Putting our best beats forward

TRJE to open for Bolokada’s AfroPop Sex­tet

The Three Rivers Jenbé Ensem­ble will open for Bolokada Conde and the Sum­mit City AfroPop Sex­tet on Octo­ber 29, at the Rhine­hart Music Cen­ter on the IPFW campus.The FREE con­cert begins at 7:30PM.

The ensem­ble will bring their own inter­pre­ta­tion of tra­di­tional Malinké music eme­nat­ing from Bolokada’s home in Guinea, West Afrika. The group is a TRIAAC pro­gram and has been play­ing their musi­cal inter­pre­ta­tions for the last 13 years, through­out North­east Indi­ana. We are look­ing for­ward to the oppor­tu­nity to bring our love of the music and cul­ture to the stage, said Ketu Oladuwa, TRIAAC’s artis­tic director.

Through TRIAAC’s Vis­it­ing Artist Forum TRJE has stud­ied with other Mande mas­ters, includ­ing Famoudou Konate, Moustapha Ban­goura, Alisco Dia­bate, Abass Camara, and Mand­jou Mara.

We’ll be putting our best beats for­ward, said Oladuwa.

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