Obo Addy
The Traditional Percussion Instruments of Ghana
World Clinic
Saturday, 3:00 p.m.

Master drummer and composer Obo Addy is a repository of Ghanaian music history. He has played in Europe, Australia, America, and the Orient and has been performing in colleges, universities, and festivals in the United States since the 1970s.  In 1972, he performed at the Olympics in Munich and in 1974 spent three months touring Aboriginal settlements in Australia. He received a Governor’s Award for the Arts in Oregon and a Master’s Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission in 1993. In 1996, Obo received the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor given to traditional artists in the U.S. Obo also writes music for his African jazz band, Kukrudu, and has written orchestral pieces for The Kronos Quartet, The Chintimini Music Festival, The Third Angle New Music Ensemble, and modern dancer Mary Osland. Obo teaches at Lewis and Clark College in Portland and conducts a one-month residency at Williams College in Massachusetts every year.

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