Three sets of vibey African style instrumentals for your Sunday arvo. No cover!

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Three sets of vibey African style instrumentals to destroy your Saturday night

Two sets of vibey African style instrumentals on Chicago’s South Side. Emil Rojo opens!

Offered as part of the Fretboard Summit. In this session, attendees will be able to view and play these instruments up-close. Andy Powers of Taylor Guitars will be on-hand to talk about the guitars' unique construction techniques…and put them through their paces.

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Offered as part of the Fretboard Summit. Braddock has spent twenty years traveling in Africa and collaborating with musicians from across the continent. In this workshop, he will share music from the continent's many fingerstyle acoustic guitar traditions. We'll look at music from Ghana, Mali, Congo, and beyond, touching on the styles of palmwine, guitare seche, desert blues, makossa, and more. Tablature provided. Bring a capo.

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Join us in Northampton for a show w Ghanaian legend, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley.

Join the group for this amaziing festival w Courtney Barnett, Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman, Mt Joy, La Lom, Futurebirds, et al.

Details to come!

Three sets of vibey African style instrumentals for your Sunday arvo. No cover!

Join us for a set and jam session at West Africa’s premier jazz venue

Join us for a set and jam session in this incredible space

Join us as part of this festival of Francophone African improvised music

Join us as part of this festival of Francophone African improvised music

Solo guitar set followed by the Italian cello/guitar/pedal wizard Paolo Angeli. Beautiful! Curated by the incredible people at Secret Planet.

A night of acoustic solo and duet performances. Nathaniel Braddock performs modern fingerstyle guitar music as well as a large repertoire of African acoustic styles learned on his travels through West and Central Africa. Braddock leads groups Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int'l, Trio Mokili, and the Accra Quartet, and has just released a record of palmwine music recorded with musicians in Accra, Ghana. Abdoulaye Conde is a kora player taught in the griot tradition of his home city Conakry, Guinea. He is also a visual artist and muralist working in his signature style of "Gnabassan," which reflects his Malinke heritage and experiences across cultures. His original paintings and murals can be found throughout Conakry and other cities. 

Former OTS teacher Nathaniel Braddock returns to share his recent research of guitar music from his travels in West and Central Africa. For this talk, he will focus on his chapter, "African Electrical Networks," from the newly-published Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar, as well as from his forthcoming article in the Fretboard Journal, “Mathématiques Congolaises: The Hidden Luthiers of Modern Kinshasa.” This program is designed as a presentation and conversation with the school community, and not as a hands-on workshop. Braddock will share videos, audio, and photographs, and discuss new ideas in how people are writing about guitar music.

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Braddock has spent twenty years traveling in Africa and collaborating with musicians from across the continent. In this workshop, he will share music from the continent's many fingerstyle acoustic guitar traditions. We'll look at music from Ghana, Mali, Congo, and beyond, touching on the styles of palmwine, guitare seche, desert blues, makossa, and more. Tablature provided. Bring a capo.

Register HERE

Two sets of African musics from my Mokili, OBDBI, and Kobeta repertoires. Guests!

Boston-area all star Ugandan band with guest singers from Kampala, Sophie Nantongo and Hajji Haruna Mubiru. I play the guitar

I’m filling in with this amazing Kinshasa band at the Shakori Fest, Pittsboro, NC

OBDBI return to Madison, presented by our friends at Blue Stem Jazz. Venue Link here