Here information about the master of West-African classical percussion music : biography, concerts, recordings, ensemble performances, teaching, theoretical and practical courses, musical instruments, workshops, study travels to Guinea Conakry, development and children aid projects for Guinea Conakry — Contact to Mr. Alpha Oulare! *
Alpha Oulare and his ensemble Sugé of westafrican musicians from Guinea are highly interested in festival and other concert participation during the months of Spring to Autumn/Winter in year 2027, highly motivated and at their skillful best.
The experienced and competent ensemble will for sure find attraction among festival and concert guests, determine a positive event and grant remaining beautiful memories for years, by this invite all guests to join westafrican dance and chants with them.
CONTACT DATA : +491785634016 (phone-calls preferably at Central-European daytime; also WhatsApp messenger at this international dial:
i. e. Djembéfola and Ensemble and Band leader Alpha Oulare, Leipzig / Federal Republic of Germany, European Community, Earth
Alpha is a former member of the Guinean National Ballet and of numerous music ensembles for traditional westafrican percussion music and traditional dance, musical collaborator in Westafrica and Europe; musical teacher : workshops for classical percussion of the Malinke, Suso and Fula, workshops for dance…
The artist may send you wanted Tech-Rider specifications, additional press material and current as classical photographs for your usage on direct request. Please contact him directly !
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Non-toxic legal humanistic motif above, several years old now, never obsolete in meaning. Anyhow: anti-african racist hate criminals (!) shall beware of any political suspicion! …stay far from these resources.
You might rewind the video — not yet all video material of the festival has been processed and, for this, uploaded at the Y.I.L.P. International Google Inc. YouTube channel‘s or Internet Archive repositories.
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Another List of Africa Festivals and African Cultural Days held in the Federal Republic of Germany in year 2026ff. : synergetical…
You can find an updated 2026 list of African Festivals
and African Cultural Days held in the Federal Republic of Germany
* Institut Sunjata
* de famillie de Djembéfola
* Monsieur Alpha Oulare
* Leipzig/F.R.G.—Conakry/Guinée
Coordonnées officielles
actuellement acceptées
pour l'artiste international.
Currently accepted
official contact information
for the international artist.
Derzeit als gültig anerkannte
offizielle Kontaktinformationen
des internationalen Künstlers.
official Google Inc. YouTube
youtube.com/@alphaoulare
social media Facebook (messenger)
fb.com/alfa-oulare
WhatsApp / international dial
+49 178 56 34 016
Electronic mail
aoulare.art@gmail.com
Website blog
alphaoulare.art.blog
Bandcamp
alphaoulare.bandcamp.com
Nous vous souhaitons une bonne année 2026
We wish you a happy new year 2026
Wir wünschen Ihnen ein gutes neues Jahr 2026
5.II-2026
… also all band / ensemble information regarding Alpha Oulare and Sugé and the announcement of weekly Musical Lessons at the Leipzig Ludwig-Hupfeld-Center, complex C (two-hour fee 20 (twenty/zwanzig) Euros €), if not other appointment Saturday, from 2 p.m. until past 4 p.m. remain valid, hereby confirmed and the same. A warm welcome and many thanks to all new students of 2026!
As this blog alphaoulare.art.blog is currently about to become revised, it is suggested to seek for new information at Alpha’s official Google Inc.YouTube channel (click below).
( One reference to find there, at Google Inc. YouTube, was an excerpt of Djembéfola Alpha Oulare’s public performance at the 7th International Inter- and Sociocultural Africa Festival Leipzig, then still under the project name Festival of the 1000 Drums — more than drumming! and in the month of November, 2025: )
An updated list of Africa Festivals and African Cultural Days in the Federal Republic of Germany for year 2026 can be found left or here — please allowed this little redundancy! Hate criminals, hackers, intended abusers and neo-colonial usurpators stay far from these projects and all staff! Warning, criminals/perpetrators are investigated, fully traced in their activities.
Apparently this video clip with graphical animation has reached meanwhile more than two thousand calls/views:
From about one year ago, finally, these two Google Inc. Notebook L.M. Deepdive audio features having been generated automatically on the yet existing Internet sources about Alpha Oulare (you might listen below):
Further, more informative notifications shall follow during the next weeks, please be patient as readers and musical friends! Be well, meanwhile!
