- Tue3:15 - 5:00 pm
Description
Open to grades: 1 through 8 (minimum 5 students required for this class)
$150 (includes use of drum)
Classes will be held on: Tuesdays
3:15pm – 5:00pm
MLWS School Building
Amadou Diallo is a percussionist from Senegal, West Africa, and enthusiastically shares his culture with children and adults. Since arriving in the Hudson Valley in 2001, he’s done hundreds of performances, workshops, presentations and classes on West African culture and traditional African rhythms. Amadou has worked, both independently and in collaboration as a guest artist, with other area groups and performers. He teaches children in the TOPs program in the Kingston city school district and has an ongoing adult class in the Living Seed Yoga studio in New Paltz, New York. Amadou‘s classes are in the Djembe tradition and feature hand drums and large stick drums called Dun Duns. Students may have the opportunity to aid in the production of an original puppet show being created to honor Black History Month.
Class dates
10/07/2025, 10/14/2025, 10/21/2025, 10/28/2025, 11/04/2025, 11/18/2025
Restrictions
Participants must be entering grades 1 to 8.
Program enrollment capacity
Registration period
Registration starts on 09/16/2025 and ends on 11/18/2025.
In-person location
16 S Chestnut St, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
