Black History Month Performances

Cheick is a Grammy nominated musician and world-renowned griot from Mali, West Africa. Through his mastery of the ngoni, a traditional Malian instrument, Cheick captures the audience with traditional West African songs and songs brought to the United States by West African slaves. With the combination of sing-along songs, music, dance and storytelling, Cheick is sure to give the audience a true West African experience.

1:00pm

The Richmond Jazz Society will be presenting their Make Music with Me Band. This interactive program will bring jazz music and music enrichment to children by performing jazzy versions of familiar kid tunes. The band features local musicians in a lively audience participation format encouraging kids to sing along, dance and make music and rhythm with various percussion instruments.