Publications
Books
Spring 2018 * Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
Forthcoming * Power Relations in Court Song: Musical Meaning and Political Life in Uganda. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
Under review * Becoming and Being a King’s Performer: Biographies of the Last Court Musicians of Buganda. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
In Progress * Towards a Decolonial Pedagogy: Undergraduate Perspectives on Learning in an African Music and Dance Performance Course. Manuscript to be submitted to Routledge.
Online Courses
Spring 2022. * “Popular Music from Africa: Part 2.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
Spring 2022. * “Popular Music from Africa: art 1.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
Fall 2021. * “Traditional Music from Africa: Part 2.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
Fall 2021. * “Traditional Music from Africa: Part 1.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
Film
2020 Fall * Drum Making as a Way of Life. Documentary film, 50 Minutes, and Luganda with English Subtitles. New York, NY: Alexander Street Press.
Journal Articles
2014 * “Could Afrigo’s Semadongo be Uganda’s Zilizopendwa?” In Zili(zo)pendwa: Dance Music and Nostalgia in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Edited by Frank Gunderson. Special Issue of World of Music (new series), 2014: 3(1).
2015 * “Middlebury College 2013-14 John Hamilton Fulton Lecture in the Liberal Arts: A Public Conversation with Angelique Kidjo, conducted and transcribed by Damascus Kafumbe,” African Music 9(4):36-53.
In progress * “Court Song, Lyrical Meaning, and Power Relations in Uganda.” Manuscript to be submitted to Ethnomusicology.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming * “Drum Making as a Way of Life in South-Central Uganda: A Filmic Approach.” In Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South. Edited by Christopher Ballengee. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
In progress * “Punishment and Forgiveness: Justice in Kiganda Court Song.” In Ubuntu: A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice. Edited by Paul Nnodim and Austin Okigbo. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.
Encyclopedia Entries
Forthcoming * “East and Central African Music.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 364-365. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
Forthcoming * “West and Southern African Music.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 366-367. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
Forthcoming * “Rebel Music.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 332-333. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
Forthcoming * “African Instruments.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 366-367. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
Forthcoming * “Time for Change.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 332-333. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
Book Reviews
2013 * Ethnomusicology in East: Africa Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond. Edited by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza and Thomas Solomon. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2013: 45.
2014 * West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective. George Worlasi Kwasi Dor. African Music 9(4):152-154.
Multimedia Review
- * “Multimedia Project Review: GuluSoundTracks.” Review in the Digital Humanities 2, 8.
Film Review
2013 * War Dance by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine. Ethnomusicology, 2013: 57 (1).
EPs
Winter 2022 * Think of Such Things. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2022 * Armor of God. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2022 * Blessed. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2021 * To Us a Child is Born. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Summer 2021 * The Bread of Life. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2021 * Kiganda Idioms: Courageous Overcoming. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2021 * Kiganda Idioms: Deliberation. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2021 * Kiganda Idioms: Tomorrow May Never Come. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2020 * Kiganda Idioms: Leading in Love. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2020 * Kiganda Idioms: New Beginnings. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2020 * Together in Difference: Recasting Ugandan Soundscapes. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2019 * Teach Me to Love – Remixes. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2019 * Teach Me to Love. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Summer 2013 * Hassan Rehani Bitchuka and Damascus Kafumbe, with Orchestra Rhumba Kali: Sasa Nifanye Nini? (“What am I to Do?”). Datatone Records.
Fall 2012 * “Njagala Nkwagale” (“I Want to Love You”). In World Music: Traditions and Transformations, second edition, 2012. Compiled by Michael B. Bakan. New York: McGraw-Hill/Sony BMG.
Single Releases
Fall 2021 * “11 Minutes with God.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “17 Minutes with God.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Do Not Fear.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Holy is the Lord Almighty.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Joy of the Redeemed – Isiah 35.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Music for Prayer, Worship, and Meditation.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “One Hour with the Holy Spirit.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Psalm 139.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Psalm 22.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “See First His Kingdom.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “The Bread of Life.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “The Way and the Truth and the Life.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Unless the Lord Builds the House.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “You Fill Me with Joy.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “You Turned My Waiting into Dancing.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Your Consolation Brought Me Joy.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Your Goodness and Love Will Follow Me.” Single Release. YouTube.
