Friday, May 21, 2010

Icicle Creek Music Center & Sankusem Present: 'African Music and Dance Festival June 13-17'

Icicle Creek Music Center & Sankusem Present:
African Music and Dance Festival

June 13-17th

Icicle Creek Music Center, Leavenworth, WA

Public Concert at Canyon Wren Recital Hall

June 17th at 7:30 pm

5-day African Music and Dance Festival

Distinguished Faculty

Professor Emeritus J.H. Kwabena Nketia (University of Ghana)

Professor Kofi Agawu (Princeton University)

Rachel Barton-Pine, (violin)

Master Drummer Obo Addy & his Okropong Drum and Dance Ensemble

Dr.George François (piano)

The Icicle Creek Piano Trio:
Jennifer Caine, violin; Sally Singer, cello; and Oksana Ezhokina, piano

Space is limited, full and partial packages available, register today!

For more Festival information, concert tickets, and registration forms visit

http://www.icicle.org or http://www.sankusem.org

College credits & Professional Development Clock Hours available through Seattle Pacific University. For more information go to http://www.spu.edu/depts/soe/spiral

"Promoting contemporary music composition, dance choreography, performances and scholarly works that use African Folk idioms as source material for their explorations"

Sankusem was founded in Ghana, West Africa, in 2008. Sankusem’s mission is to promote the composition, choreography, performance and scholarship of contemporary Art (classical) music and dance that significantly draws or derives from folk traditions of the tribal groups of Africa. These traditions include solo or ensemble drumming and dance pieces, instrumental and vocal music, rituals, and games.”

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