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	Obo Addy
		Obo Addy is a master drummer, a repository of Ghanaian music history, a brilliant musician and an innovative original composer.
		In September of 1996, Obo received the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor given to a traditional artist in the United States.
		In 2005, Obo was commissioned by Portland Taiko to combine the rhythms of Ghanaian drumming with the power of Japanese taiko drums.
	www.lclark.edu /dept/music/addy.html (314 words)

	Obo Addy - Music Downloads - Online
		The son of a Wonche priest and medicine man, Addy was exposed, as a youngster, to the rituals and traditions of the Ga people of Ghana.
		Addy's composition, "Wawshisijay (Our Beginning)," was recorded by the Kronos Quartet and featured on their chart-topping 1992 album, Pieces of Africa.
		Addy has taught African song, dance and drumming in schools, including The Cornish Institute and Lewis And Clark College, and has done residencies at African-American Centers in North Carolina, the Sweetwater Art Center in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Washington State University in Pullman, Washington and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/297/Obo-Addy/21392482.html (717 words)

	Ghanian Drummer Obo Addy Will Lead Drummers, Dancers, and Vocalists in Concert Tonight
		Addy carries the musical richness of his native Ghana as an ambassador to the world, with performances, workshops, and festival celebrations that exemplify the century-old traditions of African music and dance.
		Okropong means “eagle” in Addy’s native Ga language, and the musicians and dancers of his ensemble exude the spirit of flight through an array of hand and stick drums, talking drums, bells, and shakers, shifting their rhythmic cadences in call-and-response exchanges.
		Addy, the son of a Wonche medicine man in Ghana, was designated a "master drummer" at the age of six.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/5070 (729 words)

	Obo Addy - Drum Solo Artist
		Obo Addy, the son of a Wonche medicine man in Ghana West Africa, was designated a "master drummer" at the age of six.
		In 1996 Obo Addy was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship Award by the National Endowment for the Arts.
		Obo is the first African born artist to ever receive the award.
	www.drumsoloartist.com /Site/Drummers3/Obo_Addy.html (460 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		In addition to his performing activities, Obo Addy gives instrumental and dance residencies at academic institutions and is the founder and artistic director of the annual Homowo Festival of African Arts in Portland, Oregon.
		Obo has created a strong residency program entitled "Rhythm Explosion" which is aimed at high school age students and not only shows the evolution of traditional to contemporary music but builds in several lecture-demonstrations for music students.
		In 1992 Obo Addy was commissioned by the innovative classical music rebels, the Kronos Quartet, to compose "Wawshishijay" for their chart-topping album Pieces of Africa.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=1028 (752 words)

	Eckerd College . News \| Black History Month Events
		Obo Addy has a 20-year presence on the international performing arts scene and has become known for his ability to celebrate past traditions while expanding to embrace new ideas and foreign influences.
		Obo Addy serves as the artistic director of Homowo African Arts and Cultures (Oregon).
		In 1992, Obo Addy was commissioned by the classical music rebels, Kronos Quartet, to compose "Wawshishijay" for their chart-topping album Pieces of Africa.
	www.eckerd.edu /news/index.php?f=event-blackhistory04 (574 words)

	CSIndy: One beat (February 24, 2005)
		Obo Addy is an experienced musical veteran of four decades whose long career has taken him from his native Ghana to Europe, the Middle East, and the United States where he currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.
		Addy and his ensemble will appear Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Colorado College, bringing a show of traditional Ghanaian instruments and arrangements and also more modern musical styles complemented with dancers in native West African garb.
		Addy is widely credited as one of the creators of world beat, which is not necessarily indicative of a specific style of music but rather a global musical sensibility combining disparate styles into new genres.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2005-02-24/bangstrum.html (640 words)

	Jack Straw Productions: Obo Addy
		Obo has brought to the Northwest a steady stream of Ghanian drummers and dancers to support his efforts, and they have enriched the cultural landscape immeasurably as they spread out through the region.
		Obo has recorded numerous albums and in 1996 was honored with a National Heritage Fellowship award by the National Endowment for the Arts.
		Obo Addy's greatest contribution is perhaps his teaching of Ghanian music.
	www.jackstraw.org /programs/tasp/africa/addy.html (328 words)

	World Music Central - Addy Elders in America: Yacub Addy and Obo Addy
		Yacub and Obo's mother, Akua Hagan, was during her marriage to their father, his lead singer, and each of her four musical sons inherited her ability, although different voices. Tettey Addy (ak.k.a.
		Obo started out as a pop artist with very fast hands and his mother's voice, and later returned to learn more about the traditional culture of other tribes at the Arts Council of Ghana.
		Obo's creative music is based in the best of his jazz/pop experience and his traditional experience.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20041223172826502 (403 words)

