What about those fabuloius jenbe kids

Posted by admin on Nov 2, 2011

Three Rivers Jenbe Ensem­ble on stage

TRJE brought the fire and the funk

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Three Rivers Jenbe Ensem­ble who brought the fire and the funk to the stage at the Auer Per­for­mance Hall on the IPFW cam­pus last Sat­ur­day night. The young play­ers opened for the incred­i­ble Moussa Bolokada Conde and the Sum­mit City AfroPop Sextet.

The mem­bers –Anisah, Tim, Ellen, Kemit, Tay­lor, Anthony, and Diarra were poised, pro­fes­sional and on fire. Their 35-minute set brought a stand­ing ova­tion from the 400-plus audi­ence, many of who were in the the­atre for the first time. The Sat­ur­day night per­for­mance was the first leg in TRJE’s fall tril­ogy of performances.

On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 16, they’ll be in con­cert at 6:45PM, at Grace Col­lege in Winona Lake, IN. And the fol­low­ing Thurs­day, Novem­ber 17, at 7PM, they’ll be back at IPFW, but this time at Walb Union ball­room for Inter­na­tional Edu­ca­tion Week. 

The ensem­ble has been in exis­tence since the fall of 1999. This group­ing took over from the class that grad­u­ated in 2008 and 2010. The youth are self-organized and directed, with TRIAAC staff super­vis­ing and coun­sel­ing their admin­is­tra­tion and artis­tic direction.

If you know a young per­son between 13–18 years old who might be inter­ested in play­ing the tra­di­tional music of the Mande peo­ple of West Afrikan, with some incred­i­ble Amer­i­can youth hit the but­ton below and get them involved.

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