Moussé Ndiaye & Renzo Spiteri in Concert - March 2002
Book for the Percussion Workshops with Moussé Ndiaye
Acclaimed Senegalese percussionist Moussé
Ndiaye
(in picture) will be in Malta
between 22 February and 13 March, 2002,
to give three concerts with Renzo Spiteri
and to lead a number of workshops for students and for the general public.
Moussé Ndiaye, who is also an educator and cultural promoter, will be coming to Malta after touring Germany and Austria, doing workshops and promoting his unique way of "living" music.
Moussé Ndiaye has been invited to Malta by the volunteers of the Third World Group as part of the "Ritmi" project to raise funds for their projects in Malta. The Group had invited Moussé Ndiaye to its African Week held mainly at the University of Malta in March 1999.
Moussé
Ndiaye has played with Youssou Ndour (in picture), Baaba Maal, Orchestra Baobab,
and
other renowned musicians and bands, will be spending two weeks in Malta to
give percussion workshops and to prepare for his concert with Renzo Spiteri
at the MITP (Old University) theatre in St. Christopher's Street, Valletta, on Friday 1,
Saturday 2 and Sunday, 3 March, at 7.30pm.
This will be the first time a Maltese percussionist will be giving a
concert together with an African percussionist.
Renzo Spiteri is the musical director of the Ritmi project
which started in April 1999. In October he started giving drum circle
workshops, based on the djembe (in picture) for the general public and these have been so successful that
his students have convinced him to do a second cycle of ten workshops
starting on Monday 21 January (comments
by participants). The fund-raising "Ritmi" project
also aims to make more people aware of the richness of West African
cultures.
Moussé Ndiaye has played all over Europe and has taught
music at a number of leading institutions, like the University Helsinki.
In Finland he founded a number of groups forming a “Federation of Hope”
spread all over the country.
Pianist and professional music therapist Rosetta De
Battista,
who worked closely with Moussé Ndiaye when he visited Malta in 1999,
describes his work as "truly phenomenal". He is "a gifted
musician and educator whose main aim to to expose your own musical nature
rather than his own
For workshop applications, concert tickets, and more information about "Ritmi" and the activities of Moussé Ndiaye and Cheikhou Oumar Daff in Malta, write to ritmi2002@yahoo.co.uk.
One can also visit the "Ritmi" website at http://ritmi2002.cjb.net or the fair trade shop L-Arka at 306, Triq San Pawl il-Belt Valletta (tel. 21 244865).
The Third World Group is being supported by the fair trade shop L-Arka, by De La Salle College u St. Martin’s College, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Koperattiva Kulturali Universitarja (the University Cultural Cooperative), the Parliamentary Secretariat in the Ministry of Education and Sedqa the national agency against drug and alcohol abuse.
Adrian Grima
14 February, 2002
Renzo Spiteri
"Our feelings and behaviours towards life develop as a result of what happens constantly to us and around us. It is said that our dreams, visions and feelings are what makes us human. Unfortunately in our Western civilised culture, since our childhood, we are continuously trained to hide them."
Eric Edmond Van Monckhoven
Rosetta De Battista
"Rhythm
is everywhere around me, in the way
people move and speak; in the swaying of a baby in his mother’s arms; in the
sound of an idle engine; in the clapping of an audience chanting an
encore; in
the farmer tilling the field on an early morning.
Renzo Spiteri
The Protagonists
Moussé Ndiaye in Malta
The "Ritmi" Project
Rhythms for Life - Approved!
Partners in the
"Ritmi" Project
What is Rhythm to Me (Renzo)
In the Background
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