	Alula Records
		Obo Addy's musical background is a combination of the rigorous standards of ritual music he learned from his father, a Wonche Priest, with the flashy international pop music he performed as a young professional with bands in Accra, Ghana.
		As a master in the traditional music and dance of the many cultures in Ghana, it is no accident that Obo Addy is a musical bridge between old and new, between Ghanian and foreign.
		Obo Addy is a prominent member of the first generation of African musicians to bring their traditional and popular music to Europe and America.
	www.alula.com /ALU31025.htm (254 words)

	Washington State Arts Commission
		Obo Addy, artistic director of Homowo African Arts and Culture, is a master drummer from Ghana, West Africa.
		Obo has played professionally since he was 18 and has toured internationally with the group Oboade.
		Obo has performed in the schools with a group of drummers and dancers from Ghana for over 15 years.
	www.arts.wa.gov /progAIE/perfGroups/perfHOMOW.html (233 words)

	HOMOWO Artistic Director, Obo Addy
		It is not by accident that Obo Addy is a musical bridge between old and new, between Ghanaian and foreign.
		Lift every voice...Not only is he a percussionist of consummate skill, but Obo Addy is a singer and vocal arranger of unique character whose harmonic ideas and expressive vocal tone demonstrate for audiences the very real connections between West African and African-American singing styles.
		Obo Addy has been awarded the Oregon Arts Commission and Regional Arts & Culture Council Master’s Fellowship, the Governors Award for the Arts and recognition from the Oregon Multicultural Education Association.
	www.homowo.org /obo.html (430 words)

	Obo Addy: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Addy is the son of a tribal medicine man, while being designated a master drummer at the tender age of six.
		Obo Addy uses expressive percussion, engaging melodies and studio wizardry to paint a rich picture of his native Ghana on The Rhythm of Which a Chief Walks Gracefully.
		Addy combines his masterful performances on African hand drums and xylophone with vocals from Jim Cheek and Gary Harris on flutes.
	www.music.com /person/obo_addy/1 (237 words)

	Obo Addy with Okroprong
		As a prominent member of the first generation of African musicians to bring their traditional and popular music to Europe and America, this versatile magician of the drums embodies the past, present and future of Ghana's musical culture.
		Internationally, Obo Addy's contribution can be measured by the fact that he is one of the key originators of the seminal musical movement now known as "Worldbeat."
		Addy, an Instructor of Ghanaian Drumming and Dance at Lewis & Clark College, explores new directions in the world premiere of this full work of contemporary Ghanaian dance featuring his dance troupe, Okropong.
	www.lclark.edu /org/artslive/oboaddy.html (243 words)

	Willamette Week Online \| News \| Cover Story \| Addy VS. Addy • A nasty legal feud divides Portland's African music ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Obo Addy is one of African music's American kings, a 67-year-old master drummer born in Ghana.
		Obo claims the similarity between the two men's first names violates his trademark rights, and wants the court to forbid his nephew from using "OB Addy" to promote himself.
		Obo stood at the center of the storm in a sarong-like scarlet robe that revealed an imposing upper body, surveying his band with justified pride.
	www.wweek.com /story.php?story=3666 (3808 words)

	HOMOWO: Our Performing Groups
		Okropong, meaning "eagle" in Obo Addy’s native Ga language, performs traditional Ghanaian dance and music chosen from the various ethnic cultures in Ghana, including Ga, Ewe, Ashanti, Dagomba and Dagarti.
		Obo Addy a renowned master drummer from Ghana, West Africa will share the many rhythms of his homeland in a solo musical performance.
		Obo Addy has been awarded the Oregon Arts Commission and Regional Arts and Culture Council Master’s Fellowship, the Governors Award for the Arts and recognition from the Oregon Multicultural Education Association.
	www.homowo.org /groups.html (772 words)

	Willamette Week Online \| Music \| THE CURE FOR PORTLAND MUSIC FEVER \| Local Cut \| Blotter, Q&A, Preview \| Wednesday ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Addy also performs at 1 and 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Portland Children's Museum.
		Addy, who celebrates his 70th birthday this weekend, spoke to WW by phone from South Carolina, where he was giving a workshop and seeing one of his symphonic compositions performed.
		Obo Addy: In my society, we are taught by watching and listening.
	www.wweek.com /editorial/3211/7155 (1403 words)

