For our final Resonate! program this Wednesday, we present And Lay Duo, a special collaborative project by two members of the internationally-renowned Ethiopian funk and groove collective Debo Band, who were recently featured at SXSW.  The two will premiere traditional Ethiopian folk songs and original compositions.  Check out this video of Debo Band as a preview.

 

This April, Lincoln Center’s Meet the Artist joins New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs to present Resonate! African America in Sound and Story, four, FREE, Wednesday after-school programs that will explore the cultural connections of the African Diaspora today. Each hour-long (4−5 p.m.) program features a performance by a noted African or African-American artist, followed by discussion and questions and answers moderated by Meklit Hadero, Artist-in-Residence of New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

Today meet African-American vocalist Chanda Rule and African vocalist Somi performing Listening to Roots & Voicing Branches, a multi-media work combining video, story and song that attempts to redress intra-racial tensions in the African Diaspora by exploring the cultural memory of various strands of the Black Atlantic experience.