Performances

Solo performances for Schools, Libraries, Community Centers, and Universities and Co-operate Conferences

Braima uses an array of musical instruments in his solo performance for hands-on audience participation. African musical instruments such as Djembe drum, dundun, kinkine, shegureh (shekere), Kilen (log drum), dono (talking) drum are all a part of Braima's high energy performance. He uses sing-a-long songs, calls and responses and questions and answers to keep his audience engaged.

Travel to West Africa…
Without leaving your classroom with storyteller and drummer Braima Moiwai, as your tour guide!

Braima shares folktales, hands-on drumming, sing-alongs, beautiful color slides and interactive games while relating his childhood stories growing up on a rice farm in rural Sierra Leone. By the end of his visit, participants would have gained a better understanding of history, music, and daily life of West African culture

Stories and Music

Do you want to listen to some stories? Learn sing-alongs, call, phrases in mende language and call & response from Sierra Leone. Listen to how a drum beat brings a story alive as Braima tells original stories from his gandma and the village griot.
Stories such as: the five baby birds in pursuit of their mother. Who is the strongest animal on land? The little boy Oboli went to save the crocodiles. Once lived a man by the name of Time etc

Workshops

Drumming circle workshop- hands-on drumming technique using Djembe, dun dun, kilen and agofo (bell)

Interactive games

· akara- clapping and stepping to the drum beat
· jiggy-jiggy-skima- wiggle-wiggle-wiggle, stop, clap and show one hand
· I have a dog- circle challenge game
· Lay lay vaa- circle dance in which students take turns in the center