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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at La Peg
Courtesy of Mark Christman | Posted on October 28, 2016
When
Fri, February 24, 2017
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Corey Wilkes
trumpetTeodross Avery
saxophoneKahil El'Zabar
drumsEthnic Heritage Ensemble
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
Ars Nova Workshop welcomes the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble to Philadelphia in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the legendary cult film Love Jones, in which El’Zabar and Avery both appeared.
Kahil El'Zabar led the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s first performance at Child City Arts Center in Chicago in 1973, one year after he had returned from his studies at the University of Ghana. His goal was to combine concepts of African American music making with the earlier roots of traditional African music to produce something new. In his own words: "The spirit of one's approach comes first before the technical. All the facility in the world with nothing that comes from the heart doesn't make good music. The basis of the strength of any artistic evolution has come from ethnicity."...