Providence Public Library

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150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903 United States Get Directions
Phone (401) 455-8000
Website https://www.provlib.org/

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  • A man in a green beanie sits looking over his left shoulder. He holds in his right hand a string instrument and a staff in his left hand. A metal drum hangs from a strap around his torso.

    Future Folklore with Karim Nagi

    Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

    "A physical manifestation of beauty & joy" - Chicago Tribune KARIM NAGI creates a future folklore. He weaves Arab tradition with a borderless exploration. His traditional Arabic music and dance emanate brightly, reworking into an original expression of diaspora folklore. A multi-instrumentalist, recording artist of 18 albums, movement artist and TEDx speaker, NAGI's performances are dynamic and […]

  • A Black musician wearing a white robe and white hat with a black band playing the ballaphone outdoors near a body of water

    BALA-BILA

    Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

    BALA-BILA brings together two African master musicians–Balla Kouyaté on balafon, calabash, bass guitar and voice, and Matchume Zango on timbila, mbira, percussion and voice–through a live concert framed as an intercultural musical conversation between the two artists. Kouyaté, from the West African country of Mali, and Zango, from the East African country of Mozambique, are leading exponents of […]

  • A female musician with long brown hair sits looking over her right shoulder with a bass guitar neck upright in front of her. To her left stands a tall, young male musician with short dark brown hair, beard and mustache. He is holding a dark brown violin in his left hand with light brown shapes on it that make it look like a face.

    Jake Blount + Mali Obomsawin

    Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, United States

    Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin are award-winning musicians who have joined forces on their Smithsonian Folkways release, symbiont (2024). Blount (pronounced “blunt”) is a renowned interpreter of Black folk music who is recognized for his skill as a string band musician and for his unprecedented Afrofuturist work in sound archives and song collections. In his hands, the banjo, […]