You may find more musical inspiration by help of the public Musical Playlists at Alpha Oulare’s Google Inc. YouTube channel, mostly West-African musical artists from Guinea and other states, they might have been new to you, if younger of ages, we suppose…
PERCUSSION-WORKSHOP IN LEIPZIG TRADITIONELLE RHYTHMEN DER MALINKE UND SUSO AUS GUINEA MIT MEISTERTROMMLER ALPHA OULARE MUSIKLEHRER UND ENSEMBLELEITER AUS GUINEA CONAKRY UND LEIPZIG AM 3.4.5. OKTOBER 2025
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Datum: Blockseminar / Wochenend-Workshop Freitag, 3. Oktober 2025, 15–18 Uhr Samstag, 4. Oktober 2025, 15–18 Uhr Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2025, 15–18 Uhr
(Mindest-Teilnehmerinnen-/-Teilnehmer-Zahl: sieben (7), maximal zehn (10) Plätze.)
Ort: Hupfeld-Center Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16, D-04178 Leipzig (Erreichbar mit S-Bahn S1, Tram 7 bis S-Bahnhof Leipzig-Leutzsch, Bus; kostenlose PKW- und Radparkplätze im Hof des Areals) Aufgang C (drittes Obergeschoss, leider noch immer keine Fahrstühle/Barrierefreiheit!)
Kursgebühr: für gesamt drei Tage freundliche 120 € (ermäßigt° nur 100 €)
Bitte reservieren Sie rechtzeitig! Die Teilnehmerinnen-/Teilnehmer-Zahl ist auf zehn (10) Personen begrenzt, mindestens sieben (7) Teilnehmerinnen/Teilnehmer sind nötig, dass der Kurs stattfinden wird.
ANKÜNDIGUNG der seltenen Gelegenheit eines Percussion-Workshops zur traditionellen westafrikanischen Musik Guineas als dreitägiges Blockseminar am Wochenende des 3., 4. und 5. Oktober 2025 im Leipziger Hupfeld-Center veranstaltet vom Meistertrommler (dem ehemaligen Mitglied des Guineischen Nationalballets, der Ensembles Konkoure Bamba, Sugé und anderer Gruppen) und Musiklehrer (das heißt auch Begründer mehrerer Percussionsschulen in Europa) Herrn Alpha Oulare (aus Conakry und Leipzig). Bitte merken Sie vor: Percussion-Workshop Blockseminar zu den traditionellen Rhythmen der Malinke und Suso für die Djembé-Trommel Spielende in Begleitung von Dununba und Sangba, gleichermaßen für alle Interessierten: Anfängerinnen, Anfänger, Fortgeschrittene, professionelle Musikerinnen und Musiker aller Musikrichtungen angelegt, bekömmlich und erfahrenswert an den Nachmittagen des ersten Oktober-Wochenendes im freundlichen Probe- und Unterrichtsraum des Musiklehrers im Leipziger Hupfeld-Center (Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16, in der Nähe vom S-Bahnhof Leipzig Leutzsch, Straßenbahnlinie 7 und Busanbindungen, mit Parkmöglichkeiten auf dem Gelände). Der Unterricht wird jeweils um 15 Uhr beginnen und an allen Tagen mindestens drei Stunden dauern mit kurzen Pausen und kleinem Imbiß. Es entfällt keine gesonderte Mietgebühr für die Nutzung der Trommeln aus Guinea / Westafrika, sondern nur eine Gesamtkursgebühr von 120 (einhundertzwanzig) Euro (€) für alle drei Tage. Dieses ebenso sittenkonforme wie rechtsgültige Angebot ist selten in dieser Art und in seinem Preis günstig, eine freundliche Geste an alle Interessierten: ° Eine zusätzliche Ermäßigung der Kursgebühr auf einhundert (100) Euro (€) wird Auszubildenden, Studentinnen und Studenten, Jugendlichen bis 18 Jahren und Seniorinnen, Senioren gewährt werden. Bitte melden Sie sich / bitte meldet Euch rechtzeitig an, da die Teilnehmerinnen-/Teilnehmerzahl begrenzt ist. Weiterführende Fragen beantwortet Herr Alpha Oulare freundlich und kompetent fernmündlich und schriftlich. Bitte zögert nicht, Euch zu melden!
[Click above for announcement and entry at www.Musik-Anzeigen.com. General information about Alpha Oulare’s musical lessons can be found here (.pdf, German language)]
Veranstalter
Musiklehrer & Musiker Herr Alpha Oulare Institut Sunjata de famille Djembéfola Monsieur Alpha Oulare
Leipzig, Kontakt: Telefon und WhatsApp unter 0178 56 34 016 oder (ein Click!) Call Alpha (tagsüber 15–19/20 Uhr), E-Mail über aoulare.art@gmail.com, social-media Facebook-Messenger fb.com/alfa-oulare oder über unser(e beiden) Kontaktformular(e) unten:
Reservierung / Buchung der Teilnahme (über Google Inc. Formular)
Alternativ auch dieses von uns erstellte Google-Inc.-Formular zur Anmeldung — Vielen Dank!
