If you’re a fan of diverse sounds, Evergreen Cultural Centre will hit all the right notes for music lovers this weekend.
Tonight (Friday) at 7 p.m., the traditional songs from Ghana, in West Africa, will be performed by Adanu Habobo, a Vancouver-based group formed eight years ago by Kofi Gbolonyo and Curtis Andrews, and featuring guest musicians and dancers Awal Alhassan and Kurai Mubaiwa.
Its catalogue includes the famous Ghanaian songs Atsiagbekor, Kpanlogo, Hatsiatsia and Fume Fume.
The high-energy performance will contrast with Saturday’s concert at 8 p.m. by the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble (PSWE), a 45-member band that calls the Coquitlam venue home.
Under the direction of David Branter, PSWE will play compositions based on the theme of outer space.
And on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. comes the folk music composer and banjo player Jayme Stone, who is on a winter tour of B.C. and Alberta to promote his latest album, Folklife, as well as new songs for his experimental art-pop CD that’s due out soon.
Stone’s CD, The Utmost, took the 2008 Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year; the following year, he won the Juno for World Music Album of the Year, with Mansa Sissoko, for Africa to Appalachia. His third album, Room of Wonders, garnered a 2011 Canadian Folk Music Award for Instrumental Artist of the Year.
For tickets to any of the three concerts, call the Evergreen box office at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
