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HopStop Family Performance Balafon Beats with Mamadou Diabaté

Enchanting music from a master of the balafon.

Saturday, April 23, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
Hop Plaza
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Performances

Musician and composer Mamadou Diabaté shares his award-winning talents on the balafon, an instrument which resembles a xylophone with wooden sound bars that are reinforced with hollowed out gourds. Diabaté's use of rhythm with the balafon's unique sound creates a captivating musical experience. His music honors millennia-old West African culture and tells the stories of the Sambla people who live in 12 villages in Burkina Faso.

Experience the sound of the balafon in this performance by Mamadou and his band Percussion Mania.

Language translation will be offered by Laura McPherson, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Dartmouth College.

Learn more here

For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
hopkins.center.for.the.arts@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2422
Permanent URL to this event: https://president.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=66306

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