The Queens United International Party [QUIP] is an annual, day-long celebration
of the cultures and music of the New York City borough of Queens.

As one of the nation's most diverse places (with over 120 countries represented
and 135 official languages spoken) Queens is “the world’s borough”.

Nowhere is this more evident than in its music, art and culture.

Established in 2017 at Sunnyside Gardens Park (Sunnyside, Queens) by a coalition of neighborhood residents,
QUIP has grown each year to feature more incredible music from around the world and around the corner.

Outdoor performance at the Unisphere, apart of the Queens Rising Festival.

An Evening of Asian Percussion at 89 North, 89 North Ocean Avenue, Patchogue on March 30 at 7:00 pm.

Featured artists are April Centrone (middle Eastern hoop drum, Roshni Samlal (Indian Tabla), Fumi Tanakadate (Japanese Taiko Drum) and Gamelan Yowana Sari (Indonesian Gamelan ensemble). There is a ten-dollar suggested donation for the performance.

This performance is in association with the art exhibition Asia America at MoCA L.I. from March 12 – April 24, 2022.
Asia contains well over half the global population and its eleven times zone stretch halfway around. The continent has nurtured a vast array of cultures from the Pacific Ocean to shores of the Mediterranean. The exhibition Asia America samples the variety of works created by artists of Asian heritage living in the US.

As vast and varied as is the art born of the Asian continent, so too is its' music. An Evening of Asian Percussion presents a cross section of the Asian musical tradition through the lens of its most primal form. The rhythms of percussion are universal and experienced by all through ears and skin since our time in the womb. All humanity is linked through the pulses and rhythms of percussion.
Common Ground in collaboration with Patchogue Arts Council will present percussion from across the expanse of Asia: the Near Eastern hoop drum, Central and South Asian tabla, and from Japan the taiko drum will be presented individually and in communion along with the gamelan of Indonesia.

Common Ground is an ongoing project of artist and curator John Cino which explores the common sounds, spaces and experiences of our shared habitation of our planet.

This event is made possible with generous funding received from the Restart NY Regrant program, made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Huntington Arts Council.

Queens College (CUNY)-based gamelan group Gamelan Yowana Sari led by director Frederick Trumpy, will present a program on Balinese music featuring a diverse array of Balinese repertoire joined by traditional Balinese dancers. This premiere gamelan group in Queens is an ensemble dedicated to the music, culture and presentation of this art form. 

This pre-recorded program will feature works by I DewaKetut Alit, Evan Zipoyn, Steve Reich and traditional Balinese dance forms, and will include an introduction by Fred Trumpy, accompanied by a live music demonstration from the Church in the Gardens.  

CLICK HERE to access the Zoom link for the concert