Liner Notes
Fall 2014 * Ugandan Suite by Felipe Salles. Tapestry Records.
Fall 2013 * Volume 22: Katonda Tumusinzenga by Moses Motovu and the Afrigo Band. The Afrigo Band.
Presentations
Papers at Conferences
Fall 2020 * “African Music Documentary: Screenings and Conversations with Filmmakers” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, virtual.
Fall 2020 * “The Drum’s Vulnerable Life: Instrument Making, Environmental Challenges, and Conservation Policy in Southern Uganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, virtual.
Summer 2021 * “Punishment and Forgiveness: Justice in Kiganda Court Song.” Presented at the Ubuntu – A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice Interdisciplinary Conference (organized by the University of Colorado Boulder and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts), virtual.
Fall 2019 * “‘Agreements’: Political Philosophy in the Songs of Deziderio Ssaalongo Kiwanuka Matovu (1925-2015).” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN.
Fall 2019 * “‘Agreements’: Political Philosophy in the Songs of Deziderio Ssaalongo Kiwanuka Matovu (1925-2015).” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Summer 2019 * “Kabaka Muteesa II’s Musicians as Creative Intellectuals: Music History and Decolonization in Buganda.” Presented at the International Council for Traditional Music World Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
Fall 2018 * “Royalist Performers as Intellectuals: The Untold Story of Music and Politics in Buganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Fall 2017 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Fall 2017 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.
Summer 2017 * Musical Performance, Inter-Clan Repatriation, and Oral History in Buganda.” Presented at the 44th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference in Limerick, Ireland.
Fall 2016 * “Innovating Ugandan Music on the Global Stage: A Case Study of Herbert Kinobe’s Work.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Fall 2015 * “Musical Performance, Civil War, and Nostalgia in Northern Uganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Fall 2015 * “Ethnomusicological Perspectives on the Nile Project: Musical Collaboration as Transnational Cooperation.” Presented at the 10th Anniversary of the African Cultural Calabash and the 1st International Council for Traditional Music African (ICTM) Musics Study Group Symposium, Durban, South Africa.
Summer 2015 * “Notating Musical Texts of the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Ensemble of Buganda, Uganda.” Presented at the 43rd International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Spring 2015 * “Music and Dance: A Weapon against Civil War in Uganda.” Presented at the Inaugural Africa Conference at Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), Monterey, CA.
Fall 2014 * “Returning the Musical Treasures of My Mother’s Clan: Repatriation and Kinship in Buganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Summer 2014 * “The Place of African Performing Arts in and beyond the Academy.” Presented at the 8th African Theatre Association (AfTA) International Conference, Accra, Ghana.
Fall 2014 * “The Place of African Musical Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Academy: Reflections by Middlebury
College Students.” Presented at the North American Subsection of the African Music Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music (NASAMSG-ICTM) Inaugural Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fall 2013 * “Drums, Kings, and Oral History in Buganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
Fall 2013 * “Musical Regalia, Kingship, and Oral History in Buganda, Uganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting. Indianapolis, IN.
Summer 2013 * “Sifting the Past: Ganda Politics in Kawuugulu Clan- and Royal-based Musical Performances.” Presented at the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference, Shanghai, China.
Fall 2012. “Afrigo Music: The Zili(zo)pendwa of Uganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Panels Chaired
Spring 2022 * “Musical Meaning in Global Spaces.” Chaired at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, virtual.
Fall 2020 * “The World of ‘Afrobeats:’ Globalization, Industry, and the Politics of Naming.” Chaired at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, virtual.
Fall 2019 * “Musicians as Mediators, Culture Bearers, and Catalysts for Change in Africa.” Chaired at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Fall 2018 * “Agency and Empowerment: Musical Performance and Political Action in Transnational Spaces.” Chaired at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
Spring 2017 * “Influences and Intersections: The Relations of Nations.” Chaired at the Middlebury Annual Spring Student Symposium, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * “Musics of Africa.” Chaired at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Fall 2015 * “Transnational Diasporic Cultures.” Chaired at the 10th Anniversary of the African Cultural Calabash and the 1st International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) African Musics Study Group Symposium, Durban, South Africa.
