Rockport Music presents: Sowah Mensah, African Drummer

Description

Sowah Mensah is an ethnomusicologist, composer and a ''Master Drummer'' from Ghana, West Africa. Sowah has taught music in both Ghana and Nigeria and is currently a music professor at both Macalester College, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN where he also directs each school's African Music Ensemble. He has performed extensively in the United States, the Latin Americas, and in Africa, where he performed with the Ghana National Symphony Orchestra. In the United States, he has performed with notables such as Max Roach, Don Chery, Roscoe Mitchel, and Julius Hemphil, as well as the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Chanticleer and St. Paul Civic Symphony. Free, No tickets required