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WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Hafiz Shabazz, director

Music of the Fulani

with special guest
The Fula Flute Ensemble

Saturday, MAY 13

8 pm • Spaulding Auditorium
$12 • Dartmouth students $3
All other students $6 • General admission

Teaming up with Dartmouth's World Music Percussion Ensemble is The Fula Flute Ensemble, a New York-based group of African and African-oriented musicians specializing in the music of Guinea, especially the traditional flute or tambin music of the nomadic Fulani people. Haunting, soulful and profound, the sounds of this long wooden flute—played by the master Bailo Bah—invoke the Fouta Djalon Highlands of Guinea in West Africa. The ensemble's fresh jazz-style approach to traditional music, heard on their recording on Blue Monster Records, brings West Africa to the west. With well-known kora player Yacouba Sissoko, and a bassist, vocalist and balafon performer, The Fula Flute Ensemble—and the World Music Percussion Ensemble—offer a rare opportunity to hear authentic music of the Fulani tribe.