011. Special appearance bu Hal's dad, Harold Walker Sr., s...

lori Cahan - Simon Ensemble#10 Yiddish Songs of Yesteryear 07/28/2023

Sad news: Lori Cahan-Simon, a powerful and renowned singer of Yiddish and Hebrew songs, as well as classic rock, funk, and R&B, passed away from pancreatic cancer on July 28, 2023.

lori Cahan - Simon Ensemble#10 Yiddish Songs of Yesteryear Lori Cahan-Simon~vocalsSteve Greenman~violinWalt Mahovlich~accordian

Woman in Window photograph by Elizabeth Lax | Standing Rock Cultural Arts 2022 Annual Auction | Standing Rock Cultural Arts 12/03/2022

Woman in Window photograph by Elizabeth Lax | Standing Rock Cultural Arts 2022 Annual Auction | Standing Rock Cultural Arts When you set a max bid, bids will automatically be placed on your behalf to outbid new bidders up to your max bid amount.

07/04/2022

Ukrainian American kobzar Jurij Fedynskyj has arrived in Northeast Ohio! As a preview of his Wed., July 6, 2022 performance in Kent, Ohio, here he is performing for the congregation at Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church in Akron, Ohio on Sunday, July 3, 2022:
https://www.facebook.com/HolyGhostAkron/videos/1576765839385445

Standing Rock Cultural Arts - YouTube 06/04/2022

Friends: would you please consider clicking "Subscribe" to the Standing Rock Cultural Arts YouTube channel (which only takes a moment)? We are 35 subscribers shy of 100 subscribers, which will allow us to customize our channel's URL. Thanks very much.

Since I made the same post a week ago, only one (1) person took the time to do so, making our progress toward 100 subscribers very slow.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Mungbee

Standing Rock Cultural Arts - YouTube Art videos that support the Standing Rock Cultural Arts Mission: To Build Community Through The Arts and Provide Arts Access For All

03/04/2022

March 4

One Love Halim El-Dabh! Starchild! Hope you're enjoying your Earth Birthday, 4,101 years ago! )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrRvs6CaEc&t=79s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrRvs6CaEc&t=79s

02/15/2022

Attention "Around the World" Music Series listeners: if each of you could take a moment to visit the Standing Rock Cultural Arts YouTube channel and click "Subscribe" (then click the bell icon to the right of the "Subscribe" button, to ensure you receive notifications for all new videos), we'd be very appreciative. This will help us improve our channel, including giving it a custom URL.

Right now our channel has just 51 subscribers, but we need 100 in order to begin making the aforementioned improvements. Thank you in advance for taking the time to click "Subscribe," then click the bell icon (this should only take about 30 seconds).

Here is the link to the SRCA YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Mungbee/featured

02/13/2022
02/11/2022

Virtual concert taking place at 7 p.m. EST on Sat., Feb. 12, 2022:

Traditional Music of Romania featuring Gheorghe Trambitas (Taragot and Voice) 01/16/2022

Updated Gheorghe Trambitas's video with bonus footage of Gheorghe performing as a young man in 1990 with a group of traditional musicians and dancers from Brasov, Romania. https://youtu.be/3YeBquV2NAk

Traditional Music of Romania featuring Gheorghe Trambitas (Taragot and Voice) Standing Rock Cultural Arts'"Around the World" Music SeriespresentsTraditional music of Romania, featuring Gheorghe Trambitas (taragot and voice)January, 202...

Traditional Music of Romania featuring Gheorge Trambitas (Taragot and Voice) 01/08/2022

A link to the world premiere of a concert and talk by Romanian taragot player, Gheorghe Trambitas! Saturday Night at 7pm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MxqNY5jig

Traditional Music of Romania featuring Gheorge Trambitas (Taragot and Voice) Standing Rock Cultural Arts'"Around the World" Music SeriespresentsTraditional music of Romania, featuring Gheorghe Trambitas (taragot and voice)7:00 p.m. ES...

06/17/2021

Standing Rock Cultural Arts and Aaron Fried present

Creative Music Camp at Standing Rock Cultural Arts from July 12 – 16.
300 N. Water St., Suite H, Downtown Kent, Ohio

This is a great opportunity to enhance your playing, be it your interpretive skills or your expansion beyond classical music.

This program is for intermediate and advanced musicians, ages 14-18. No experience with improvisation is necessary. We will delve into styles from around the world, exploring concepts such as rhythmic hocketing, ornamentation, narrative, motivic development, modal harmony, collaboration, and self awareness.

