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Saturday, January 17, 2015
Oakland Workshop with Bolokada
Djembe and dunun instruction from one of the Masters of Mandingue music and culture!
Expect to dive deep into malinke rhythms as Bolo will show all djembe and dunun parts, cultural history and stories, song lyrics, solo phrases, dunun echauffements all musical nuance that is paramount to this type of music.
Class Schedule
Sunday February 8th 1-3PM
Sunday February 15th 1-3PM
Sunday February 22nd 1-3PM
Price: $20 per workshop, $35 if you sign up for two at once, and $50 if you sign up for all three at once
Expect to dive deep into malinke rhythms as Bolo will show all djembe and dunun parts, cultural history and stories, song lyrics, solo phrases, dunun echauffements all musical nuance that is paramount to this type of music.
Bring your pad and paper! audio recording OK. Video recording is prohibited.
Email me or call for any questions. Rental Djembes are available.
Bolo will have his 2 latest CDs and maybe even a djembe or 3 for sale.
More about Bolo:
Bolokada Conde is true Master Djembefola (master drummer), expert of Malinke Rhythms and one of world’s best djembe player.
Bolokada was a young musical prodigy who became a sensation in the Sankaran region of Guinea, West Africa. As a master folklorist, he became the premier djembe player in all the major village celebrations in the region for many years.
Bolokada joined the world famous Les Percussion du Guinee to replace the legendary Momoudy Keita as their lead drummer. He traveled and performed in major performance venues all over the world since 1996 and was featured in the IMAX movie PULSE: a Stomp Odyssey.
Since 2004, he has been performing and teaching in the United States. He is the musical director and lead soloist of Ballet Waraba in North Carolina, Ballet Wassa-Wassa in Santa Cruz, California and Les Percussion Malinke in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has conducted percussion workshop all over the US and Europe.
He has released four musical cd's Morowaya, Sankaran, Djiraworo, and Famille Dundunba. He is the subject of a documentary "Bolokada Conde- Malinke Village Djembefola”
He is an Artist Associate at the Robert E. Brown Center For World Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, having previously been a visiting lecturer from 2008 to 2011.
Mamady Keita, the best known djembe player in the world, calls Bolokada “A brilliant and entertaining performer, a patient and precise teacher, and as one of the few masters of his instrument. Few others are able to captivate his audience as he does, an even fewer are able to clearly and concisely teach this music."
He was awarded immigrant status as an alien with extraordinary ability in the arts in 2007.
Expect to dive deep into malinke rhythms as Bolo will show all djembe and dunun parts, cultural history and stories, song lyrics, solo phrases, dunun echauffements all musical nuance that is paramount to this type of music.
Class Schedule
Sunday February 8th 1-3PM
Sunday February 15th 1-3PM
Sunday February 22nd 1-3PM
Price: $20 per workshop, $35 if you sign up for two at once, and $50 if you sign up for all three at once
Expect to dive deep into malinke rhythms as Bolo will show all djembe and dunun parts, cultural history and stories, song lyrics, solo phrases, dunun echauffements all musical nuance that is paramount to this type of music.
Bring your pad and paper! audio recording OK. Video recording is prohibited.
Email me or call for any questions. Rental Djembes are available.
Bolo will have his 2 latest CDs and maybe even a djembe or 3 for sale.
More about Bolo:
Bolokada Conde is true Master Djembefola (master drummer), expert of Malinke Rhythms and one of world’s best djembe player.
Bolokada was a young musical prodigy who became a sensation in the Sankaran region of Guinea, West Africa. As a master folklorist, he became the premier djembe player in all the major village celebrations in the region for many years.
Bolokada joined the world famous Les Percussion du Guinee to replace the legendary Momoudy Keita as their lead drummer. He traveled and performed in major performance venues all over the world since 1996 and was featured in the IMAX movie PULSE: a Stomp Odyssey.
Since 2004, he has been performing and teaching in the United States. He is the musical director and lead soloist of Ballet Waraba in North Carolina, Ballet Wassa-Wassa in Santa Cruz, California and Les Percussion Malinke in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has conducted percussion workshop all over the US and Europe.
He has released four musical cd's Morowaya, Sankaran, Djiraworo, and Famille Dundunba. He is the subject of a documentary "Bolokada Conde- Malinke Village Djembefola”
He is an Artist Associate at the Robert E. Brown Center For World Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, having previously been a visiting lecturer from 2008 to 2011.
Mamady Keita, the best known djembe player in the world, calls Bolokada “A brilliant and entertaining performer, a patient and precise teacher, and as one of the few masters of his instrument. Few others are able to captivate his audience as he does, an even fewer are able to clearly and concisely teach this music."
He was awarded immigrant status as an alien with extraordinary ability in the arts in 2007.
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