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Doundoun Drum Class with Aly “Alisco” Diabate Saturday March 8th
The one, the only, Aly “Alisco” Diabate will be in town for the “Raisin’ the Roof” Benefit and Doundoun Dance Instruction DVD release party for Abdoulaye Sylla (see related post) and will be teaching...
View ArticleThank you to everyone who turned out to help raise the roof
Thanks to everyone who turned out for our “Raisin the Roof” benefit and Doundoun Dance Workout DVD party last week. A big thank you to the performers who volunteered their time and made the evening so...
View ArticleJoin Abdoulaye at World Rhythm Festival April 5th (no class at 7 Star that day)
Abdoulaye will be teaching and performing at this year’s World Rhythm Festival at Seattle Center on Saturday, April 5th. He will be teaching Doundoun Dance Saturday at 11:00, and traditional dance at...
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Join Abdoulaye at “Mini-Guinea” on Vashon Island June 6-8
Abdoulaye will be joining Guinean Malinke Drummers Bolokada Conde andMamady ‘Wadaba’ Kourouma, Flutist Mamady Mansare, and Dancers , Manimou Camara, and Sarah Lee Parker Mansare for an exciting...
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Join Abdoulaye at Camp Fareta in July
Abdoulaye will be teaching again at Camp Fareta this year. Hosted by Youssouf Koumbassa, there will be a star-studded line-up of premiere African dance and drumming teachers from Guinea, Senegal,...
View ArticleNo class on May 10th
In support of the Spirit of Africa Festival on Saturday, May 10th at Seattle Center, we are cancelling both dance and doundoun dance class that day.
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Abdoulaye now a teaching partner for Seattle Schools’ Creative Advantage
The Creative Advantage is a new district-wide initiative to address inequities in access to arts education in Seattle’s public schools and to assure that all children attending public school in the...
View ArticleAfrica Music Summit June 28
Saturday, June 28th, NDA Entertainment is hosting an Africa Music Summit featuring local and international Guinean music greats. The summit kicks off with Abdoulaye Sylla teaching a FREE dance class at...
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Abdoulaye’s July California Tour
After kicking off his California at Camp Fareta, Abdoulaye will be swinging through California, teaching in Los Angeles, San Diego, Encinitas. Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley teaching...
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Abdoulaye Announces 2015 Cultural Exchange Tour to Guinea
Good news! Abdoulaye will be hosting another fabulous cultural exchange tour to Guinea, January 16-30, 2015. Abdoulaye and his family provide a trip tailored to your interests. The trip includes...
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Abdoulaye Sylla launching Seattle Tuesday night Africn dance and doundoun...
We have found beautiful new studio space with PARKING at Seattle’s historic Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122. The studio is a block north of E. Yesler Way on the corner of Fir. Classes...
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Message From Guinea Heats Up Royal Room Friday, November 21st
Manimou Camara, Karim Koumbassa, Ousmane Sylla, and Abdoulaye Sylla from Mesage From Guinea Message from Guinea Heats Up the Royal Room: Nov. 21st 8:30 PM Start your holiday season early with Message...
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Thanksgiving Benefit Class and African Market
Give thanks this Thanksgiving that we live lives of abundance- with plentiful food, loving camaraderie, a strong community, and gifted teachers who share their culture and their hearts with us. Join...
View ArticleTuesday night class update
Abdoulaye is continuing to teach class Tuesday evenings at Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave, Seattle, 98122 through December 9th. Doundoun (Sengbe) dance is at 6:00 and traditional dance at 7:30. There...
View ArticleJe Conte and the Mali Allstars Join Message From Guinea at the Royal Room...
Je Conte and the Mali Allstars, featuring a return engagement of tama/ngoni virtuoso Djeli Mahamadou Kone, will be joining Message From Guinea on the program Friday, November 21st, at the Royal Room...
View ArticleAbdoulaye joins JeConte and the Mali Allstars at Jazz Alley, Monday, November...
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley welcomes JeConte and the Mali All-Stars for one night only! Band members are JeConte (bandleader, blues harmonica, vocals), Djeli Mahamadou Kone...
View ArticleThanksgiving donations will be tripled. Can’t come? Participate on-line
Life in Guinea is normally not easy, but as the Ebola outbreak has caused our local Guinean Artists to cancel their annual cultural tours to Africa, their families, employees and artists in Guinea are...
View ArticleEBOLA BENEFIT TONIGHT December 6th
Abdoulaye and Message From Guinea join other artists to raise funds for medical supplies and for UNICEF to combat Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Free Ebola educational session from...
View ArticleAbdoulaye teaching for Sarah Lee Monday December 22nd at Velocity
Abdoulaye Sylla will teach this Monday, December 22nd, from 8:00-9:30 pm, at Velocity Dance,1621 12TH Ave, Seattle. Come burn up your Christmas calories before you eat them.
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4Culture and Artist Trust Support Abdoulaye’s Work with Youth
A big THANK YOU to 4Culture and to Artist Trust. Each of these organizations has provided grant support to Abdoulaye in 2014. Artist Trust provided support for creating costumes for youth he works...
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