Back By Popular Demand: Sean Gaskell Plays the Kora

Join us for a special after hours event featuring Sean Gaskell playing songs on the kora- a 21 stringed West African harp. Sean will play songs and discuss the cultural significance of the kora.
This even is free and open to the public.

Sean studied under the extensive instruction of Moriba Kuyateh and the late Malamini Jobarteh in Gambia, and both Youssoupha Cissokho and Mamadou Cissokho in Senegal. The kora is traditionally played by oral historians known as Griots. Many songs featured on the kora preserve an 800 year history dating back to the founding of the Mande empire. Gaskell has presented adult, youth and family programs at over 400 libraries and a multitude of k-12 schools, colleges, universities and assisted living facilities throughout the United States and Canada.