Odadaa

The music and dance traditions of Ghana are preserved through the playing of New York-based drummer and choreographer Yacub Addy and his group, Odadaa! As the New York Moments known as the group, “a treasure,” Tempo magazine recommended that Odadaa! provided a “glance right into a living globe where music — drumming, especially — may be the lifeblood of the city, a fresh knowing of one’s personal and one’s siblings.” Explaining a concert by Odadaa!, the Washington Post composed, “Odadaa!” pieces the stage ablaze with outstanding robes, torrential drumming, and frenzied dance.” Produced in 1982, Odadaa! can be an expansion of groupings that Addy provides led since 1957, including Ashieduketrekre, the first professional Ghanaian group to execute in the Western. The group took its name from a normal rhythm that’s played one per year to celebrate the starting from the harvest time of year from the Ga folks of Ghana’s capital, Accra.