Bilder aus dem Probe- und Unterrichtsraum
Weitere Hinweise:
Postscriptum. Zum Musikunterricht bei Musiklehrer und Profimusiker Alpha Oulare allgemein könnt Ihr / können Sie nachlesen unter tinyurl.com/aoinf125 — als Hörprobe eines ganzen Musikalbums von Alphas Ensemble Sugé schaut auf archive.org/details/01-suge (Dank an das internationale Internet Archive!) oder [ao].bandcamp.com. … In Vorbereitung stehen Demo-Aufnahmen von neuen Stücken, auch einer revidierten zeitangepassten Fassung des Alakhawonmaly-Albums selbst, hat Djembéfola Alpha Oulare doch bereits Material für mindestens vier Alben im Geiste vorbereitet, musikalisch entwickelt. Nächster öffentlicher Auftritt von Sugé könnte übrigens das Chemnitzer Kukaye-Moto-Culture-Club-Afrikafestival am 16. November 2025 werden, dann Alpha Oulare & Sugé als Headliner. Vielen Dank für Euer Interesse und Eure wohlmeinende Anteilnahme! A.O.
pps. Abschließend die dringliche Bitte mit Verweis auf Alpha Oulares Hausrecht, dass Störerinnen und Störer, (Video-)Stalker/~innen und andere Nachsteller/~innen, stets auch Hacker/~innen, Hassverbrecher/~innen, bitte fern bleiben mögen. Das Blockseminar ist als friedliches und sittenkonformes Musikereignis konzipiert. Dank an Freund Till Bommer in Berlin für das Portraitfoto. Die Persönlichkeitsrechte aller Beteiligten sollen in der nicht-öffentlichen Veranstaltung nach unseren Prinzipien und Kräften gewahrt bleiben, zum Beispiel eingedenk des Rechtes am Eigenen Bild… Vielen Dank für Euer Verständnis und Eure Hilfe: Bedroher/Bedroherinnen, Stalker und ihre Gangs (!) werden örtlichen und internationalen Polizei- und anderen ermittelnden Diensten und Organisationen strafanangezeigt, Warnung! (Wie fanden (S)ie zu uns? Hoffentlich nicht als illegale Ausspäher unserer gesetzlich geschützten Tele-Kommunikation, also als Mitglieder des strafverfolgten Organisierten verfassungsfeindlichen Verbrechens!) Dieses unser Angebot ist allein friedlicher sittenkonformer ernsthafter Musikunterricht — Wir haben das Hausrecht inne! — a.o.
Zu Djembéfola Alpha Oulare
Mehr / more:
Alpha Oulare & Sugé: Alakhawonmaly!! DIEU sera avec nous!! GOD will help us!! (review & echo mix) (Berlin: Gamton 2000; Bandcamp 2022 — original version)
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MEANWHILE, you also might consult Alpha’s official YouTube channel to find more musical and informative clips related to his music, or playlists of other great musicians from Guinea and West Africa, alike further inspiration…
Oben: (Die Djembé mag Dich leiden lassen, sie eröffnet Dir aber auch ein weiteres, tieferes und neues Verständnis der uns umgebenden Natur.)
(Finally a mere experimental video advertizement, created by Google Inc. Notebook LM)
(mere in deutscher Umgangssprache, but intendedly zur Beförderung der Barrierefreiheit)
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ALSO bitte nicht verpassen: 3.4.5. Oktober 2025 in Leipzig! Rechtzeitige Anmeldung ist von Vorteil!
Vielen herzlichen Dank!
Beitrag zuletzt bearbeitet am 1.10.2025. — Kontakt. Kurzadresse: tinyurl.com/djembe1025
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Nazis, racists, anti-Africans, intended neo-colonial usurpators, censors and expropriators stay far! They are not wanted, but rejected; they will never participate.
Many thanks to Mister Manuel Augusto and his Google Inc. YouTube channel for his video clip, as to all players and to the friendly audience at the Leipzig inner city on one afternoon during the annual Leipzig city feast Leipziger Stadtfest 2024 having taken place during the weekend of May 31st to June 2nd. The jam session had been a spontaneous offer to the Leipzig community, guests and tourists welcomed the concert performance…
( Above: Salif Keïta and Manfila Kanté, 1970-s year )
By occasion and for educational purposes only, we allow us to provide the following musical reference to the work of Salif Keïta from Mali and France. ›My heart cries when I hear this music, for it is the music of my youth.‹ (Alpha Oulare)…
Above: Google Inc. YouTube playlist with compiled tracks of Salif Keïta’s discography.
