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2024 Cambridge Arts River Festival
Saturday, June 15, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Returns to the banks of the Charles River along Memorial Drive between JFK Street and Western Avenue.
Free admission
Six Stages of Music, Theater, Dance and Poetry
Mermaid Promenade
Interactive Art-Making
Buskers
International Foods
Arts and Crafts Market
World Music Stage from Global Arts Live
Noon – Albino Mbie
1:30 p.m. – Kotoko Brass
3 p.m. – Veronica Robles Female Mariachi Band
4:30 p.m. – Natu Camara
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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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