Moussé Ndiaye & Renzo Spiteri in Concert - March 2002

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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

Renzo Spiteri

Moussé about his Malta Visit Concert with Renzo Spiteri 

Moussé Ndiaye

Rosetta about Moussé 

Tickets for the Concert 

Rosetta De Battista

Public Workshops for Adults Workshops in Schools
Sakhir Diop  Applications for Workshops Moussé Ndiaye, Malta 1999
André Micallef   Rosetta De Battista Interviewed  

Jesmond Psaila 

The "Ritmi" Project

The Aims of the Project The Project in Brief

Rhythms for Life - Approved!

Renzo's Drum Workshops
Presentation of Ethnic Instruments Comments about Workshops
Marguerite Agius in Verona The Times - Renzo's Workshops

Partners in the 

"Ritmi" Project

What is Rhythm to Me (Renzo)

Djembe Production in Ghana
Third World Group

In the Background

Koperattiva Kummerc Gust

Rhythm

Instruments from L-Arka

Griots of West Africa & Beyond
Parliamentary Secretariat in the Ministry of Education A Venerable Profession
The Griot & African Literature

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Renzo's 2000 Rhythms
Renzo's Percussion Extravaganza
 

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