DRUMS: Basics of African Rhythm with Osei Appiagyei

Kwabena Osei Appiagyei, a native of Ghana, was surrounded by the rhythms and instruments used in ancestral music during his youth. Osei has served as a master musician and educator for the Ghana Dance Ensemble at the University of Ghana-Legon for the past 13 years. He has also acted as an instructor at the Institute of African Studies and as an educator of African percussive instruments at the School of Performing Arts in Legon. As a master drum maker, he makes and sells instruments through his wholesale/retail craft shop in Ghana. Through his work with companies in Ghana, Osei has toured all over Africa, Europe, and Asia. In 1996 he relocated to Durham, North Carolina to join Chuck Davis’ s locally based African-American Dance Ensemble.