Preserve
Safeguarding traditional knowledge, practices, rhythms, dances, stories, and cultural expressions.
Dominican Folk & Traditional Arts
Keeping Our
Keeping Our
Traditions Alive.
Our mission is the preservation, dissemination, and promotion of Dominican folkloric traditions, creating opportunities for Dominican folklorists and traditional artists of Dominican descent to practice, present, teach, and promote their art.
Our Mission
We work to ensure that Dominican folk and traditional arts remain living traditions—shared across generations and sustained by the artists and communities who carry them forward.
Present
Creating stages and opportunities for Dominican folklorists and traditional artists to share their work.
Teach
Transmitting traditions through schools, workshops, residencies, performances, and community education.
Connect
Bringing artists, communities, and generations together through Dominican culture.
Explore Our Culture
Dominican Folk Arts
Discover the rhythms, dances, instruments, celebrations, and living traditions that carry Dominican cultural memory from one generation to the next.
Music & Rhythm
Explore Palos, Sarandunga, Congos, Merengue, and other musical traditions rooted in Dominican life.
Explore the rhythmsDance
Discover traditional movement, social dances, regional expressions, and the stories carried through dance.
Explore the dancesInstruments
Meet the tambora, güira, palos, congos, and other instruments that shape Dominican traditional sound.
Explore the instrumentsTraditions & Celebrations
Experience processions, festivities, sacred traditions, community celebrations, and other living cultural practices.
Explore the traditions
The People Who Carry the Tradition
Artists Keep
Artists Keep
Culture Alive.
C4AMD creates opportunities for Dominican folklorists, musicians, dancers, tradition bearers, educators, and cultural practitioners to present their work, share their knowledge, and connect with new generations.
Meet Our Artists
Artist Opportunities
Dominican Folk & Cultural Programs
for Our Communities.
Through music, dance, education, performances, workshops, and community celebrations, C4AMD creates opportunities to experience, practice, and sustain Dominican folk and traditional arts.
Folk Dance & Traditional Music
Participatory experiences in Dominican folk dance, percussion, traditional music, rhythms, and cultural expressions.
Explore the TraditionsCommunity Workshops
Hands-on workshops in percussion, dance, music, and Dominican cultural traditions for youth, families, adults, and community groups.
Discover Our WorkshopsSchool Cultural Programs
Artist-led residencies, workshops, performances, and educational experiences that bring Dominican culture into schools and universities.
Explore School ProgramsLive Cultural Performances
Live traditional music, dance, and cultural presentations for festivals, public spaces, schools, institutions, and community events.
Experience Live CultureFolk Music & Wellness
Community experiences that bring traditional music, cultural participation, wellness resources, and neighborhood connection together.
Culture & WellnessCultural Festivals & Celebrations
Signature cultural gatherings including Aires de Navidad, the Folk Music & Wellness Fair Series, and other celebrations of Dominican heritage.
Discover Our Events