AMADOU KOUYATE: African Kora Player & Singer January 16, 2010

AMADOU KOUYATE: African Kora Player & Singer

He has performed with Mamaya African Jazz and the African American Dance Ensemble. Currently, Amadou performs as a solo artist and as a member of Farafina Kan, the Wato Sita Project/World Music Ensemble, the Manding Griot Ensemble, the Kouyate Family, Urban Afrikan, Memory of African Culture Performing Company, Dono Percussion Ensemble and the Hueman Prophets. His credits include performances at The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institution, Lowell, East-Lansing and Dayton National Folk Festivals, DanceAfrica DC and Chicago as well as with The National Symphony Orchestra, Images of Cultural Artistry Performing Company, the production "Soul Possessed," directed by Debbie Allen and in Sweet Honey in The Rocks premiere performance of INDABA, with the WPAS Men and Women of the Gospel. (http://www.ottleymusic.org/faculty.php?WEBYEP_DI=10)