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Bernard Woma
Bernard Woma is a master of the gyil, a complex and beautiful xylophone that is the national instrument of the Dagara, Lobi, Birifor, and Sissala peoples of Ghana and Burkina Faso. The gyil is made from fourteen slats of fire-dried hardwood that are suspended with leather cords on a frame of gourds (calabash) resonators. A spider egg sack casing is stretched over one or more holes in each gourd, giving the instrument its distinctive buzzing sound. For centuries, Dagara gyil players have developed an intricate polyphonic style that It includes both sacred compositions for festivals, weddings, funerals, and other ceremonies and secular Bewaa music for dancing and entertainment and is some of the most rhythmically complex music ever recorded.
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LocationCalvary United Methodist Church
48th and Baltimore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19143
United States
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