Rhythm and Flow

Rhythm and Flow is a dream team gathering of musicians and poets; it's a combination of The World Rhythms Ensemble and The Senegal America Project. It’s a confluence of traditions and innovations in music and outspoken words. These five musicians are life-long music explorers who use their roots in Jazz, World Music, and Blues to create a signature all their own. Poets Abiodun Oyewole (of The Last Poets) and Tantra Zawadi create the perfect poetic compliment; a world class, male/female, one-two punch of word-and-flow that is rare even in these days of the rebirth of poetry.

To buy music/albums: https://tonyvacca.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-flow

Rhythm and Flow. World Music and Spoken Word with poets Abiodun Oyewole and Tantra Zawadi

The band typically includes:
Tony Vacca: balafon, gongs, percussion (www.tonyvacca.com)
Charles Langford: saxophone
Derrik Jordan: electric violin, vocals, percussion (www.derrikjordan.com/)
Jo Salins: electric bass, percussion (www.josallins.com/)
Massamba Diop: tama drum (www.tonyvacca.com/profiles/massambadiop/)
and poets Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets (www.abiodunoyewole.com)
and Tantra Zawadi (www.tantrazawadi.com).

**Attention radio/print editors and arts editors:
There are so many newsworthy stories to be told relating to these performers and
this concert.
-We’ve all got plenty of stories and a lot to say about “the arts” in the 21st century.
-Most of us travelled together to Senegal, West Africa as part of a US Embassy
grant; it was a great lesson in world-wide brother/sisterhood.
-The work we do together and separately is all about global citizenship, our
connected human legacy, and how we create and sustain equity in our
communities and in the world. We’d love to talk with you about this.