Wofa/Tambou Bo Kannal

The original music and dance of Guinea have already been preserved and updated through the performances of Wofa. Beneath the path of François Kokelaere, the creator of the Country wide Outfit of Guinean Percussion of Organization Wassa, the seven-piece music group and three dancers sign up for together to make a show the Bangor Daily Information called “amazing and interesting.” The music artists and dancers of Wofa all hail from your Guinean capital town of Conakry and participate in the caste-less Soussou, probably one of the most liberal organizations in traditional western Africa. Originally carrying out collectively in Morciré Camara’s Rhythmic Tempo, they required top honors in the 1st Country wide Percussion Competition in 1988. Renaming themselves Wassa, the group toured through the entire early ’90s, carrying out in European countries, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Breaking from Wassa in 1993, the music artists continued to execute collectively as Wofa, acquiring their name from your Soussou terms for “arrive.” Their first break arrived in 1995 if they had been chosen out greater than a thousand organizations to perform in the African Artwork and Scene Marketplace in Abidjian. Wofa’s audio is definitely propelled with a polyrhythmic mix of drums, rattles, and shakers. The group includes such indigenous devices as the Kryin, a solid wood drum shaped just like a tree trunk and used sticks, as well as the wassakhoumba, a musical instrument that is definitely made of little calabash discs strung onto a bit of wood, that creates a rattlesnake-like sound.