Fall 2014 * “African Music at the University of Pittsburgh.” Chaired at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Summer 2014 * “Researching African and African Diaspora Theatre and Performance: Emerging/Shifting Theories.” Chaired at the 8th African Theatre Association (AfTA) International Conference, Accra, Ghana.
Spring 2014 * “Conduits of Comprehension: Conveying the Broad Subject of African and Diasporic African Music to a Wide Variety of Learners.” Chaired at the North American Subsection of the African Music Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music (NASAMSG-ICTM) Inaugural Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.
Spring 2014 * “Re-envisioning African Musics.” Chaired at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Norton, MA.
Fall 2013 * “Music and Lifecycle: Birth, Adolescence, Death.” Chaired at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Spring 2013 * “Working with Musicians: The 2013 Middlebury Residency of Ugandan Performer Samuel Bakkabulindi and Musical Repatriation in Venezuela.” Chaired at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Brunswick, ME.
Spring 2012 * “Musicultural Cross-pollinations and Adaptations.” Chaired at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Medford, MA.
Roundtable Discussions
Fall 2019 * “Writing Ethnomusicology: The Books We Create and How They Come to Be.” Chair. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN.
Spring 2018 * “Middlebury Institute Author’s Hour. Interviewee with Pamela Jungerberg on Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda, Monterey, CA.
Spring 2018 * “Arts and Traditional African Practices.” Faculty moderator. Middlebury’s UMOJA AMKA Conference, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * “Music, Dance & Storytelling.” Faculty moderator. Sponsored by the Middlebury Student Government Association (SGA) (organized as part of the Taste of the World series), Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * “The Pressures and Opportunities of Being a Native Ethnomusicologist.” Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Fall 2015 * “Teaching and Performing African Music in the Context of My Scholarship.” Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
Fall 2015 * “Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Experience in Jos, Nigeria.” Presenter. African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Spring 2014 * “Professional Trajectories in Ethnomusicology” (President’s Roundtable). Presenter. Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Norton, MA.
Spring 2014 * Middlebury Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) roundtable discussion about college-wide learning goals. Participant. Middlebury, TV.
Spring 2014 * “Re-branding African Performing Arts.” Presenter. Middlebury’s UMOJA AMKA Conference at Middlebury, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2013 * Middlebury John Hamilton Fulton Memorial Lecturer in the Liberal Arts. Co-presenter with artist and activist Angelique Kidjo, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * “Dealing with Violence in the Research Site” (sponsored by the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology). Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Fall 2012 * “One Work from Two Traditions.” Co-presenter. Middlebury Nicholas R. Clifford Annual Symposium, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * “William Grant Still, the Dean of African American Composers.” Presenter. Sponsored by the Middlebury Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) lecture series, Middlebury, VT.
Invited Lectures and Lecture Demonstrations
Fall 2021 * “‘Gganga Survived Narrowly’: Punishment and Forgiveness in Kiganda Royalist Song.” Presented at the Boston University African Studies Center as part of the Walter Rodney Seminar Series, virtual.
Spring 2021 * “Drum Making as a Way of Life in Southern Uganda.” Presented at University of Lincoln, UK, virtual.
Winter 2021 * “Research and Professional Development in Musicology.” Presented in doctoral seminar at Florida State University, virtual.
Fall 2020 * “Music and Society in Uganda.” Lectured demonstration given at University of Lincoln, UK, virtual.
Summer 2020 * “Experiences, Approaches, and Priorities in World Music.” Presented in a Florida State University graduate seminar on world Music pedagogy, virtual.
Winter 2020 * “Recording and Remixing ‘Teach Me to Love’: Musical, Cultural, and Temporal Paradoxes in My Music.” Presented at the Middlebury College Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs as part of the International and Global Studies Colloquium.
Spring 2020 * “Drum Making as a Way of Life in Southern Uganda.” Presented as part of the Middlebury College Virtual Faculty at Home Webinar Series, virtual.