☂ BITTE #helfen Sie diesen #Kindern in Guinea° Conakry ! Please #help these #children in Guinea° Conakry ! S’il vous plaît, #aidez ces #enfants en Guinée° Conakry !
Please read the sources below about the situation of children in Guinea (Conakry)°. You can also make donations for children in need at concerts, workshops and in Alpha Oulare classes. All donations are reliably earmarked and promptly transferred to Guinea by bank transfer: Alpha Oulare currently transfers a monthly aid amount to Guinea to help finance voluntary school lessons for children in the community of Coyah who would otherwise have no education. Up to now, a teacher has been teaching children in Coyah outdoors. As there is no school building, classes are mostly cancelled during the rainy season. Together with responsible local contacts, Alpha Oulare is therefore looking for funding to purchase a school site and build a simple building that meets all the requirements of a school facility. This requires funds in the five-digit range, but less than the equivalent of 20.000 euros. Mr. Oulare is therefore considering founding a support association. How can the sum for the initial purchase of the site and subsequent construction costs be raised? Who is in a position to help charitable causes and invest in concrete development aid?
Bitte lesen Sie / bitte lest in den unten angegebenen Quellen zur Situation von Kindern in Guinea (Conakry)°. Spenden für Kinder in Not zu leisten, ist Ihnen und Euch auch auf Konzerten, in Workshops und im Unterricht von Alpha Oulare möglich. Alle gespendeten Beträge werden verlässlich zweckbestimmt und zeitnah nach Guinea per Bankanweisung transferiert: Gegenwärtig überweist Alpha Oulare monatlich einen Hilfe-Betrag nach Guinea, um ehrenamtlichen Schulunterricht für sonst ausbildungslose Kinder in der Gemeinde Coyah mitzufinanzieren. Bisher unter freiem Himmel unterrichtet ein Lehrer Kinder in Coyah. Da ein Schulgebäude fehlt, fällt der Unterricht während der Regenzeit im Jahr hauptsächlich aus. Gemeinsam mit verantwortlichen Kontaktpersonen vor Ort sucht Alpha Oulare daher Förderung für den Erwerb eines Schulgrundstückes und den Bau eines einfachen aber allen Ansprüchen einer Schuleinrichtung genügenden Gebäudes. Dieses erfordert Mittel im fünfstelligen Bereich, aber unter umgerechnet 20 000 Euro. Herr Oulare erwägt deshalb die Gründung eines Fördervereines. Wie kann die Summe für zunächst Grundstückskauf und anschließende Baukosten realisiert werden? Wer ist in der Lage gemeinnützig zu helfen, in konkrete Entwicklungshilfe zu investieren?
Veuillez lire / veuillez vous référer aux sources ci-dessous concernant la situation des enfants en Guinée (Conakry)°. Vous pouvez également faire des dons pour les enfants dans le besoin lors de concerts, d’ateliers et dans les classes d’Alpha Oulare. Tous les montants donnés sont affectés de manière fiable et rapidement transférés en Guinée par virement bancaire : Alpha Oulare transfère actuellement un montant d’aide mensuel à la Guinée afin d’aider à financer des cours volontaires pour les enfants autrement sans instruction de la communauté de Coyah. Jusqu’à présent, un enseignant enseigne en plein air aux enfants de Coyah. Comme il n’y a pas de bâtiment scolaire, les cours sont principalement annulés pendant la saison des pluies. En collaboration avec des interlocuteurs responsables sur place, Alpha Oulare recherche donc un financement pour l’achat d’un terrain scolaire et la construction d’un bâtiment simple répondant à toutes les exigences d’une installation scolaire. Cela nécessite des fonds à cinq chiffres, mais inférieurs à l’équivalent de 20 000 euros. M. Oulare réfléchit donc à créer une association de soutien. Comment peut-on réaliser le montant de l’achat initial du terrain et les coûts de construction ultérieurs ? Qui peut aider les organisations à but non lucratif et investir dans une aide au développement spécifique ?
This is soon / dieses ist schon bald! Wait for more detailled concert announcement and festival program line-up information in time, please… Many thanks for your friendship, support and kind consideration!
by the way:
Tune into the new festival season of 2023 — be with us, join the festivities and meetings!
