African Music Workshop with Pops Mohamed

Saturday, 11 February 2012 - 14.00h 

Pops Mohamed will discuss and demonstrate a number of African indigenous instruments, including, amongst others, the San mouth bow (!Xuma), the Mbira (thumb piano) and the Kora (a 21-stringed African lute harp).

About his “dream for the future generation”, Pops Mohamed says:

“My work as a musician is to protect and preserve indigenous African musical instruments in a modern context without bastardising their purity. I always try to approach and present these instruments in a way that my audience will appreciate and I encourage our children to make use of this beautiful heritage of ours, fusing it with modern Western instruments. That's what I would call 'harmony' and future African music in a sense. 

Pops Mohamed’s presentation will be a journey from the past and the present into the future.

For his performance, he will be joined by Chats Devroop and Paul Hanmer.