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Albino Mbie Quartet at The Drake

Courtesy of Jim Neill | Posted on July 15, 2022

Where

The Drake
44 N Pleasant St
Amherst, MA
Map

Albino Mbie Quartet at The Drake

When

Thu, August 25, 2022
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Albino Mbie
guitar

About

door 6PM / show 7PM

Albino Mbie, at age sixteen, built his first guitar out of a 5-liter can of oil, scrap wood, and strings made out of electrical cords. In Mozambique’s capital city of Maputo, folks get resourceful. In 2009 he emigrated to the US on one of the first full scholarships from the African Scholars program awarded by the Berklee College of Music.
At Berklee, he participated in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, which is directed by Danilo Perez and the residency teachers, including Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, and Terri Lyne Carrington. The Institute emphasizes an artist’s original vision in jazz and has helped Mbie find his own unique voice in the art form. With the help of his mentors, Richard Bona and Lionel Loueke, he began to bridge his former life in Mozambique with new pathways in the US....

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