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FLATFOOT FLATBUSH

December 21st, 2024

NYC's First-Ever Flatfooting Festival Comes To Your Door on December 21st! 

FLATFOOT FLATBUSH is Brooklyn's first-ever flatfooting parade, celebrated as part of Make Music New York's Winter Solstice Celebration. 

 

On December 21st, for the eleventh year, the North Flatbush Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) teams up with Make Music New York and Porch Stomp to bring you Flatfoot Flatbush, an exciting year of music and dancing to celebrate community and the winter solstice.

During Flatfoot Flatbush, dancers, fiddlers and pickers parade down the sidewalks of the ever-busy Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope/ Prospect Heights (Dean Street to Sterling Place) playing old-time tunes while flatfooting, a form of percussive dancing from Appalachia. The evening begins with a warm up and quick flatfooting workshop hosted by Megan Downes (City Stompers), which will take place outdoors at 2pm. Immediately following, the flatfooting parade will kick off and traverse Flatbush Avenue stopping along the way at local businesses to bring holiday cheer. The parade will finish at the 6th Avenue Triangle (intersection of Flatbush, 6th, and St Marks Avenues) with participatory group dances lead by the City Stompers and Brooklyn Contra, and a rendition of the mystical Abbots Bromley Horn Dance by Ring o'Bells Morris and Half Moon Sword.  

Starting at 5:30pm, the fun continues at an indoor after-party at Lips@333 (333 Flatbush Avenue) featuring more music and dance, and an open jam lead by the Flatfoot Flatbush Band. The after party doubles as the North Flatbush Avenue BID merchant holiday party, and will bring together businesses in the district to share in holiday cheer.

Guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo players and other stringed instrumentalists are encouraged to join the Flatfoot Flatbush String Band! To join, just email mmnyporchstomp@gmail.com no later than December 18th to obtain music scores and detailed instructions. Dancers and boosters are welcome to simply stroll on up!

Soldier's Joy 

Arkansas Traveler 

Angeline the Baker

Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss 

Cluck O Hen

Sail Away Ladies

Possum on a Rail 

Bonus Tunes: 

Old Joe Clark 

Whiskey Before Breakfast 

Click to learn more about our collaborators!

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