WORLD MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLEDrums, Chants and the Spoken Word:A Three Part SeriesAfro-Celtic Collaboration: Music for the Peoplewith special guest Gypsy Reel Hafiz Shabazz, director Wednesday, May 20 • 7 pm The World Music Percussion Ensemble combines a diversity of traditions with power-packed playing. Led by ethnomusicologist, drummer and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music Hafiz Shabazz since 1984, the group explores a wide range of world music, from ancient African rhythms to contemporary Afro-pop, Caribbean, Brazilian and Indian music and world jazz. Concerts often feature professional guest musicians, for example Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, saxophonist Odean Pope, master drummer Abdoul Doumbia, flutist Ko Umezaki, founder of famed ensemble ODADAA! Yacub Addy, 35th Parallel MediterrAsian Jazz Ensemble, balaphonist El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyaté and The Fulani Flute Ensemble.
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