He sat in with bands, studied folkloric drumming, and eventually relocated to Dakar to start a group with Senegalese players. Now Walli is leading his second Dakar-based band, Asamaan, releasing music and performing alongside the denizens of Dakar: N'Dour, Baaba Maal, Super Diamond, Ismael...
We areAlokli West African Dance, a community dance-drumming club based in Philadelphia, PA. We teach and perform Anlo-Ewe and other West African music & dance styles from Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. Recently we've become a publisher as well, with a newAfrican songbook w/ CDavailabl...
This site offers tools and insights to help you learn, understand, and play traditional West African drum beats, especially the djembe (jembe) and dunun (dundun) rhythms of Guinea.I share with you what I have learned in over 20 years of study with master drummers and from performance in ...
the main tourist strip on Maui. A few of us who had been drumming for African dance classes were asked to play some rhythms for a visiting Guinean dancer named Simbo, and also a Haitian piece for Lasensua since we’d also been playing for her class. I was looking forward...
djembe & djunjun drumming, West African dance, workshops trips to Mali, West Africa book on West African traditional music, rhythm, and culture -in progress CD, drums, African clothing & accessories Joh Camara Djembe SolofromDaniel JacobsonVimeo. ...
West African “talking drums” known as dùndún can accurately replicate speech with a remarkable level of detail, new research finds. The study, published in the journalFrontiers in Communication, compares 30 verbal recordings—both spoken and sung—in theYorùbálanguage with excerpts of drumming ...
West African Drums at Cleveland Multicultural Event TheGolden Ciphersperformed traditional West African drumming from Guinea at the International Community Council - Worldwide Intercultural Network's (ICC-WIN) 5th annual multicultural holiday celebration at the Global Center for Health Innovation in the Cle...
most excited about is that in the back, Kobrenski included a ton of original drum transcriptions he collected himself on his visits to West Africa. He also talks about in what context he heard the drumming. Highly recommended for drummers, music teachers, or people interested in West Africa....
(sabar) and Western jazz, soul, Latin, and rock. Each night, throughout the city, a variety of venues offer live music in small venues. Music is scheduled to begin at 9 pm, but in African time, that typically means the musicians show up after 9:30 pm and begin playing after 10 pm...
Vado learned over 60 ethnic dance and drumming traditions from the Ivory Coast and other West African countries. His repertoire elevated his career to eventually choreographing and touring extensively throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia. In 1989 he established L'Ensemble Kokiegna d'Abidjan,...