Again as Educational content here some media references that are connected with Alpha Oulare’s personal and collective biographies:
Les Ballets Africains at Google Inc. YouTube
(Google Inc. YouTube videos on Les Ballets Africans — leave this webpage to watch externally partial videos that cannot be embedded here! Many thanks to all contributors,)
(LES BALLETS AFRICAINS DE KEITA FODEBA, Vol. 2 avec KENTE FACELLI · DIABATE DAOUDA · DIELI MAGAN · FANTA DIALI · FANTA KAMISSAKO · KANTE MANFILA · HAWA · DARIUS ALFREDINE · DIELIBAKARI SISSOKO et l’accompagnement vocal des BALLETS AFRICAINS. Disques Vogue 1960)
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Current course announcements, invitations and offers, October 2022 to January 2023
Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde, auch an Euch diese öffentliche dringende Anzeige / Bitte zeigt sie weiter:
RELEVANT wöchentlich sowie (Kartenvorverkauf jetzt, Teilnahme begrenzt!) schon im Januar oder (eine freie oder Ferien-Reise zu planen!) Frühjahr/Herbst 2023; ansonsten regelmäßige Konzerte & live-Events (auch Ensembles buchbar, siehe Kontaktdaten unten), seriöse Angebote 2022/2023 :: :: DJEMBÉ WESTAFRIKANISCHE TRADITIONELLE PERCUSSION, MUSIK DER MALINKÈ, SUSO UND FULA / NEUE EINFLÜSSE IM SPIEL UND FÜR KOMPOSITION UND AUFFÜHRUNG / INSPIRATION UND FORTBILDUNG — UNTERRICHT BEI MEISTERTROMMLER ALPHA OULARE (GUINEA CONAKRY / LEIPZIG) IN LEIPZIG 2022, 2023 UND DARÜBER HINAUS! BITTE LEST: …auch in deutscher Sprache und an Leipziger und überregionale Leserinnen und Leser nun alles bisher über Alpha Oulares Unterricht, seine Kurse, Workshops und musikalische Händlerangebote auf seiner Website Mitgeteilte: Falls möglich empfehlt auch als Information weiter! Die Percussion/Djembé-Kurse sind genreübergreifend interessant und wertvoll für andere Instrumentalistinnen und Instrumentalisten, Komponistinnen und Komponisten, Arrangeurinnen und Arrangeuren, musikalische Laien, Künstlerinnen und Künstlern an sich… * INHALT: 1) Euer dreitägiger Wochenendkurs = Seminar Djembé und Percussion incl. westafrikanischer Imbiß im Januar 2023 in Leipzig: preiswert (3 x 3½h+Pause+Imbiss) für 80€ (Kartenvorverkauf, Geschenkidee!) · 2) Kalender der laufenden Kurse in Leipzig · 3a) Djembé- und Percussion-Unterricht für Erwachsene und Jugendliche in Leipzig (wöchentlich samstags) · 3b) Professioneller und freundlicher Trommel-/Musik-Unterricht für Kinder in Leipzig (wöchentlich einstündig sonntags) · 4) Kurzer Dank und Hinweise (neuen Schülern im September 2022) · 5) Drei kurze Gedanken zu Djembé/Musik · 6) Hochwertige afrikanische Musikinstrumente aus Guinea zum Verkauf – in dieser Qualität und Fertigung hier nur über Alpha Oulare · 7) Einladung zur musikalischen Reise nach Guinea im Frühjahr oder Herbst 2023: Conakry, Isle of Roume, Workshops und mehr wie in früheren Jahren [ siehe https://alphaoulare.art.blog/kurse ]. * Diese Einladungen und Ankündigungen ergehen an Euch als sehr dringend! Neuer Kontakt wird angeboten… Vielen Dank für Eure Hilfe, Vermittlung, Euer wohlmeinendes Interesse und Eure langjährige tiefe Freundschaft und Sympathie!
( Kontakt zum Künstler und Lehrer: hier Facebook/-Messenger fb.com/alfa.oulare / Telefon und WhatsApp-Messenger tagsüber, vorzugsweise Nachmittag bis früher Abend tel:01785634016 (w-afr., dt., en., esp., frz., it., pt., u. a. Sprachen mehr) / E-Mail mailto:aoulare.art@gmail.com — alle Kontaktdaten und weitere Auskünfte, auch Klänge und Bilder, Anregungen und Hintergründe auf seiner Website https://alphaoulare.art.blog. )
‹ Quand je dors, le Djembé est dans mes rêves, le Djembé est alors dans mon sang, je continuerai à jouer jusqu’à la fin de ma vie. › (A. Ou.)
The following LIST represents no discography, but refers to a short article posted here yet weeks ago, then it remained to be still incomplete; it took some time but actually no efforts until we added —for this occasion— a searchable list on the artist and album names with links to the Google Inc. YouTube and Discography portal search engines — maybe helpful to discover new or known musical tracks… A FURTHER LEGAL EDUCATIONAL RESSOURCE FOR FRIENDS OF AFRICAN MUSIC:
// WEST-AFRICAN MUSICAL REFERENCE ALBUMS
// OF TRADITIONAL PERCUSSION MUSIC:
// for the references to these musical albums from West Africa,
// here extracted for your further recherches…
// Please study the original electronic ressource in detail.
