Wamidan World Music Ensemble
James Makubuya, Artistic Director

Wamidan is the Wabash College World Music Performance ensemble and focuses on the music and dance from various global folk music traditions. The group offers hands-on practice and performance experience in song, dance and a wide variety of musical instruments from different musical traditions of world cultures. The Initial instrumental playing focus is on the East African musical instruments including adungu (9-string bow harp), akogo (thumb piano), awal (gourd crackers), enkwanzi (panpipes), madinda (12 slab log xylophone), ndingidi (single string tube fiddle), ndongo (8-string bowl lyre), ngoma (various drums), endere (vertical reed flute), and ensaasi (gourd rattles). Whereas active members are required to specialize and perform in depth on one instrument of their choice, they are also expected to acquire reasonable performance familiarity and efficiency in two other instruments as well as singing and dancing.

-James Makubuya, Founder

Wamidan ensemble practices take place on Wednesday 5-6:25 p.m. and Friday 5-6 p.m.