Crocodile River Music’s “TRINIDAD 2 TIMBUKTU” is coming to Bigelow on October 7th!
Trinidad 2 Timbuktu is an interactive musical-geography lesson for students of all ages. Expert musicians take the audience on a journey of thousands of miles and hundreds of years. It begins in Africa, with the music and rhythms that originated there in tribal and ritual drumming. From there, we travel around the world, exploring the calypso, reggae, flamenco, Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban music and dance styles that have blossomed from these African musical roots. Our musicians will introduce listeners to native instruments and the various languages that mark each genre. They will demonstrate how regional dialects have found their way into the original African language of rhythm and song. Through lecture and discussion, song and dance performance, and opportunities for audience participation, this program invites listeners to see how our very wide world is, in some ways, a very small one indeed.
This program (and many others) is made possible by the Creative Arts and Sciences Committee, funded by your PTO contributions.