Fall 2019 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Book talk given in a Florida State University doctoral ethnomusicology seminar, virtual.
Fall 2019 * “Music as a Social Contract.” Lecture demonstration given at Elderly Services, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2019 * “Music as Verb.” Lecture demonstration given at the Cold Hollow Sculpture Park. Enosburg, VT.
Spring 2019 * “Music and Its Sociopolitical Relevance in Uganda.” Interactive presentation featuring stories given at Elderly Services, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2018 * “Music and Political Organization in Uganda.” Presented in a Middlebury College first-year seminar on singing communities (FYSE 1347), Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * “Music, Dance & Storytelling.” Invited talk co-presented at the Middlebury College Student Government Association as part of the Taste of the World Series, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2018 * “Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda.” Invited presentation given at the Clemmons Family Farm as part of the Clemmons Family Farm Lecture Series, Charlotte, VT.
Summer 2018 * “Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda.” Invited talk given at the Uganda Museum, Kampala, Uganda.
Summer 2018 * “Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda.” Book talk presented at the Uganda Museum, Kampala, Uganda.
Spring 2018 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Book talk presented at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA.
Fall 2017 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Presented at the Clemmons Family Farm as part of the Vermont Humanities Speakers’ Series, Charlotte, VT.
Summer 2015 * “What I Have Learned about Teaching Music.” Presented at the University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria.
Fall 2014 * Pre-concert lecture for Felipe Salles’s Ugandan Suite performance, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Pre-concert lecture for Felipe Salles’s Ugandan Suite performance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
Winter 2013 * “Sound, Movement, and Ethnicity in Uganda.” Co-presented with percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * “Musical Performance as Social Performance in Uganda.” Lecture demonstration given at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Fall 2011 * “Musical Modes and Scales beyond the Western Classical Music System.” Presented in a music history class at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Creative Work
Commissioned Works
Fall 2012 * “Omwenge mu Maka” (“Alcoholism in a Home”). Commissioned by the Middlebury College
Choir and performed during the Nicholas R. Clifford Annual Symposium, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * “Omwenge: Suite for Woodwinds (Clarinet, Piccolo, Saxophone, and Bassoon).” Commissioned by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble and performed during the ensemble’s twenty-fifth season performance series, Burlington and Montpelier, VT.
Guest Studio Recording Sessions
Summer 2013 * Multi-instrumentalist and co-producer for Ugandan Suite by Felipe Salles. Wellspring Sound Studio, Action, MA.
Summer 2012 * Multi-instrument and producer for Hassan Rehani Bitchuka and Damascus Kafumbe, with Orchestra Rhumba Kali: Sasa Nifanye Nini? (“What am I to Do?”). Tallahassee, FL.
Compositions for the Middlebury Afropop Band Concerts
Spring 2022 * “I Dream of a Better World” – composed for band.
Spring 2022 * “Mu Afrika” / “In Africa” – composed for band.
Spring 2022 * “Nsazeewo” / I Have Decided) – composed for band.
Fall 2019 * “Akaguwa k’Essuubi” / “A String of Hope” – composited for band.
Fall 2019 * “I Dream of a Better World” – composed for band.
Arrangements for the Middlebury Afropop Band Concerts
Spring 2022 * “Malaika” (comp. Fadhili William & Adam Salim) – arranged for band.
Spring 2022 * “Overtake Don Overtake” Overtake (comp. Fela Kuti) – arranged for band.
Spring 2022 * “Tumba” (comp. Angélique Kidjo) – arranged for band.
Spring 2021 *“Malaika” (comp. Fadhili William & Adam Salim) – arranged for band.
Spring 2021 * “Imegi” (comp. Judikay) – arranged for band.
Spring 2021 * “Overtake Don Overtake” Overtake (comp. Fela Kuti) – arranged for band.
Spring 2021 * “Nelson Mandela” (comp. Youssou N’Dour) – arranged for band.
Spring 2019 * “Imegi” (“comp. Judikay) – arranged for band.
Spring 2019 * “Malaika” (comp. Fadhili William & Adam Salim) – arranged for band.
Spring 2019 * “Nelson Mandela” (comp. Youssou N’Dour) – arranged for band.
