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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Homeland Security: Celebrating African Music and Da
 nce at Berklee\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/44165621
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 Date Begin: 2013-01-28\nEvent Date End: 2013-01-28\n\nOn January 28\, at 8
 :15 pm\, Berklee presents Homeland Security: Celebrating Contemporary and 
 Traditional African Music and Dance\, highlighting the rich music\, compel
 ling stories\, and vibrant dance that are a way of life in Africa. The con
 cert will feature students from Ghana\, Kenya\, Mozambique\, Nigeria and S
 outh Africa who are studying at the college on scholarships\, as well as s
 tudents from the U.S.\n\nThe concert program includes original songs writt
 en by the students about their homelands and personal journeys. Student-pe
 nned pieces include &ldquo\;Va Gumulelana (No More War)\,&rdquo\; by Helde
 r Tsinine\, which in 2011 became the first non-English language song to wi
 n the Peacedriven Songwriting Contest\; &ldquo\;Battle&rdquo\; by Jason Ek
 habi Sibi-Okumu\, about his struggle with kidney failure\; and &ldquo\;Mwa
 namuziki&rdquo\; (Swahili for musician)\, by Annette Oduor\, paying homage
  to her hometown of Nairobi.\n\nTraditional pieces featuring drumming and 
 dance will bookend the concert. Berklee's 16-member West African Drum and 
 Dance Ensemble\, directed by Joe Galeota\, associate professor of Percussi
 on\, open the show with &ldquo\;Togo Atsia\,&rdquo\; originally a women's 
 dance piece from the coast of Ghana and Togo. While another group of stude
 nts\, choreographed by student Jeniffer Criss\, will close out the concert
  with &ldquo\;Sinte\,&rdquo\; from Guinea and Mali.\n\nThe West African Dr
 um and Dance Ensemble also features percussionist Victor &ldquo\;Blue&rdqu
 o\; Dogah. In 2008\, Dogah was named Berklee's first Africa Scholar &ndash
 \; an award covering full tuition and room and board for four years at Ber
 klee &ndash\; through the program instituted by Berklee president Roger H.
  Brown. This concert is dedicated to Brown and his wife Linda Mason in hon
 or of their humanitarian work in Africa and continued support of Africa's 
 musical community.\n
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SUMMARY:Homeland Security: Celebrating African Music and Dance at Berklee
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