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Visiting Artist’s October Schedule

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Visiting Artist’s October Schedule

Res­i­dency sched­ule open to the community Moussa Bolokada Conde will arrive in Fort Wayne on Octo­ber 22, 2011. For five of the nine days he’ll be teach­ing and per­form­ing in Fort Wayne, he will be acces­si­ble to the pub­lic. One of the world’s most mas­ter­ful teach­ers and play­ers, Bolokada has trav­eled the world bring­ing his unique tal­ents and insights to wel­com­ing stu­dents worldwide. Lis­ten to Bolokada Conde’s jenbe mastery.   Bolokada Res­i­dency Schedule Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 22, 5-7PM, Potluck com­mu­nity ban­quet, at TRIAAC,...

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Putting our best beats forward

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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...

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FREE AfroPop concert October 29th

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<span class="caps">FREE</span> AfroPop concert October 29th

Local AfroPop Sex­tet to back Bolokada Six of the Sum­mit City’s most accom­plished musi­cians will back vis­it­ing artist Moussa Bolokada Conde when he per­forms in con­cert on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 29, 7:30PM. The FREE con­cert is in the Auer Per­for­mance Hall, at IPFW’s Rhine­hart Music Center. Bolokada will per­form with the Sum­mit City AfroPop Sex­tet, fea­tur­ing Abass Camara on vocals, and the tra­di­tional Malinké dunun drums and bolon; Jim Steele on key­boards, Clif Wal­lace on drums, and Brian Derek on bass round­ing out the rhythm sec­tion....

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TRIAAC welcomes master drummer & folklorist Bolokada Conde

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<span class="caps">TRIAAC</span> welcomes master drummer <span class="amp">&</span> folklorist Bolokada Conde

Jenbe mas­ter to teach in Fort Wayne The clear beauty and explo­sive power of the jenbé drum in the hands of a mas­ter is a work of art, and in less than three weeks a mas­ter of that art and the folk­lore of the Malinke peo­ple of West Afrika will debut ina 9-day Sum­mit City res­i­dency. TRIAAC, the Three Rivers Insti­tute of Afrikan Art & Cul­ture, will host Guinean mas­ter artist Moussa Bolokada Condé, an inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized mas­ter of Malinké cul­tural music and folk­lore, from Octo­ber 22 to 31. Steeped in the rich his­tory and...

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