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Mamadou Diabate isn’t just an award-winning virtuoso on the xylophone-like balafon: he also is a West African cultural ambassador to the world. Among Diabate’s Sambla people in Burkina Faso, each village, family and profession have their own piece of music, which functions like a coat of arms. Music is composed for every important occasion, and communal work is accompanied by music—centering on deftly ornamented virtuoso balafon solos. In Percussion Mania, Mamadou and brother Seydou Diabate hold forth on balafon and other instruments along with their five-member band (drums, flute, kora, ngoni and electric bass). The rhythms of this performance are fast-paced, uplifting and fun, expanding students’ listening skills and sparking conversations about language and how we communicate. A unique opportunity to deepen learning around African culture, world music, contemporary world history, language arts, collaboration and communication.