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Postscriptum / reminder: Please do not forget Alpha Oulare’s Percussion Course dates and announcements, invitations and mercatory offers. These are crucial.
Übersetzen ins Deutsche? These friendly and useful children’s lessons are held successfully yet for many years, beside the main elder drumming courses and African dance workshops:
Event organized by Alpha Oulare Sundays 3–4 p.m. Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16, 04178 Leipzig, Germany Running time:1 hour Public Every Sunday afternoon drumming lessons for children led by master drummer Alpha Oulare. Registration & further information: Telephone Alpha Oulares 0178-5634016 (also WhatsApp)
At the age of five he learned to play the drums in the national ballet in Guinea, and later he became one of the best percussionists in his country. Since 1998 he has enriched the Afro music scene in Germany. He worked as a musician and teacher in Berlin, Stuttgart and since 2016 also in Leipzig. Alpha Oulare is married husband and has several own children.
(Hear sounds from the album »Alakhawonmaly!! DIEU sera avec nous!! GOD will help us« by Alpha Oulare & Sugé — to be found here)
Form of teaching:
in the group
instruments of different sizes can be provided for the lesson depending on the age of the child, or you can bring your own drum
together with the children, the first rhythms are worked out step by step and practiced in the group
the children are treated with great sensitivity and the individual learning process is accompanied
different levels and previous experiences are included and promoted in the lessons
one-to-one lessons are of course also possible by prior arrangement, or sharing the group depending on the number of participants
other course dates and times on request
the lessons take place taking into account the current health situation
Venue: Hupfeldcenter, Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16, 04178 Leipzig: Meeting point in the courtyard, staircase C — we go to the room together.
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Pour les enfants — hear also some West-African children’s songs, animation for young persons: Comptines d’Afrique
[These are Nursery Rhymes from Africa: »Welcome to the number-one YouTube channel of animated African nursery rhymes — Chain that connects and transmits — Welcoming channel where we play, cook, dance, sing, clap our hands and invent the future — Channel that puts its values into practice, benevolence, empathy, education — Welcome to COMPTINES D’AFRIQUE, African children’s songs channel — Best way for our children to become world citizens« (ibid.)] (Clickon the above images (screenshot) to find more videos of different length and theme. — Listeners and viewers of any age and early readers might learn the French language and African languages by this too. The music appears to be very tasteful. But be careful about television and new media in general, regarding the child’s mental health and natural learning, abilities!)
Of course more* electronic or printed/scanned texts can be found than this one (by Kikoangoma — Danza y Musica Africana), mentioning Alpha Oulare & Sugé’sdebut album as musical reference for Guinean traditional Dances and Rhythms preserved; this ressource has been found by occasion recently… [Please click (what a word!) on the before currently red-colour hyperlinks!]
Technical issue: Using the Google Inc. Internet search
Postscriptum: * common sense (to some), that you also may try the Google Inc. Internet search to find similar Blog systems that provide information, here about West-African Percussion (click link!) — Many thanks to all contributors, all good wishes to them… (We feel links like these might be helpful to Internet readers/surfers, by this creating structures more toward a true Hypertext in global result).
(Another click above to find more images and their sources)
Side note: WordPress content management system (CMS)
(Surface of the WordPress Reader section)
Maybe consider also, to create an own WordPress account, or, to install as well the WordPress application also for mobile devices, this, even if it was only as reader of existing blogs, by this receiving the opportunity to submit comments, submit own searches, receive update/news notifications and more…
(Pardon us…)
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As final contemplation watch / listen to Mamady Keïta (1950–2021): Rhythmes Traditionels di Mandingue (Traditional Mandinke Rhythms) (Beginner—Intermediate—Advanced) (200X)
We will often return to this authority, for he was one of Alpha Oulare’s important teachers and it appears to be both necessary and helpful to understand these influences of Alpha’s own music and musical teaching theory and practice.
{Mamady Keïta teaches Traditional DjembeBeginner Level. This video demonstration having been made »available to the general public so everyone searching to learn djembe from a true djembe master can have access to it. For more information about learning traditional djembe and dunun please visit [Mamady Keïta’s former] school’s website www.ttmda.com [Tam Tam Mandingue Djembé Academy]« (Mamady Keïta’s and heirs’ Google Inc. YouTube channel). May he rest in peace / may he not become forgotten! The tutorial contains these rhythms: Fankani (at 11’10”), Djabgbe (19’10”), Soli-rapide (26’50”), Kuku (33’25”), Mendiani (39’50”), Djaa (44’45”) and Moribayassa (at 50’30” — many thanks so to Alejandro S. for providing this first tracklist).} — You may try to download this video’s subtitles in several languages here.