Spring 2019 * “Overtake Don Overtake” Overtake (comp. Fela Kuti) – arranged for band.
Fall 2019 * “Malaika” (comp. Fadhili William & Adam Salim) – arranged for band.
Fall 2019 * “Moul Koutchi” (Moroccan traditional piece) – arranged for band.
Fall 2019 * “Overtake Don Overtake” Overtake (comp. Fela Kuti) – arranged for band.
Fall 2019 * “Yemaya” (comp. Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca) – arranged for band.
Fall 2019 * “Yesu Ni Wangu” (East African Gospel Song) – arranged for band.
Compositions for the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble Concerts
Spring 2022 * “Leeta” / “Bring” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Fall 2021 * “Essaawa” / Time” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Fall 2019 * “Akaguwa k’Essuubi” / “A String of Hope” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shaker, voices, and bass.
Spring 2018 * “Mpe” / “Give Him/Her” – composed for bow-harp, thumb-piano, bowl-lyre, drums, and bass.
Spring 2018 * “Omwana Omulungi” / “A Good Child” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – composed for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Upendo” / “Love” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shakers, voices, and bass.
Spring 2017 * “Upendo” / “Love”– composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, shakers, voices, and bass.
Fall 2016 * “Singa Nnalina” / “If I Had” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shaker, voices, and bass.
Spring 2015 * “Essaawa”/ “Time” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shaker, voices, and bass.
Fall 2014 * “Baasunanga Endongo” / “They Used to Play Music” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, gourd shakers, voices, and bass.
Fall 2013 * Okwagala / “Love” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Spring 2013 * Kano Akanyonyi / “This Small Bird” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Spring 2013 * “Kata” / “Play” – composed for drums.
Fall 2012 * “Omwana Omulungi” / “A Good Child” – composed for bow-harp and voice.
Fall 2012 * “Sekitulege” / “Sekitulege” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Spring 2012 * “Ka Ng’ende? / “Let Me Go” – composed for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Maama Yampa” / “Mother Gave Me” – composed for drums, gourd shakers, and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Twali Twebuuza” / “We Were Asking Ourselves”– composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Fall 2011 * “Abagenyi Mwebale” / “Thank You, Guests” – composed for thumb pianos and voices.
Fall 2011 * “Tukuba” / “We are Playing” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Arrangements for the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble Concerts
Spring 2022 * “Sematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Sematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Emaali” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Enguuli / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres, tube-fiddles, and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Gganga” / “Alula (Gganga Survived Narrowly”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Ekidigida / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Spring 2022 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2021 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] that Roar in the Lake” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ajulina” / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ekidigida” / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Fall 2021 * “Musiibye Mutya / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ngalo Bikuggu” / “Useless Fingers” or “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Survived Narrowly”
(traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Serukeera” / “Serukeera” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles & voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2021 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Things] that Roar in the Lake”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Agoliam Ka” / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Drum Improvisation” (traditional Ugandan drum idioms) – arranged for ensemble.
Fall 2019 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres, tube-fiddles, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Ngalo Bikuggu” / “Useless Fingers” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2018 * “Agoliam Ka” / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2018 * “[Ugandan] Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2018 * “[Ugandan] Drum Medley” (traditional Ugandan drum idioms) – arranged for ensemble.
Spring 2018 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Survived Narrowly” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2018 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Ajulina / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Ekidigida” / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Fall 2017 * “Emaali / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Enguuli / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres & voices.
Fall 2017 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Survived Narrowly” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Larakaraka dance music (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2017 * “Sematimba ne Kikwabanga” (Sematimba and Kikwabanga”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Agoliam Ka” / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Ekidigida” / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Spring 2017 * “Kizino (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2017 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Ngalo Bikuggu” / “Useless Fingers” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Serukeera” / “Serukeera” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] that Roar in the Lake” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Ajulina” / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Emaali / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Ssematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Ssematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2015 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] that Roar in the Lake” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Agoliam Ka / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, cobbler shaker, and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres, tube-fiddles, and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Ngalo Bikuggu / “Useless Fingers”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Runyege-Ntogoro” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2014 * “Ajulina” / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Emaali” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Survived Narrowly” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Larakaraka” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2014 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] That Roar in the Lake”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voice.
