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Clave:
The Orphan Root of American Culture

Jean-Francis Varre
Atrium B, City Mall, 12/15/2020

This professional and community development workshop is designed to  empower musicians of all backgrounds, skill levels, and ages by highlighting a foundational tool that shapes the vast majority of musical genres today: rhythm. We are dedicated to preserving and amplifying the shared cultural history of the African diaspora while fostering its self-determination in the present and future. Through drumming, dance, and communal musical experiences, we aim to share not only the rich traditions of these art forms but also their profound physical, psychological and therapeutic benefits. As research has shown,

“Drumming and other forms of music therapy increase engagement in treatment and can help reduce anxiety, depression, and anger.”
(Journal of Addictions Nursing)

SAHEL:
Black Atlantic flagship music project

Jean-Francis Varre
Kennedy Center,  11/27/2021

Sahel, like the legendary land that is its namesake, is a band that interprets musical genres influenced by  African culture around the world.

Performing Zouk, Reggae, Senegalese Mbalax, Samba, Funana, Salsa and  more; Sahel’s music is blended colors of culture on the canvas of African  rhythms.
Created by its multilingual lead vocalist and band leader, Jean-Francis Varre, Sahel is inspired by tradition and dedicated to the progress of music that moves  the world.

Visit Sahel on Sahel's Official website here.

Relief wall sculpture of Portuguese slave ship at the merchant port of Alfama Lisbon where the first documented African slaves of the Atlantic slave trade were brought.
Relief wall sculpture of Portuguese slave ship at the merchant port of Alfama Lisbon where the first documented African slaves of the Atlantic slave trade were brought.

Black Atlantic is

a futurist

cultural

education and

entertainment organization with  a primary focus on the history and evolution of the African Diaspora. Black  Atlantic is primarily focused on producing cultural media content & products.

3 PILLARS OF BLACK ATLANTIC

Oral Cultures

the other side of the coin

Oral cultures (African, Native  American, Asian/Polynesian), both vocal and instrumental, provide critical  missing links and counter arguments to the dominant written narratives of  human history.

Ubiquity

of african cultures

African based oral traditions were spread  across the colonized world and have evolved to be highly successful at  adapting to the modern age and thriving as arguably the dominant culture  in western entertainment media. As a result, these traditions are among  humanity’s most powerful tools for communication and progressive  change.

History

humanizes

By telling the largely undocumented history of Africa  and its diaspora, relationships within it as well as with the rest of the world,  can be improved by breaking unfounded stereotypes and humanizing all  people affected by its history; in effect the entire world.

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