Kotoko Brass
City Streets Festival
Amherst College
Amherst
Amherst, MA 01002
Apr 21, 2024
6:00 PM EDT
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Occurring annually in the spring, City Streets Festival is an Amherst College campus celebration of international heritage, culture, and food from around the world. This year’s festival will feature an extensive menu, as well as a fire dance performance, live music, outdoor games, and more.
Amherst College students, faculty, staff, and their families are invited!
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Kotoko Brass Biography
Inspired by the traditional drum rhythms of Ghana, Kotoko Brass has created a unique, joyful, and improvisational style of West African dance music described by the Boston Globe as “propulsive, infectious party music”. The drums provide the heart and soul of Kotoko Brass — merging syncopated African percussion polyrhythms with hard-hitting dance grooves on the drumset. The horns blend traditional sounds of New Orleans with the famous West African brass band sound heard from Ghana to Nigeria, and the keyboard and bass evoke classic African and Caribbean styles of highlife, afrobeat, and reggae. A celebratory and energetic synthesis of music, people, and cultures from around the world, Kotoko Brass features musicians from Ghana, Antigua, Japan, and the United States playing together in unity.
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