African cultures merse at Lied
By Julie Naughton
Senior Reporter
“Africa Oye!” (Long Live Africa),
a melange of brightly colored sights
and rhythmic sounds, brought together
the cultures of Guinea, Zaire, Mali,
Senegal and Niger for an African
experience that was unique for Lin
coln audiences.
African dancers, acrobats and sing
ers in colorful native costumes brought
a powerful magic and energy to the
Lied Center for Performing Arts on
Tuesday night.
The evening consisted of 12 short
performances, divided evenly between
two acts.
The scene stealers of the evening
clearly were the Peul Acrobats in the
first act and singer Kandia Kouyate in
the second act.
The Peul Acrobats from Guinea,
led by El Madge Djclly Sorry Kouyate,
combined flute, percussion and
balafons with acrobatics. The acro
bats seemed to take a special joy in
their performance. With big smiles
on their faces, they flipped, cartwheeled
and at times brcakdanced through the
performance. The white balloon-type
long shorts they wore, presumably
native costumes, could have passed
for i he bubble skirts that were popular
several years ago.
Kandia Kouyatc, a singer from Mali,
has gained widespread popularity in
West Africa. Her performance Tues
day evening proved this popularity is
well-deserved. Kouyatc,clad in flow
ing robes and a headdress, belted native
songs in her strong, hannonious voice.
Kouyate’s authoritative voice
echoed throughout the Lied audito
rium as she performed “Koulan Djan”
and “The Manding Epic.” As she
danced to her own singing, her white,
rose and green robes glided about her
body. Through eyecontact, she easily
created a rapport with the audience.
Kouyate’s music is the music of
the griot, conveyers of historical
knowledge. Griots have the responsi
bility of orally reciting the history of
many West African people, and often
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arc considered celebrities in their native
lands. Kouyate is one of them.
When she spoke the only line of
English in the show — “Thank you, I
love you” — the audience went w ild,
saluting her with loud applause.
Also appearing in “Africa Oyc!”
were the Percussionists of Guinea,
tilling the halls with the thumping
sounds of percussion.
The Pende tribe, dancers and
musicians from Zaire, performed a
program similar to the Percussionists
of Guinea, while Batwa-Ekonda,
musicians from Zaire, performed
celebration dances and music, known
as the “joust of the tribes.”
Mbulie-Hcmba, also from Zaire,
did the dance of initiation, while
Kanouri,griols from Niger, portrayed
the Theme of the Chief, the Warrior
March and the Theme of the Ancient
Empire of Bornou.
Babunda, Zaire musicians, shared
African prayers for fertility with the
audience.
“Africa Oyc!” is the brainchild of
Michel Boudonand Mel Howard, two
men who were interested in bringing
the culture of Africa to the United
States. The show took more than four
years for the men to pul together, and
as Howard said, it is a synthesis of the
culture that still is being created in
Africa — rather than what already
has happened.
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Lincolmtes return in Ivory Snow
By John Payne
Senior Reporter
Folks who remember the promi
nent Lincoln bar band Street Legal
may want to check out Ivory Star at
the Pla-Mor Ballroom, 66(X) West O
St., Thursday night.
The 9 p.m. show will be its Lin
coln debut, but two of the band’s
members are anything but strangers
to the area.
Siblings Donette and Dave Smith
worked the college circuit for about
nine years with the cover outfit Street
Legal, finding a particularly good
following in northeast Nebraska. Since
breaking from their old band, the
Smiths have hooked up with three
members ol a South Dakota group
called Suit. The result: Ivory Star.
Much ol Street Legal’s radio cover
style has remained intact, which ought
to please the college crowds who
packed many of their previous shows
at places like the Pla-Mor or The
Precinct.
“There arc some similarities still
there,” said lead vocalist Donnetc
Sni ith. “I guess our style is a little hit
heavier, which is something that
(drummer) Dave and I wanted to do.”
Another thing Smith said he hopes
to do with Ivory Star is break away
from the standard cover band format.
“Right now, we’re doing covers,
hut our ultimate goal is to write origi
nal songs.”
The rest of Ivory Star hails from
Sioux Falls, S.D., including keyboar
dist Darrin Drew, bassist Jeff O’Con
nell und guitarist Gary Snow. In their
10 years of playing various Midwest
sites, they too had carved out a niche
for themselves.
“This is really a veteran band,”
said Smith, “and we all kind of know
that you have to give audiences some
thing new cvcrytimc out.
“That’s one of the things we’ll be
concentrating on — updating our live
show in order to satisfy people the
second time around.”
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