On the Lecture Circuit…
Chief Ayanda Clarke lectures and performs regularly on African culture (drum, dance, and more) and on the percussive arts. Bring him to your campus or convention today for a unique engagement, one you’ll remember for a lifetime! Contact AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc. to speak to a lecture agent today (pr@akilaworksongs.com).
Powerful Natural Occurrences
In light of the heavy and deadly toll that the current hurricane season is taking on people in this country and in the Caribbean, may our understanding of nature expand while we strive to make sense of what is going on around us.
Birth of a Chief
I am, will forever be, and always have been, an African man living in the Diaspora. At birth, my parents endowed me with an understanding of my African identity. They raised me to appreciate, embrace, and be proud of my cultural heritage and my essential self. Every day since then I have carried this gift …
Isese Festival NYC 2017
That time when the New York State Senate commemorated #IseseFestivalNYC in celebration of traditional African culture and spirituality in #Brooklyn. Click the link here to read the official resolution: http://bit.ly/isesefestivalnyc2017 We would like to thank our founding elder Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Ogbe Sooto Ifa Temple of Brooklyn, #THEFADARAGROUP, #256HealingArts, Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation. …
Chief Ayanda Clarke + Blitz the Ambassador: CLASSIC!
Chief Ayanda Clarke of THE FADARA GROUP and hip hop’s favorite worldwide activist-artist, BLITZ the AMBASSADOR, talk about African traditions, our “cultural DNA,” and the two events in Brooklyn on June 4, 2017 that seek to uphold an important truth: #AfricanHeritageMatters. VIDEO: Check out this #BKLive interview from BRIC TV (June 1). #IseseFestivalNYC #AjibiluAwo
Honoring Baba Chuck Davis
I am pictured here with my father (left) Chief Alufopejo Awo (Chief Baba Neil Clarke) and Baba #ChuckDavis (in the center). I am honored and humbled to have worked with such a legendary pioneer. We lost a great teacher and leader in the drum and dance community on Sunday (May 14, 2017). May we always …
Music is Audible Positive Vibrations
“Music has more than one meaning and most practically, it has more than one function. At its most basic level, music is what I have termed as “audible positive vibrations,” or APV. Whether lyrical or instrumental, it is a communicative agent. The most progressive artists, healers, scientists, and academics of their respective times have noted …
Arturo O’Farrill Explains the Drum
Watch this short clip where O’Farrill talks about the process of creating his GRAMMY-Award winning album, “The Offense of the Drum.” Chief Ayanda Clarke is one of the distinguished featured musicians on this great project (2014) … and there’s a glimpse of him in this video.