Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS): Midtown Concerts.

In June of 2025, BALAM debuts “Old and New Spain in Music, Song, Dance, and Destreza Fencing”, a thrilling program selected by GEMS for the 27th season of its acclaimed Midtown Concerts series.  BALAM’s new program will be presented in the largest, most diverse series of free chamber music concerts in the nation, comprising weekly performances by over 40 different professional ensembles and artists.

The dance company’s bold and innovative program features two Baroque dancers performing, three musicians playing Baroque guitar, Baroque cello, and hand drum, and a mezzo-soprano singing.  The concert will also showcase a rich tapestry of 17th- and 18th-century Spanish Baroque guitar music and the visionary poetry of New World feminist Sor Juana de la Cruz.  A lively period folk melody from Veracruz, Mexico will be set to the haunting Baroque melody 'La Folia’, with a riveting demonstration by the Martinez Academy of Arms the Spanish Destreza fencing technique.