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Musician Sean Gaskell will present a performance and educational program featuring the kora, a 21-string West African harp, on Thursday, June 5 at 6 p.m. in Grizzly Hall at the Cody Library.
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Musician Sean Gaskell will present a performance and educational program featuring the kora, a 21-string West African harp, on Thursday, June 5 at 6 p.m. in Grizzly Hall at the Cody Library.
Gaskell studied the kora under the instruction of Moriba Kuyateh and the late Malamini Jobarteh in The Gambia, as well as Youssoupha Cissokho and Mamadou Cissokho in Senegal.
The kora is traditionally played by Griots, oral historians who use music to preserve genealogies, historical events and cultural traditions. Many of the songs performed on the kora date back more than 800 years to the founding of the Mande empire.
Gaskell has brought his kora programs to over 350 libraries and a wide range of audiences, including K-12 schools, colleges, universities and assisted living centers across the United States and Canada. His presentations combine musical performance with historical and cultural background on the instrument and its role in West African society.
This program is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Park County Library Foundation and the Friends of the Cody Library.
For more information about Sean Gaskell and his music, visit his website at seangaskell.com, or follow his work on Facebook at seangaskellmusician, Instagram at seangaskellmusic and YouTube at seangaskellmusic.
