This special holiday concert is FREE to attend! This event is co-sponsored by Bayside Historical Society and Korean Community Services.

G-Hwaja performs creative music through a collaboration of Western and Korean traditional instruments, melding disparate tones and styles. The group seeks to express the emotions of the times in a dramatic way by utilizing the uniquely expressive characteristics of Korean traditional music — particularly its sense of excitement known as Hueng and the bittersweet sense of grief known as Han — to deliver familiar music with new emotional dimensions. G-Hwaja strives to popularize Korean traditional music by delivering a dynamic and vivid image of Korean to the modern world. Since its creation, G-Hwaja had its first performance at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Performers:

• Junghee Oh : Gayageum Byeong-chang, Vocal
• You Shin Kim : Keyboard, Composition
• Grace Leekyung Kang : Haegeum
• Song Eun Shin : 25 Strings Gayageum

The evening's program will include: 

1. SOKS : Sounds of Korean Soul composed by G-Hwaja You Shin Kim
2. Haegeum Solo “Beautiful Memory”
3. Cinema Paradiso OST : Love Thema
4. Old pop Medley ( Let it be...)
5. Korean Folk Song “Song of the Birds”
6. Fly me to the moon
7. LiberTango 
8. Winter Song Medley (Korean Lunar New Year Children's song and more)

Light refreshments will be served.

This event is part of Bayside Historical Society's "Passport Concert Series:  Bringing Cultures from Around the World to the Castle at Bayside." Music is culture expressed through sound. Travel with us to faraway lands to experience the beauty and passion of the music that is our universal language. Keep checking our website for our ongoing concert schedule!

Reserve your tickets below or call 718-352-1548.

Sponsored by Council Member Vickie Paladino. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.