Brabant Center for Music Traditions

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Brabant Center for Music Tradiations
Brabants Centrum voor Muziektradities
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Location within Belgium
Established9 December 2011 (2011-12-09)
Location Kampenhout
Coordinates 50°56′27.987″N4°32′47.526″E / 50.94110750°N 4.54653500°E / 50.94110750; 4.54653500 Coordinates: 50°56′27.987″N4°32′47.526″E / 50.94110750°N 4.54653500°E / 50.94110750; 4.54653500
Website www.kampenhout.be/bcm/

The Brabant Center for Music Tradiations (Dutch: Brabants Centrum voor Muziektradities) is a museum and folk music center in Kampenhout in Flemish Brabant, Belgium. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

The center maintains a study and documentation center with around one thousand publications on traditional folk music in Flanders and the rest of Europe. [7] [8] During the year several changing thematic expositions are shown, next to the permanent musical instrument collection of violin and bagpipes player Hubert Boone  [ nl ], a collection of photographs of musicians and musical instruments and some music recordings. [8]

The collection of Boone plays an important role in the center. [7] As a scientific contributor he was affiliated to the Musical Instrument Museum of Brussels. He produced a variety of works on local music history and folk musical instruments. [8] He was a key member of the folk dance group De Vlier and the ensemble Limbrant. [7]

The center was inaugurated in the Glass Hall (Glazen Zaal) on 4 December 2011, in attendance of prominent Flemish music administrators and the mayor of Kampenhout. On this day an exhibition started on the society of the hummel instrument from the town Sint-Martens-Lennik, and live music was played by the MandolinMan Quartet. [8]

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References

  1. De Standaard, Doedelzakken in Villa Lucie, 23 May 2014 (in Dutch)
  2. Het Nieuwsblad, Kampenhout heeft eigen historisch muziekcentrum, 3 December 2011 (in Dutch)
  3. Gazet van Antwerpen, Brabants Centrum voor Muziektradities schiet wortel, 9 December 2011 (in Dutch)
  4. Het Laatste Nieuws, Steun voor plattelandsprojecten, 25 October 2016 (in Dutch)
  5. Folk Magazine, Limbrant/ A râse dè têre/ Crooniek/ De Fijnbesnaarden – Brabantse dansinitiaties, Steven Vanderaspoilden, 2 June 2016 (in Dutch)
  6. Canard Folk, Une exposition d'épinettes à Kampenhout, Guy et Micheline Vanden Bemden-Casier, 2012 (in French)
  7. 1 2 3 Muziekcentrum, Brabants Centrum voor Muziektradities (in Dutch)
  8. 1 2 3 4 Resonant, Centrum voor Muzikaal Erfgoed, Opening Brabants Centrum voor Muziektradities, 2011 (in Dutch)