Midday Muse: Mbira: Music of the Spirits of Zimbabwe: Fraderck Mujuru with Erica Azim

Erica Azim

10/19/2016

12:30 PM

Jewett Auditorium

Zimbabwean master musician Fradreck Mujuru is joined by Erica Azim in playing the healing music of the mbira, the instrument used by the Shona to connect the living with the ancestors. Born to the largest extended family of mbira players in Zimbabwe, Mujuru has played mbira since the age of eight, and is now known internationally as an outstanding performer, teacher, and instrument maker, while continuing to play in ceremonies for the ancestors at home. Azim is America’s leading proponent
of the Shona mbira tradition, and has toured with various Shona mbira masters and taught thousands of Americans to play mbira and support the tradition in Zimbabwe.

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