African week in Widen Primary school.
The primary school Widen offered to all their
Students workshops about Africa. The programm was about the Ashanti and
Northern Kingdom of Ghana.
We begann the workshop with songs of Africa. There
already they get prepared and dived into the African Art.
In this workshops we had three hours in the morning
and three hours in the afternoon. Every day the student got more into the mood
of the African week and the program get successful every day. On Friday we presented
a show to the entire village of Widen.
These are one of the most wonderful workshops I
used to give.
Worldmusic in Icon club Zürich
The event company rumdum invited us to perform together
with them in the Icon club in the heart of Zürich. The performance was a
workshop with drumming, dancing and singing. The members of the rundum company
are from all over the world and they are organizing traditional music from
various countries in Africa, Europe, America, Asia and Australia. It was very
interesting to work with them and they also brought a very good motivation to
learn African music and dance. In the end they asked us if we can combine our
African music with the DJ-work. A lot of songs were played, some familiar ones
and some were unknown to us. But
we used the skills of African Ghanaian traditional rhythms and melodies and
made a nice jam session. Once more I saw, Ghana music, percussion and bell fits
to every style.
We use the name wings of a dove percussion power to
travel with you all over the continent.
Lets party together.
We are at yout service.
African music and dance from Ghana and
Westafrica: Music Gymnasium (art highschool) Münchenstein, Switzerland
During three days, we worked
with three different levels of the Highschool of art in Münchenstein. The subject was African music, singing,
dancing, drumming, rhythmicity and also concentration, coordination and
communication in music and movements.
We used elements from all
over Africa, texts in Haussa language from Northern region of Nigeria, which is
actually a used as an international trade language in Africa. Additional we
used the language Ewe from Westafrica, which is also spoken in Togo, Ghana,
Benin. Some songs were in Akan language from the Ashanti region of Ghana,
Kumasi, and Fanti from the Central region of Ghana, Cape Coast, Elmina,
Winneba. Many dances, rhythms and songs were new to the students. they put all
their efforts in theses days and in the end we got a very good performance as a
result. The audience was also taking part and we sang with them. The cheering
and the applaus was immense. I always feel very happy in this school.
Invite our workshop in your
school and let your students profit from the richness of African music, dance
and rhythms with different percussion instruments.
