African drum master Yacub Addy and Odadaa! while tracking their upcoming release.
Members of Odadaa! at Cotton Hill Studios, Inc. singing vocal overdubs.
Ace Parkhurst, engineer and Amina Addy, producer at Cotton Hill Studios, Inc. as they listen back to the music of Odadaa!
Ace Parkhurst, engineer and Yacub Addy, african drum master and leader of Odadaa!
A message from Amina Addy:
Exciting News – African drum master Yacub Addy’s new CD project on USA Project Site
I’m pleased to announce that African drum master and 2010 NEA National Heritage Fellowship awardee Yacub Addy has been selected to participate in a new online community of America’s finest artists called USA Projects.
Yacub Addy’s Profile and Showcase are already up, and he’s just launched a new project called Cashew Blue. It’s the title of a beautiful new CD he’s recording with his exceptional Ghanaian ensemble Odadaa!. The album concentrates on creative compositions that keep the power of old traditional rhythms alive in fresh new pieces.
Watch the video preview and check out the project here: http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/cashew_blue
Great perks are available to anyone who supports Yacub Addy in this effort, and if you can’t support the project financially, we would appreciate if you helped spread the word about it to friends and associates who may be in a position to contribute. All donations are tax deductible.
USA Projects is a community where America’s finest artists and those that love and support them can share their latest work, enter into a dialog with each other, and make direct donations to new projects created by each artist. This is the first website to our knowledge that allows direct public donations between art patrons and accredited artists on the internet. http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/
Note: USA Artists collects promised donations when and if the donation total is reached. It then gives the funds to the artist to complete the contracted project in exactly the same way as a grant funder does. The artist is legally responsible under strict guidelines to do the project as stated, to make regular progress and final financial reports, and to open their books for review by USA Artists auditors.
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