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Playing and singing with Legacy Women at the 2022 Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Members of Legacy women singing and playing drums at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Playing and singing with Legacy Women at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Indira Cordova playing and singing with Legacy Women at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Members of Legacy Women singing and playing drums at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Dancing among the festival audience while Legacy Women performs at the 2022 Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Rasin Okan performs Afro-Haitian music at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Rasin Okan performs Afro-Haitian music at the 2022 Afribembe Festival.

Rasin Okan performs Afro-Haitian music at the 2022 Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Sidiki Conde, founder and director of the Tokounou Dance Company, performing at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Sidiki Conde, founder and director of the Tokounou Dance Company.

Djembe drummer from Sidiki Conde and Tokounou Dance Company perfoming at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Djembe drummer from Sidiki Conde and Tokounou Dance Company interactcts with the audience at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Drummer from Sidiki Conde and Tokounou Dance Company perfoming at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Expressive drummer from Sidiki Conde and Tokounou Dance Company perfoming at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Sidiki Conde playing a wood block instrument at the 2022 Afribembe Festival.

Djembe drummer from Sidiki Conde and Tokounou Dance Company perfoming at the annual Afribembe Festival.

Expressive djembe drummer from Sidiki Conde and Tokounou Dance Company at the 2022 Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Djembe drummer from Sidiki Conde and Tokounou Dance Company perfoming at the annual Afribembe Festival in Harlem, New York.

Hand carved Christian statue of virgin and child.

Hand carved Christian statue of virgin and child.

Members of Capoeira Senzala play the Afro-Brazilian tradition of Maculelê, which falls under the practice of capoeira. These capoeiristas are performing their play fight with sticks which also help keep the rhythm with the drums.

Samba is another art form within the range of Afro-Brazilian folkloric traditions. Samba rhythms, dance and songs vary throughout different regions of Brazil, as well as the diaspora.

Chadwick Antonio Rawlings of Capoeira Senzala performs the dance of Maculelê at the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series in July 2018, bringing this afro-Brazilian tradition to Central NJ.

Raíces Caribeñas, the predecessor to the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble, performing giving an educational concert as part of the 2nd Reformed Church of New Brunswick’s Lunchtime Recital Series. Dean Warren Schomburg played both flute and percussion…