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Art Students Collaborate: Put on show w/ UGANDAN ARTISTS artists KINOBE & Soul Beat Africa
Expressive Arts instructors Cheryl Mansley, from San Mar Children's Home, and Laura First Oehser, from The Jefferson School, are teaching their students how to produce an event that will feature Ugandan artists Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa. The students are learning the many steps it takes to bring an event from conception to finale. One student helped to prepare this press release. Another helped design posters and flyers. Groups of them worked on marketing by distributing the posters and flyers to towns around the area and talking to people about the show, while others worked on designing the stage. All this, and they're learning about another culture, too!
On Friday, April 3rd at 7:00pm, Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa will be in concert at The Jefferson School in Jefferson, Maryland. This event is, in part, a fundraiser for both schools. Proceeds from a bake sale that will be held at the show will go towards the Expressive Arts Program at San Mar Children's Home, and a portion of the proceeds from the door will go to support the arts at The Jefferson School.
Founded in 1883, as an orphanage for boys and girls in need, San Mar Childrens Home has provided care to hundreds of children and youth. Today, the home operates to provide care to adolescent and preadolescent girls who have experienced trauma. It is San Mar's mission to enable these girls to understand and address the issues they are facing and move forward to become successful and productive members of society. The Jefferson School provides special education, mental health, and residential treatment services for adolescents with emotional challenges. Working closely with the students' families, services are provided which promote family strength and preservation. Students are assisted to reach their full potential and achieve an optimum quality of life.
Kinobe (pronounced “CHI-NO-BÉ”) is an accomplished musician from Uganda whose early abilities in traditional African music quickly garnered acclaim on the world stage. Born in 1983 near Lake Victoria, he began playing music at the age of five, and five years later traveled to the Netherlands with a group of musicians for his first international performance. It was this trip that introduced him to the diversity of musical traditions throughout the world, opening his ears to new sounds, and launching a life-changing interest in world music. In the years that followed, Kinobe traveled the African continent, performing with such figures in African roots music as Toumani Diabate, Youssou N’dour, Salif Keita, Angelique Kidjo, Oliver Mtukudzi, Baaba Maal, Ismael Lo, and many others. He is a lifelong student, teacher, lover, and purveyor of the great diversity of African musical traditions. He has given solo concerts and workshops on traditional instruments throughout Europe, and in 2007, under the support of CulturesFrance, Kinobe made his first major tour to 18 countries around Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Although Kinobe and his band Soul Beat Africa have been bringing their energetic and highly visual show to audiences across Europe and Africa for years, this is their first American tour.
They are the new voice of Ugandan music, the inspired synthesis of African roots and world music, of traditional and modern instrumentation. The musicians represent the new vanguard of Ugandan performers, gifted instrumentalists steeped in the music of their homeland, but with ears opened to the sounds of the world at large. Driving poly-rhythms underlay transcendent melodies. Traditional African instruments – koras, kalimbas, adungus, endongos, ngonis, drums – blend with guitars and keyboards, drawing on influences from around the globe, creating a new groove for a new world.Friday, April 3, 2009, Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa will be in concert at the Jefferson School located at 2940 Point of Rocks Road, Jefferson, Maryland. The phone number for The Jefferson School is 240-315-0200. Doors open at 6:15pm; show begins at 7:00pm. Admission is a $10 donation per person at the door with children ages 5-and-under free. For more information, contact Cheryl Mansley at 304-702-0554 or riverhousemusic@....
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