The Royal Drummers of Burundi
with special guest MOMBASA PARTY
Saturday, September 30, 8:00 PM
Sanders Theatre
45 Quincy St
Cambridge, 02138
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One of the greatest percussion ensembles in the world, the Royal Drummers of Burundi are a spectacle of music and dance. Full of energy, grace and pure athleticism, they hammer out compelling rhythms and complex syncopations while leaping, dancing and singing over their waist-high drums.
The Mombasa Party, one of the largest and most respected taarab groups in Kenya, celebrates the acoustic traditions of this joyous African music. Taarab echoes the sounds of Bollywood with its rich Arabic and Indian melodies. Its unique instrumentation combines African percussion with Indian harmonium, tabla and tashkota (a Japanese toy instrument akin to a small koto with a typewriter-like keyboard used to pluck the strings).