[Mamady Keïta teaches Traditional Djembe Intermediate Level (same source: Mamady Keïta’s and his heirs’ official Google Inc. YouTube channel). Content: Background on the djembe, Greeting (at 3’11”), The instruments (4’26”); Kassa (5’30”): Dununs (5’58”), Djembé 1 and 2 (8’02”), Kassa ensemble (9’32”); Senefoli (11’50”): Dununs (12’19”), Djembé 1 and 2 (15’30”), Senefoli ensemble (16’27”); Sofa (18’35”): Dununs (19’10”), Djembé 1 and 2 (20’52”), Sofa ensemble (21’58”); Denadon (24’10”): Dununs (24’36”), Djembé 1 and 2 (26’09”), Denadon ensemble (27’04”); Djansa et solo (30’30”): Dununs (31’02”), Djembé 1 and 2 (33’08”), solo original (34’15”), Djansa ensemble (36’17”), Djansa solo (37’40”): Garangedon et solo (40’01”): Dununs (40’33”), Djembé 1 and 2 (42’19”), solo original (43’46”), Garangedon ensemble (45’30”), Garangedon solo (47’06”); Mendiani solo (49’20”): solo original (49’47”), Mendiani solo (51’30”); Soli-rapide solo (52’55”): Solo original (53’24”), Soli-rapide solo (55’28”); Farewell (at 57’06”) — thanks to Percussionworld for this more detailed track list.] — This video does not provide sub-titles.
[Mamady Keïta teaches Traditional Djembe Advanced Level (same source: Mamady Keïta’s and his heirs’ official Google Inc. YouTube channel). Content: Dunungbe (at 4’20”), Soliwoulen (10’40”), Tiriba (15’50”), Kalikambe (20’30”), N´goron (25’25”), Soko (31’40”), Koredjuga solo (36’30”) and Soboninkun (at 44’40”) — again thanks to Alejandro S. for providing a tracklist.] — Try to download the video’s subtitles here.
»We don’t just play the djembe to play a drum. We play the djembe to tell a story. Every rhythm has its story. It’s not enough to be technically good, but knowing the history of the rhythms you’re playing is very important. Where I come from, these stories are what we pass on from generation to generation. In the Manding tradition, we learn orally. We don’t write anything down. So we must memorize the rhythms and follow the way our Master teacher. A video can never replace a teacher. It is a tool to help students learn. It’s more of a key that helps students open the door to learning.«
THIS IN SHORT: We thank all new musical students and friends that joined Alpha Oulare’s Djembé lessons on this Saturday, August, the 20st, 2022, for the first time: what mighty sound yet, when playing together in group. Now about three female and four male drum students might hopefully attend the weekly two-hour lesson regularly — — yet having been announced, but not as yet concrete in time: this Autumn’s two-day weekend workshop later in the year… Students and all interested musicians shall receive the opportunity to learn and perform special own compositions by Alpha Oulare then. Might the event become sound-recorded?
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CLICK BELOW TO CONNECT TO THE BANDCAMP PORTAL OF ALPHA OULARE. You will find the before entrance prices for the year 2000 Sugé Album now reduced to common standard. The opening track SUGÉ offered here for only 80 euro-cents. / Page description and colours have changed…
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Two Google Inc. YouTube videos from the Berlin Carneval of Cultures / Karneval der Kulturen 1996ff. (2007 and 2013)
(2007 Berlin Carneval of Cultures with drum players from Guinea)
(Six years later, in 2013, again drummers from Guinea)
Alpha Oulare himself … participated at the cultural festival in before years as member of La Fôret Sacrée, Konkobá, Sugé [links from Alpha’s newly updated Discographies profile] and as solo performer respective in free communion with other musicians and dancers, guests of the Carneval.
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KONKOBA. By occasion another search at the SoundCloud music portal resulting in songs named Konkoba (embedding here at first Mamady Keïta, you should find also pieces by Tourmani Diabaté, Cissoko System and maybe more artists from West Africa and beyond):
»Liebe Freunde der afrikanischen Musik!!! Wir starten wieder durch und hoffen, ihr habt genauso viel Lust wie wir!!! Unter Beachtung der aktuellen Coronaregelungen können wir wieder unterrichten. Folgende Kurse bieten wir für euch an:
»Djembe für Erwachsene: Samstag 16–18 Uhr
»Afrotanz : Sonntag 15–17 Uhr
»NEU!!!! Djembe für Kinder: Sonntag 14–15 Uhr (ab 4 Jahre)
»Weitere Termine und Gruppen auf Anfrage!
