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Join the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race for its October Integrated Art Circle, Exploration of World Music, at the 1978 Maplewood Arts Center (1978 Springfield Avenue, Maplewood). This world music experience will take place on Saturday mornings in October (dates: 10/5, 10/19, and 10/26) from 10 a.m. to noon. All materials will be provided, with a minimal use fee for the Kalimba, or the option to purchase one.Ethnomusicologist, performer, and teacher, Ahmondylla Best, will guide SOMA residents through alternative vocal techniques and the basics of playing the Kalimba, or “thumb piano”, which was invented in West Africa over 3,000 years ago.
Ahmondylla Best composes, sings, and plays various instruments including the flute, several African percussion and woodwind instruments such as hand drums (conga, djembe, etc.), umuduli (berimbau), mbira, steel pan, balafon, hindewhu, and didjiridu. Her specialty is the Shekere, a beaded gourd rattle, as played in Nigeria. She has taught workshops in percussion, alternative vocal techniques, and Shekere design and construction at institutions like Williams College, The University of Pittsburgh, Bates College, the Artists Collective in Hartford, Conn., and The New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Arts in Education Program. She is also a jewelry designer, visual artist, and craftswoman, with a degree in jewelry design from Fashion Institute of Technology.
RSVP here: https://www.communitycoalitiononrace.org/exploration_of_world_music
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1978 Maplewood Arts Center, 1978 Springfield Ave, Maplewood, NJ 07040-3437, United States,Maplewood, New Jersey
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