BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//74.208.236.113//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts X-WR-CALDESC:Enriching Community through Music and the Arts X-FROM-URL:https://www.wcc-ma.org X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-3645@www.wcc-ma.org DTSTAMP:20240328T193709Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Claremont HopStop\,Education\,Music\,World Music CONTACT:Hop Box Office\; 603.646.2422\; hop.box@dartmouth.edu\; https://hop .dartmouth.edu/events/balafon-beats?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&ut m_campaign=2022-04-15-hopstopbalafonbeats-segmentedlist&utm_content=versio n_A DESCRIPTION:
Please not the location for this event has been changed to Broad Street Park for the 3PM performance in Clar emont.
\nMusician 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. Diab até’s use of rhythm with the balafon’s unique sound creates a captivating musical experience. His music honors millennia-old West African culture an d tells the stories of the Sambla people who live in 12 villages in Burkin a Faso.
\nExperience the sound of the balafon in this performance by Mamadou and his band Percussion Mania.
\nLanguage translation will be offered by Laura McPherson\, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Dart mouth College.
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