Weekends in Bloom, a special series of spring programming at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG), will begin Saturday, April 27.
Visitors can celebrate cherry blossom season and all the beautiful spring blooms at the garden with live performances, morning activities for kids and families and tours, according to a news release.
Kicking off the festivities this weekend will be traditional Japanese taiko drumming from Taiko Masala Thunder Drumming and Japanese dance performances from Sachiyo Ito & Company and the Japanese Folk Dance Institute of New York.
There will be performances by the New York Arabic Orchestra Trio; Batalá New York, an all-female, all-Black percussion group; Haitian and Shona music from Tiga Jean-Baptiste and TCHAKA, JC Malliard, a songwriter and Caribbean guitar player, and from many more music ensembles over the coming weeks.
The full schedule of activities and performances can be found here.
