History
Braata has been celebrating and showcasing Caribbean folk culture since its formation in July 2009 through presentations to the Caribbean community and the general public. The company has performed to great reviews at venues including the Jamaican Consulate in New York, City Hall in Manhattan, Bronx Borough Hall, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture among many areas across the New York Tri-state area. In early 2012 the group took it cultural message up north to Canada in its first out of country assignment. The group just returned from a well received performance, their first in Connecticut. The group utilizes fuses music, movement and drama with an emphasis on a cultural context. Included among its repertoire is a wide range of folk forms such as Mento, Kumina, Dinki-Mini, Revival, Mento, Ring Games and Nine Night.
Specialties
The Braata Folk Singers are proud ambassadors of and the foremost authority on Jamaican and Caribbean folk music performance in the United States. Braata has constantly wowed audiences on some of the most prestigious stages both locally and internationally and has reaped awards of excellence from the world's most astute connoisseurs of choral music. The group has established itself among Jamaicans and others in the wider Caribbean Diaspora for its unique and dynamic presentation of the region's folk music, combining inspired choral arrangements with drama, intricate choreography, design elements and eye catching costume using traditional folk forms from the Caribbean region. The result is a theatrical presentation best described as