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Voyagers CD release concert

  • Soapbox Gallery 636 Dean Street Brooklyn, NY, 11238 United States (map)

Banning Eyre is an author, guitarist, radio producer, and Senior Producer for the Peabody Award-winning public radio series Afropop Worldwide. He has been researching and learning African guitar styles for over 35 years, including a seven-month apprenticeship with Malian guitar master Djelimady Tounkara. Eyre has developed an original composition and performance style that incorporates traditions from Mali, Congo, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and beyond, along with his own background in American finger style guitar. He performs with the trio Voyagers, the band Timbila, and with various musicians playing African music in New York City.

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