Global Beat of the Boroughs
A Concert Series Celebrating the Music and Dance Traditions
of New York City's Immigrant Cultural Communities
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Tickets: $26, $21 for students, seniors and members of CTMD, Symphony Space, World Music Institute and WNYC.

To purchase call (212) 864-5400 or www.symphonypace.org

Abdoulaye Diabate is New York’s most accomplished representative of an 800-year tradition of oral historians, storytellers and musicians known as jalilu, or griots. Diabate and his band, Super Manden, are featured on Badenya, Manden Jaliya in New York City (2002 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings CD produced by CTMD).

The Super Manden band combines kora; balafon, tambin, guitar, bass and percussion for a danceable sound that packs the city’s African parties.

 The Kotchegna Dance Company, founded by Vado Diomande in 1996, will recreate masked dances from regions of the Ivory Coast including the acrobatic Gue-Pehlu spirit stilt dance, of which Diomande is New York’s foremost master dancer and choreographer.