West African Drumming

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.