WHO:  Standing Rock Cultural Arts in partnership with The Crosby Archives and Cultural Gardens and Jali Productions presents

WHAT:   Global Celebration Kora Music Concert with Papa Susso ofGambia

-Papa Susso is Griot, or Jili, Master Kora Player

-Papa Susso will be performing a debut performance with the group, Rhythm of Love

WHEN:  Friday, May 8, 7-9pm

WHERE:  SRCA GALLERY

-300 N. Water St., Suite H.  Kent, OH

Admission:  $20.  Proceeds benefit the Crosby Archives and Cultural Gardens, Jali Productions, and SRCA

PAPA SUSSO BIO

Alhaji Papa Susso (Suntu) is a griot or jeli, master kora player, and director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition. He was born 29 September 1947, in the village of Sotuma Sere in the Upper River Division of The Republic of Gambia, West Africa.  The Susso family represents a dynasty of traditional oral historians and praise singers. His father taught him to play the kora, a 21-stringed, lute-like instrument, when he was five years old. Papa Susso's ancestors were instrumental in the creation, as well as the development of the instrument for over two centuries.  

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