Jelykunda

A performance of African music and dance with Moussa Diabate and his group “Jelykunda.” A master dancer, drummer and musician, Moussa has toured throughout the world and performed on Broadway. He is a Griot, or repository of oral tradition, of the Malinke people of Guinea, West Africa. He was taught the dance, music, storytelling, history and mythology of West Africa by his father, Komba Ansou Diabate, the “Great Griot of Guinea,” and by his mother, one of the first leading dancers with Les Ballets Africains. Moussa has trained and toured with the National Ballet Djoliba and the National Theatre of Dakar’s Ballet Silimbo.