School-Day Performance | Ingoma Nshya: The Women Drummers of Rwanda
June 16, 2021
Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 10-11 AM
Street and Davis Performance Hall, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre
Recommended for students in grades 7-12
School-day performance tickets are available to public and private school students and their teachers, as well as homeschool students with an accompanying adult.
Free; reservation required
For centuries in Rwanda, drumming was an activity reserved exclusively for men. Women were not permitted to touch the drums or even approach the drummers.
In 2004 Kiki Katese created the first-ever Rwandan female drumming ensemble, Ingoma Nshya — which is Kinyarwanda for "New Drum" or "New Power."