Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I enjoyed the Christmas break at home, spending lots of quality time with my little girl Ellery.
The concerts at the end of last year with Bill Summers and our presentation at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention were fantastic. You can view the full PASIC presentation here or if you just want to watch part of it, here is our performance of Twalibamukwano. Also, the prezi I presented at PASIC is here and excerpts of our concert with Bill can be found on my youtube page.
2014 is off to great start with Percussion Day at Oakland University this coming weekend and performances with Regina Carter and Biakuye the following weekend. Percussion Day is a free event hosted by Oakland University on Saturday, January 11 from 9am to 6pm. Register here and read all the details below. On Saturday, January 18th I will be performing with the Oakland Jazz Quartet, the Oakland Chamber Orchestra, and Regina Carter at 8pm in Varner Recital Hall. The concert will feature a new composition I just completed for gyil xylophone, jazz quartet, and chamber orchestra. The following Monday, January 20th, I’ll be celebrating Martin Luther King Day with my African percussion group, Biakuye, at the Ann Arbor Library. This all ages show is free and features my good friend Sulley Imoro, an incredible dancer from Ghana.