Fall 2013 * “Ajulina” / “Ajulina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Emaali” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Guluma” / “It Hurts” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Larakaraka” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2013 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Olutalo lw’e Nsiisi” / “The Battle of Nsiisi” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums, xylophones, and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Abagenyi Mwebale” / “Thank You, Guests” (traditional Ugandan song/tune – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Kizino” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2013 * “Omusango gw’Abalere” / “The Flutists’ Case” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Otwenge” / “Elbow” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Sematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Sematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Serukeera” / “Serukeera” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Baakisimba” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2012 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Ennyana Ekutudde” / “A Calf Has Escaped” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums, xylophones, and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Ensimbi” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Omugongo Guluma” / “The Back Hurts” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Ssematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Ssematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and drums.
Spring 2012 * “Aida” / “Aida” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Olutalo lw’e Nsiisi” / “The Battle at Nsiisi” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Omugongo Guluma” / “The Back Hurts” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Runyege-Ntogoro” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2011 * “Kasolo Muje” / “Little Animal Muje” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube fiddles and voices.
Fall 2011 * “Kizino” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2011 * “Musiibye Mutya No?” / “How Was Your Day?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres.
Fall 2011 * “Otwenge” / “Elbow” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2011 * “Ssematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Ssematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums, xylophones, and voices.
East African Music Workshops and/or Lecture Demonstrations
Fall 2018 * Stone Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Fine Arts Center, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Northwest Middle, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Southside High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Bethel Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Wade Hampton High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Bryson Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Welcome Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Hollis Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Carolina Museum, Greensville, SC.
Spring 2018 * Middlebury Institute, Monterey, CA.
Fall 2016 * Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA.
Winter 2015 * Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Ripton Elementary School, Ripton, VT.
Winter 2013 * Middlebury College (co-led with Samuel Bakkabulindi) at Middlebury, VT.
Concerts/Performances
Spring 2022 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2021 * Guest performer at the Middlebury 2021 Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2021 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2021 * Guest performer at the Music Workshop Inspire Live: Music from Africa Course Launch Party, virtual.
Spring 2021 * Performance with the Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2019 * Guest performer with the Middlebury Afropop Band at the Middlebury College Activities Board Student Picnic, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2019 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2019 * Guest performer with the Middlebury Community Chorus, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2019 * Guest performer with the Middlebury College Choir, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Stone Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at the Fine Arts Center, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Northwest Middle, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Southside High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Bethel Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Wade Hampton High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Bryson Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Welcome Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Hollis Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Carolina Museum, Greensville, SC.
Spring 2018 * Guest performer, Middlebury Baccalaureate Service.
Spring 2018 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Institute, Monterey, CA.
Spring 2018 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * Guest performer in Short Circuits (a program of improvised and electronic pieces by music faculty and students, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Congregational Church.
Fall 2017 * Guest performer at the Congregational Church in Middlebury.
Fall 2017 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2017 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * Guest performer at the Painted Bridge Arts Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Fall 2016 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Opening Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2015 * Guest performer at President Laurie L. Patton’s inauguration at Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2015 * Guest performer with Ugandan artist Kinobe at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Guest performer with the Felipe Salles Group at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Guest performer with the Felipe Salles Group at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.
Fall 2014 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Summer 2014 * Guest performer with Kinobe and the Wamu Spirit, Harbourfront Festival, Toronto, ON.
Fall 2013 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Summer 2013 * Guest performer with the Felipe Salles Group at Ryles Jazz Café, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 2013 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2013 * Guest performer at the Martin Luther King annual celebration at Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2013 * Guest performer with Ugandan percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi at the Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2013 * Guest performer with Ugandan percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band during the visit of 14th Dalai Lama at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * Guest performer with the Vermont Chamber Music Ensemble at the Flynn Space, Burlington, VT.
Fall 2012 * Guest performer with the Vermont Chamber Music Ensemble. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, VT.
Fall 2012 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * Guest performer at the Congregational Church, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Affiliate Faculty Concert, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Guest performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.