Open to String and Woodwind Players

Fee: $190 for 5 sessions, 10am-1pm.

Instructors:
Aaron Fried, KSU Stark Faculty Cellist
Jahna Stanton, Classical and Pop Violinist

Guest Artists:
Inti Hayma, Violinist, Singer, and EDM artist
Ed Caner, Physicist and Fiddler with Hey Mavis

One of the things I'm most excited about is the culmination of the week, which will be the opportunity to create the soundtrack for a short film.

More information below. Register here

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzKI6JGg6yvi_WS3yD0zh7XpbZF3mY95T2g5x404nmcQioPQ/viewform

There are only 10 spots, so if you're interested, please register ASAP.

Standing Rock Cultural Arts
300 N. Water St., Suite H
Kent, OH 44240
330-673-4970

www.standingrock.net

Standing Rock Cultural Arts is a non profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization. We invite and welcome sponsors to help cover expenses for our art and educational activities. Donations are tax deductible.

Timeline photos 06/06/2021

For those who knew Sage Poet Maj Ragain,(and for those who didn't), here's a poem Maj wrote for the Edwin George Mural that adorns the north wall of Scribbles Coffee Shop in Downtown Kent. We just refurbished the poem and it is now on permanent display next to the mural. )

Photos from The Annual "Who's Your Mama?" Earth Day & Environmental Film Fest Events's post 04/23/2021

Happy Earth Day

Photos from Standing Rock Cultural Arts Events's post 03/06/2021

TONIGHT!

Women's Drum 03/04/2021

Happy 4,100th Birthday Halim El-Dabh!

Women's Drum The Women's West African Drum Group of Kent performing at The Halim El-Dabh Day celebration at The Standing Rock Cultural Art Center, Sunday, March 4, 2018 i...

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Our Story

The "Around the World" Music Series is a new concert series presenting outstanding musicians from diverse cultures in an intimate setting.

Concerts are held approximately every other month in the new theater space of the North Water Street Gallery, conveniently located in downtown Kent, Ohio.

The series is an initiative of Standing Rock Cultural Arts, and is curated by ethnomusicologist David Badagnani.

Standing Rock Cultural Arts page:
https://www.facebook.com/SRCAKent

Standing Rock Cultural Arts official site:
http://www.standingrock.net/

Previous performances in the series:
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● AppalAsia (cross-cultural trio featuring Chinese erhu with lap dulcimer, banjo, and voice)
● Jarrelle Barton and friends (Chinese guzheng)
● Jeremy Bleich and Leland Scott Davis, with special guests (oud and percussion)
● Terry Boyarsky (world music for piano)
● Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble (Yiddish songs)
● Baba David Coleman and friends (African and Afro-Caribbean music)
● Bill Crouse and Ashlyn Crouse (Seneca songs, stories, and dance)
● Billy Crowbeak (Native American flute)
● Druk Fusion Band (Nepali Bhutanese music)
● The Five Islands (classic calypso from Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela)
● Journeywork (Irish trio)
● Baba Jubal (music from Africa and the diaspora)
● Kenge Kenge Orutu System (Luo music from western Kenya)
● Oleg Kruglyakov (Russian balalaika)
● Danny Lahood and friends (Arabic oud)
● Los Tres Sonidos ("trio" music of Latin America)
● Alex Lubet (newly composed music for mountain dulcimer by Chinese, South Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, and American composers)
● Oleh Mahlay (Ukrainian bandura, with documentary film)
● Mariachi Santa Cecilia (Mexican mariachi music)
● Lisa Miralia/Paul Stranahan Duo (improvised music for percussion, electronics, and voice)
● Luca Mundaca and Brian Kozak (Brazilian bossa nova)
● Chan E. Park (Korean pansori)
● Kostas Revelas and George Papazekos (Greek rebetika music)
● Patty C & The Guys (Slovenian and Cleveland-style polka)
● Frank "Little Elk" Running (Lakota songs and stories)
● Persian ensemble, featuring vocalist Momtaz Charepoo
● Samuel Salsbury and Josh Sherman (North Indian sarangi and tabla)
● Shiva Sastry and Suraj Srinivasan (South Indian veena and mridangam)
● Yang Jin and friends (Chinese p**a)

Videos (show all)

Seneca Native American, Bill Crouse, demonstrates Hoop Formations

Address


North Water Street Gallery, 300 N Water St, Suite H
Kent, OH
44240

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