»Ort: Ludwig-Hupfeldstr.16 / Leipzig
»Wer kann kommen? Alle die Spaß an westafrikanischen Rhythmen haben, diese gern erlernen möchten, sich auspowern oder einfach Freude am Musizieren verspüren möchten! Es ist für jeden was dabei: schaut vorbei und probiert es aus – wir freuen uns auf euch!« (Facebook, Mai 2021)
Alpha Oulare is also, together with ensemble founder Sam Jarju (kora, voice) and Diehi Tanguy Franck (percussions), member and current master djembé player and choir singer of the West-African ensemble Rootsmanding, that had been founded in Dresden in 2004 (then still without Alpha and Frankie), meanwhile based at Leipzig / Germany (residence of all three musicians)
»The Rootsmanding drum, dance and song group are five to eight artists from Africa. Their musical roots lie in playing the traditional rhythms and melodies of West Africa. The most important instrument of the group is the kora (African harp lute), accompanied by drums and dance.« (Ensemble leader Sam Jarju.)
Following just three videos / excerpts from Rootsmanding performances in town, the Hint to an unkown album and, more to expect, current tour and concert dates:
(Thanks to Mrs. Claudia Kästner.)
(Still available, seldom found rare debut by Rootsmanding. New albums have been recorded yet, offers from musical publishers are welcome to the Roots- and Reggae Manding founder and producer Mister Sam Jarju.)
(This Summer’s agenda… Rootsmanding attending concerts at several Africa festivals in german towns.)
Without further annotations, but referring to international review and critics, we allow us here to include the truely enlightening documentary films by M. Laurent Chevalier »Djembefola« (1991) and »Mögöbalu« (1998) on the Guinean Master Drummer legend Mister Mamady Keïta (August 1950 – June 21st, 2021) — May he rest in Peace! In fact Alpha Oulare used to be student of Mamady Keita in his youth. We hope to be able by this reference to provoke deeper interest and understanding of these West-African Musical Arts and Culture as well as thanking Alpha Oulare’s former teacher Mister Mamady Keïta (The King).
FRENCH MUSIC DOCUMENTARY (translated subtitles available)
»I left my village Balandugu when I was 12 years old and returned after 26 years. This documentary was filmed when I make the trip back to Balandugu. I am sharinging it now with the world in hope that this inspires you and gives you the strength you need to continue your passion in this life.« (From the official Google Inc. YouTube channel° of Mamady Keïta and heirs — might he be remembered for long times…)
(° Postscriptum 19.10.2024: Google Inc. YouTube video references updated; now from two different sources, as the original Youtube film had disappeared / been removed(?). Please let us know future changes in this!)
MUSIC ALBUM: One by him is Mamady Keïta & Sewa Kan: Hakili (2011, BandCamp-distributed):
»To celebrate 50 years of his musical year, master percussionist Mamady Keïta embarked on a European tour with an expanded line-up his group Sewa Kan, adding balafon, kora and saxophone to the percussive core. The group played to tens of thousands across nine countries during summer 2009 and this CD and DVD provide an outstanding souvenir. The title Hakili, meaning good spirit, proves apt. Mamady’s career started when he was chosen, aged just 14, to join the newly formed National Ballet of Guinea — the major state-sponsored cultural troupe in the country. He went on to become Artistic Director and stayed with the Ballet for 20 years. He then moved to Belgium and formed Sewa Kan shortly after. His time is now spent teaching and playing from his new base in the USA. He has released nine albums with his group and several instructional DVDs. The CD (70 mins) was recorded during the tour; the DVD (100 mins) at the Jazz Sous Les Pommiers festival in France.
Musicians : – MAMADY KEÏTA : djembe solo, djembe bass, vocals & band leader – BABARA BANGOURA : djembe, backing vocals – SOULEYMANE “COBRA” CAMARA : djembe, kenkeni & kora – BABA TOURE : djembe, calabash, gongoma – MONETTE KEÏTA : kenkeni, djembe – CECE KOLY : sangban – YOUSSOUF TRAORE : dunumba – MAMA ADAMA CAMARA : dance & backing vocals – BEBEY YOULA : dance & lead vocals – KANDET DIOUBATE : dance & lead vocals – PRINCE DIABATE : kora & vocals – DJELIMADY KOUYATE : balafon – MANU HERMIA : flute & saxophone«.
(Annotation from the Discographies service, there more releases enlisted — please support the Artists!)
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