On Wednesday, Nov. 28 the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble performed in the Mahaney Center for the Arts under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Damascus Kafumbe. The performance is the culmination of Professor Kafumbe's African Music, Dance, and Performance. "With emphasis on technique, style, and form, we will get hands-on experience playing various types of East African musical instruments," Professor Kafumbe writes in the course description. The sample above, entitled "Ennyana Ekutudde" ("A Calf Has Escaped" in English), features some of these instruments with Professor Kafumbe and his students playing four types of drums and many twelve-slab xylophones.
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