Intersections: West African Ghanaian & Irish Traditional Musics
Saturday, April 29 | 7PM
Join NY Irish Center as we explore the commonalities between Irish traditional music and West African Ghanaian music. Lively blended compositions drawing from Irish traditional music and West-African Ghanaian music that will be performed by renowned musicians from the Ghanaian drum ensemble Ekome Femo including Amos Gabia (voice/djembe/ dun dun), Raymond Odai Laryea (djembe/dun dun/ gankogui), Julian Bortey Kwandahor (djembe, voice, dance), Dylan James (Banjo), Matt Christian (fiddle), and ethnomusicologist and performer Colin Harte (vocals/piano/bodhrán/djembe).
The EIIC Creatives Concert: Irish, Malian, and Newly Composed
Songs of Spring, Rebirth, and Renewal
Thursday, May 11th | 7PM
Join the EIIC Creatives, artists in residence at the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, for an evening of Irish, West African (Malian) traditional and newly composed songs from internationally known Malian (Songhai) musician and singer Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure (guitar, gurmi), Irish traditional singer Mary Courtney (guitar/bodhrán), Irish singer/songwriter Allen Gogarty, and Chinese American blues musician Jeff Lum, plus a display of visual arts on the theme of spring, rebirth, and renewal.
This event copresented by EIIC and NYIC, with generous funding from Creatives Rebuild New York.