{"id":303833,"date":"2026-07-23T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:00:11","slug":"free-brooklyn-event-turns-a-walk-home-into-a-live-jazz-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303833\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Brooklyn Event Turns A Walk Home Into A Live Jazz Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening performance features Brooklyn-based Rasin Okan, whose music grows from Haiti&#8217;s mizik rasin movement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"27228064-1784817759\" data-image=\"27228064-1784817759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/55336345376_5a2e8528d6_c.jpg\" data- \/> <\/p>\n<p>V\u00e9ron\u00ebque Ignace, who has performed with the group since 2017, said Rasin Okan traces its history to the late 1990s in Brooklyn while drawing directly from Haitian ceremonial traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many mizik rasin groups, Rasin Okan performs in the &#8220;rasin s\u00e8ch,&#8221; or &#8220;dry roots,&#8221; style, relying primarily on hand drums and voices instead of electric instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn&#8217;s Haitian community has shaped the borough for generations, Ignace said, and performances like Midsummer Nights offer a chance to celebrate that legacy in public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The music that we&#8217;re sharing, because it&#8217;s so tethered to tradition and it is inherently connected to dance and rhythm, that in itself is the connective tissue,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening performance features Brooklyn-based Rasin Okan, whose music grows from Haiti&#8217;s mizik rasin movement. V\u00e9ron\u00ebque Ignace, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-303833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}