Description
Thursday, June 19 • 11 AM-3 PM Celebration • 2 PM Performance • Brower Park, Brooklyn
Free
All are invited to this free community celebration of Juneteenth organized by Friends of Brower Park. BKCM joins several community partners and neighbors for a joyful afternoon of events and activations in the park from 11 am-3 pm, and BKCM Jazz Leadership Fellow Alexandria DeWalt‘s quartet will give a special performance at 2 pm.
Schedule
- 11 AM – Brooklyn United Drumline
- 11:30 AM – Medgar Evers College Preparatory School Choir
- 12 PM – Tammy Hall Story Time
- 1 PM – Brooklyn Ballet: Ballet to the Streets
- 2 PM – BKCM Presents the Alexandria DeWalt Quartet
Activations: BrooklynChildren’s Museum Color Lab and Jaella Young’s outdoor printmaking, art-making mosaic, Street Lab’s build and design, and much more!
About Alexandria DeWalt
Alexandria DeWalt is a vocalist, flutist, composer, and educator, and a 2025-26 BKCM Jazz Leadership Fellow. Born and raised in Houston, TX she carries the traditions and values of storytelling, which her grandmother instilled in her. Her voice simultaneously acknowledges her southern roots and navigates the past as she pushes musical boundaries.
She received her bachelor’s degree in Studio Music and Jazz from University of Miami, Frost School of Music in 2021 where she studied with vocalist and composer, Dr. Kate Reid. Upon completion, she continued on to receive a master’s degree in Global Jazz at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in 2022, under the tutelage of pianist and composer, Danilo Perez.
DeWalt has performed with Solange Knowles, Al Jarreau, Jason Moran, Shelly Berg, and Kirk Whalum. She has appeared at the Essence Festival, Panama Jazz Festival, and Newport Jazz Festival to name a few. DeWalt is currently an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music in the Ensemble and Voice Departments and a teaching artist with Carnegie Hall’s Future Music Project.
