Songs from the East Village: a musical evening with Susan McKeown and students from the East Village Community School

Date: Monday, September 20, 2010
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Tenement Museum (108 Orchard Street, NY)
Ticket: free
Genre: folk

The first ever musical project to tell the stories of New York City’s immigrant children. A public school using compelling ballads and funky beats as a creative way of raising money during the current funding crunch. Students, parents, and staff members part of the arts-based East Village Community School in the heart of New York’s historically global neighborhoods have come together to produce an album uniting Iraqis and Tibetans, immigrants by choice and refugees, and deep historical roots on Songs from the East Village (releases September 20th, 2010).

Head-started by local Irish singer Susan McKeown, Songs from the East Village integrates an extraordinary group of talented artists from the area who are also parents of students at the school, including Puerto Rican Salsa pianist Ray Santiago, bassist and Black rock icon Melvin Gibbs, and actress Sharita Choudhury.