![Master Drummer Sowah Mensah performs a free concert at Rockport Music's Shalin Liu Center for Performing Arts Master Drummer Sowah Mensah performs a free concert at Rockport Music's Shalin Liu Center for Performing Arts](https://northshorekid.com/sites/default/files/styles/post_photo/public/events/master_drummer_sowah_mensah.jpg?itok=gsZRxht1)
Sowah Mensah is an ethnomusicologist, composer and a “Master Drummer” from Ghana, West Africa. Sowah has taught music in both Ghana and Nigeria and is currently a music professor at both Macalester College, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN where he also directs each school’s African Music Ensemble. In addition, he is currently a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT and directs the African Music Ensemble at the University of Minnesota. Sowah is the director of Sankofa, a Ghanaian Folklore and Dance Ensemble in the Twin Cities and a member of Speaking in Tongues, a four-piece group based out of the Twin Cities that uses two percussionists, a bassist and a Chinese pipa player. Free, no tickets required.
Voices of the Community | Sowah Mensah