Wanda's Picks Radio Show: Odinwa Performance Ensemble

Two members of Odinwa Performance Ensemble, Sister Marysa Kenyatta and Sister Bisola Marignay, Ph.D., join us to talk about their concert this afternoon in Oakland, CA, at Coffee with a Beat on Perkins Street across from Lake Merritt Park. The Performance Ritual is from 3-5 p.m. It is free, but donations are appreciated. The segment is rebroadcast from August 18, 2015.

Bisola Marignay, Ph.D., Singer/Performer, Activist/Writer, Facilitator/Educator, draws from her experience in transformative studies, anthropology, linguistics, social activism, performance studies, and spiritual practice to organize thematic formats for Odinma’s music performances, and to write the stories, spoken word, poems, and songs that center in the group’s performance rituals.

Marysa Kenyatta, Julliard trained jazz pianist, has played a clubs all over the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Keystone Korner and other in San Francisco, Mr. Majors, Dillards, La Pena Cultural Center, 57th Street Gallery and many others in Oakland. She is one of the founders of the Women in Jazz jam sessions at Dillards and hs participated in many women's jazz ensembles during the past 20 years. She still continues to perform in various venues all over the Bay Area. Currently, she is with Father Amde Hamilton, a band of the Watts Prophets. Their recording, "Technical Difficulties," has just been released. She is the pianist for Odinwa Performance Ensemble, playing all styles of Afrikan classical music.