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SUMMARY:A  Matter of Black Lives 
LOCATION:African American Research Library and Cultural Center\nAfrican Am
 erican Research Library and Cultural Center
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DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the tradition of African-American Fiddl
 ers.\nhttps://broward.libnet.info/event/10177146
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="text-align: center\;">A MATTER OF B
 LACK LIVES!</p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;">Both entertaining and edu
 cational\, the multimedia performance celebrates Black string playing from
  a historical perspective through narration\, imagery\, music and dance. I
 t takes the audience from the West African origins through modern day Hip 
 Hop.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;The performers and the audience are as diverse as the mu
 sic including performers of all ages\, ethnicities and socio economic back
 grounds.</p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;">featuring and curated by</p>
 \n<p style="text-align: center\;">NICOLE YARLING!&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><img src=
 "https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/broward/AARLCC/nicole.j
 pg" width="973" height="973" alt="" style="display: block\; margin-left: a
 uto\; margin-right: auto\;" /></p>\n<p><br />Born in Brooklyn\, New York\,
  Nicole Yarling has called South Florida home for over forty years. She ha
 s just completed a 20-year stint as faculty at Florida Memorial University
 . She is is currently a full-time lecturer at the Frost School of Music. T
 he violinist\, vocalist\, composer\, mentor\, and curator has received num
 erous awards because of her talent\, passion\, and dedication to young peo
 ple. The Jazz Journalists of America acknowledged her efforts when she rec
 eived the Jazz Hero Award for 2015. In 2016\, Ms. Yarling was inducted int
 o the South Florida Jazz Hall of Fame. In 2020 she was bestowed the honor 
 as one of the top African American Educators in South Florida. In 2023 she
  received the Broward County Innovation Grant to produce A Matter of Black
  Lives: Celebrating African American Fiddlers. In addition\, Nicole and fe
 llow colleague jazz pianist Martin Bejerano received the Frost Provost Res
 earch award for The Purple Project - Reimagining the Music of Prince.<br /
 >With her creativity\, performance\, teaching and encouragement she aids i
 n establishing strong artistic community ties. As a mentor\, she establish
 ed a concert series fourteen years ago called Jazz Encounters\, at radio s
 tation WDNA in Miami. She has participator as both adjudicator and perform
 er for the prestigious Young Arts organization based in Miami for the past
  eleven years. In Ft. Lauderdale\, Nicole serves as Educational director a
 nd host of a monthly fifteen-year-old jazz jam for young musicians\, First
  Friday Jam\, sponsored by the Gold Coast Jazz Society. For the past five 
 years Ms. Yarling has served as curator of the Student stage for the South
  Beach Jazz Festival.</p>\nhttps://broward.libnet.info/event/10177146
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