African Music Cultural Night

African Music Cultural Night

Sunday February 12, 2012:
AFRICAN KORA PLAYER, SALIEU SUSO will present an evening of African music as part of Black History Month in the Elms College Library Theater at 7 p.m. Free admission.

African Koras, flutes, and djembe drums will be the featured musical program, in the Library Theater, as part of Black History Month. Kora player, Salieu Suso was born into a family of farmers and traditional Gambian musicians/historians that extends back nearly 1000 years. He was trained to play the twenty-one-stringed Kora (a West African Harp) beginning at the age of eight by his father, renowned Kora Player Alhaji Musa Makang Suso. He is a descendant of JaliMady Wulayn Suso, the inventor of the Kora. Suso graduated from high school in The Gambia, West Africa. He speaks fluent English as well as Mandigo, Fula, Wolof, Sarahulay, and some German. Before settling in the United States in 1989, Suso performed widely throughout Africa and Europe. Salieu Suso is the leader of the Jaliya Kafo Extended Family Music Ensemble.

Contact

Jose Tolson
413-265-2211