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Registration Open for the 2021-22 Season
Now accepting aspiring young vocalists and instrumentalists beginners to advanced
ages 6 and older!

We are happy to offer scholarships as funding becomes available. Children who live in public housing and who receive free and reduced lunch are eligible for tuition scholarships and a discounted registration fees. Scholarship availability is dependent on grants and contributions. Children who are served by our partner organizations/schools are eligible for a tuition discount. Partners will inform their members.

BUMP Village Day
Cultural and Heritage Knowledge for Resilience and Excellence
Build community and leadership through exposure to the people, history, and cultural practices connected to African diasporan music. Exercise your creativity through free-form youth-led music and arts ensembles and socials are guided by talented, trained enrichment artists!

Applied Instrumental
& Vocal Music Lessons
Musical Proficiency through Eldering

Build musical skill with weekly private /small group lessons on an instrument and/or voice. Lessons are available on traditional African and African diasporic instruments as well as traditional Western symphonic orchestral instruments. BUMP provides instruments free of charge for registered youth as needed and available.

International Travel
Cultural and Heritage Knowledge from Experience
Prepare to travel with us! We will organize local and domestic field trips, and international travel to the African continent to experience, landmarks, influential people, African diasporic cultural origins, and heritage knowledge first hand!

Our Performance Ensembles
Cultural and Heritage Knowledge through Communalism

Rehearse and perform in our community youth instrumental ensembles and/or in our community youth choirs that features the musical repertoire from various African-diasporic artists, genres, and cultural practices.

Ananse Apprentices

For beginning singers and instrumentalists ages 6-8.

Ubuntu Ambassadors

For beginning singers and instrumentalists ages 9-18

Fahari Leaders

For intermediate and advanced singers and instrumentalists ages 12-18. Fahari leaders are referred by members from the community and are groomed and supported to function as youth leaders in our programs.

ABOUT OUR PARTNER - DR. BASS STRING INSTRUMENTS

BUMP is proud to partner with Dr. Bass String Instruments, owned and operated by Damon Walker, a luthier who builds and repairs string instruments. Dr. Bass is supporting BUMP Village and Ensembles in many ways. He is repairing and
maintaining musical instruments donated to Ubuntoots - A Drive to Collect Donated Musical Instruments. Program families will be able to rent their instruments and have them maintained by Dr. Bass as well! Read on to learn more about this accomplished musician and craftsman. And join us in thanking Dr. Bass for his generous support.

Damon is a contrabass instructor, performing musician, and viol luthier specializing in sound and feel shaping. He is well-known among his luthiery peers for pioneering innovative repair approaches. Among his clients, Damon is famous for his thorough and professional house-call services.

BUMP: The Triangle is supported by the Triangle Community Foundation, the Durham Arts Council's Annual Arts Fund, and the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources