Music Department Residency Mamadou Diabate and Percussion Mania
Rippling, riveting West African traditional music from a region where music and life are interwoven.
Location
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Mamadou Diabate isn’t just an award-winning virtuoso on the rippling, xylophone-like balafon, he is also an ambassador for the incredible West African musical culture of Burkina Faso’s Sambla people. There, each village, family and profession has its own piece of music which functions like a coat of arms, music is composed for every important occasion, and communal work is accompanied by music. In Percussion Mania, Diabate and his band members create a riveting, danceable weave of balafon, drums, flute, kora, ngoni and electric bass.
Location
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
