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FLATFOOT FLATBUSH is Brooklyn's first-ever flatfooting parade, celebrated as part of Make Music New York's Winter Solstice Celebration. 

On December 21st, for the twelfth year, the North Flatbush Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) teams up with Make Music New York and Porch Stomp to bring you Flatfoot Flatbush, an exciting year of music and dancing to celebrate community and the winter solstice.

During Flatfoot Flatbush, dancers, fiddlers and pickers parade down the sidewalks of the ever-busy Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope/ Prospect Heights (Dean Street to Sterling Place) playing old-time tunes while flatfooting, a form of percussive dancing from Appalachia. The evening begins with a warm up and quick flatfooting workshop hosted by Megan Downes (City Stompers), at 1pm. Immediately following, the flatfooting parade will kick off and traverse Flatbush Avenue stopping along the way at local businesses to bring holiday cheer. The parade will finish at the 6th Avenue Triangle (intersection of Flatbush, 6th, and St Marks Avenues) with participatory group dances lead by the City Stompers and Brooklyn Contra, and a performance of northern English sword dancing and rendition of the mystical Abbots Bromley Horn Dance by Ring o'Bells Morris and Half Moon Sword.