Join ZUMIX for their Summer Concert in Piers Park featuring local music ensemble Kotoko Brass, which includes ZUMIX teaching artists Ben and Brian Paulding!
Inspired by the traditional drum rhythms of Ghana, Kotoko Brass has created a unique, joyful, and improvisational style of West African dance music described by the Boston Globe as “propulsive, infectious party music."
The drums provide the heart and soul of Kotoko Brass — merging syncopated African percussion polyrhythms with hard-hitting dance grooves on the drum set. The horns blend traditional sounds of New Orleans with the famous West African brass band sound heard from Ghana to Nigeria, and the guitar, keys, and bass evoke classic African and Caribbean styles of highlife, Afrobeat, and reggae.
A celebratory and energetic synthesis of music, people, and cultures from around the world, Kotoko Brass features musicians from Ghana, Antigua, Japan, and the United States playing together in unity.
Free
2022/08/21 - 2022/08/21
Piers Park
95 Marginal Street, Boston, MA 02128