Arts & Entertainment
VIDEOS & SLIDESHOW: Framingham Residents Join 'World Rhythms' Band
Music connected senior citizens, parents and children with a musician and a West African dancer Wednesday afternoon at Wilson Elementary.
Music can connect people.
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, musician Tony Vacca and dancer Abdou Sarr used their Senegal-America Project to connect senior citizens, parents and children together via World Rhythms.
The free event was presented by the Framingham Public Library at Wilson Elementary School.
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Not only did Vacca pound our beats, but he invited audience members to be a part of the band.
The goal of the Senegal-America project is to ”bring people together in meaningful collaborations that create transformational responses to what we share of common issues and common ground.”
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Yesterday, music and West African beats brought the group together.
To view a video clip of Sarr and Vacca, click here.
To view a video clip of Framingham residents in the band, click here.
To view a slideshow of photos from yesterday’s event, click here.
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PHOTO CREDIT: Susan Petroni
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