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Sekere Live with Mama Binta Nia

Wed, August 21, 2019 12:30 P.M.
Overbrook Park Library

Join us for a live performance, activity, and discussion.

The sekere, from Yoruba, is a West African percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering
the gourd. The instrument is common in West African and Latin American folkloric traditions as well as some of the popular music styles

Overbrook Park Library
7422 Haverford Avenue (Haverford Ave. & Woodbine St.)
Philadelphia, PA 19151-2995
215-685-0182

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