April Centrone is a multi-instrumentalist, teacher and music therapist based in the Jersey Shore. She is the business owner of the emerging music and arts center, Fourth Wave in Asbury Park and co-founder of the New York Arabic Orchestra (2007), non-profit organization specializing in the performance and education of Arabic music. She has performed in venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, NYC Opera House, Marciac Jazz Festival (France), Beirut Jazz Festival, Festival Du Monde Arabe in Montreal, World Music Festival of New Zealand, Taipei Chinese Orchestra Silk Road Festival in Taiwan, Festival Músicas do Mundo in Portugal and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors in New York City.
As a drummer and percussionist, she has toured throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East with rock bands such as Secret Chiefs 3, and with icons of the Middle East such as Ziad Rahbani and Marcel Khalife. As a teacher, she taught world music to inner-city youth throughout NYC with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Connect, and lectured at universities around the world. As a music therapist, she worked with Palestinian and Syrian refugee youth during her stay in Lebanon (2013-2016), Rohingya refugee youth (2018), and female teens at safe-houses throughout Malaysia (2018). Her debut album ‘New Moon’ (2018), a story about love, war and the sea, is available on Spotify.
Fourth Wave is a women-owned music and multi-purpose rental space, occupying a 6,000 square-feet loft in the historic industrial sector of Asbury Park, NJ. Four large rooms plus 2,000 square feet of open space will be available for hourly rental with monthly options, with the potential for 24/7 usage and equipment storage facilities. Music, dance and theatre, poetry and open-mics, children’s events, dance events, arts and crafts, paint gatherings, pop-ups, classes and more are welcome at Fourth Wave!
Fourth Wave is named after the current wave of feminism, a wave which addresses free expression, inclusiveness and diversity. Their mission is to provide a space where people of all genders, races, ages and religions are feeling safe and inspired to express themselves creatively.
Get on out to the Fourth Wave Launch 3.0 part at Langosta Lounge in Asbury 7/19/19 at 9:00 PM with Mamadrama, Daughter Vision, Jason B. Schmidt, Astral Dame, and April's project Rang Cherries! Launch 4.0 hits the Danny Clinch Transparent Gallery 8/11/19 with April, Tara Dente, and Cat London!
Enjoy this episode of the mulletcast that features April's jams on multiple traditional Arabic instruments along with special guest Kira Sanchez. For more info visit www.aprildrums.com and www.fourthwaveap.com and follow @aprilcentrone, @fourthwaverehearsal & @kira_sanz