	Drummer treasures tradition while cultivating creativity
		A quarter-century after moving to Portland, Obo Addy still feels a responsibility to preserve the musical traditions of West Africa, something many musicians from his native Ghana are no longer doing.
		Addy says the most popular form of music in Ghana today is called “hip life,” a synthesizer-driven derivation of American pop and hip-hop music.
		Addy spends a good deal of his time sharing his experience and musical wisdom with young musicians, teaching three classes at Lewis & Clark College, where he is a member of the adjunct faculty.
	www.portlandtribune.com /archview.cgi?id=33539 (1150 words)

	Drums of the Addy's
		The Addy family of Accra, Ghana has for generations produced some of the best exponents of classical West African drum and percussion music.
		This is after all the music that, as a result of the migration of Africans to the Americas formed the basis of modern Afro-American and Caribbean musical genres such as Samba, Calypso, Reggae, Salsa, Mambo, Son, Merengue, Jazz and many others.
		Yacub Addy is the senior leader among the professional members of the Addy clan of musicians and dancers, a Ga family originally from the village of Avenor outside Accra, Ghana's capital, whose patriarch was the powerful medicine man or "wonche" Okonfo Akoto.
	members.tripod.com /tettey/drums.htm (813 words)

	Pitzer News
		The Portland Tribune reported today that nationally-recognized West African musician Obo Addy had prevailed in his trademark dispute with reggae musician OB Addy.
		Jeff Pitzer, Obo Addy's attorney, is quoted as saying that "we brought this case to stop the confusion, and I believe Judge Amiton's ruling accomplishes that objective perfectly, while at the same time vindicating Obo's position entirely."
		Addy is suing Portland reggae musician Ahmed Addy, to stop him from using the initials "Ob" to promote his band.
	abc.eznettools.net /pitzer/news.html (758 words)

	ADDY, Obo — A t/m Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The son of a Wonche priest and medicine man, Addy was exposed, as a youngster,
		In 1986, Addy recorded a traditional solo album, "Born In The Tradition" and a contemporary album,
		In 1994, Addy released Gracefully and performed with the Charlestown Symphony String Quartet.
	www.personenencyclopedie.info /A/adamsm/addyobo/view (541 words)

	mandara music recordings, CDs
		Obo Addy (composer, singer, and percussionist) is the eldest brother in the famed Addy family of master drummers of Ghana.
		Since moving to the U.S. Obo has recorded ten CDs of traditional and original music, has written for the Kronos Quartet and other chamber ensembles, and has kept a non-stop schedule of concerts and workshops, at places including the WOMAD Festival and the Kennedy Center.
		Obo is the recipient of two Masters Fellowships, the Oregon Governor's Award for the Arts, and the coveted National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship.
	www.mandaramusic.com /recordings/lewaa.html (1383 words)

	Homowo Festival Attractions And Nearby Hotels Lodging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Homowo Festival of African Arts, a celebration of a traditional harvest festival from the Ga people of Ghana, West Africa, is the largest cultural festival of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
		Brought to the United States from Ghana by Ghanaian Master Drummer, Obo Addy, the Homowo Festival celebrates its fifteenth year in Portland, Oregon.
		Under the artistic direction of Obo Addy, Homowo takes you on this journey through Ghana, West Africa, through its two performing ensembles: Okropong and Kukrudu.
	www.oregonreservations.com /portlandmetro/homowo.html (585 words)

	Master Drummer Obo Addy’s Okropong Ensemble Will Perform West African Music at Williams Center Tonight
		Group earned highest honor traditional artists can receive in U.S. EASTON, Pa.(www.lafayette.edu), February 8, 2006 — Two years ago, master drummer Obo Addy’s Okropong ensemble filled the Williams Center for the Arts with joyous music-making and marvelously resonant cascades of sound and rhythm.
		An original and respected composer whose music reaches far beyond the boundaries of his land of birth, Addy has a two-decade presence on the international performing arts scene and has become known for his ability to celebrate past traditions while expanding to embrace new ideas and foreign influences.
		Addy teaches music at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. He travels throughout the country conducting teaching residencies and performing both solo and with his performing groups: Okropong, dedicated to the traditional tribal music and dance of Ghana, and Kukrudu, which performs original music written by Addy.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/8186 (788 words)

	Obo Addy Returns to UCC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Winchester— UCC Performing Arts presents Obo Addy, master drummer, music and dance from Ghana on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
		Artistic Director Obo Addy and Okropong (Homowo’s resident performing company), performs repertoire that represents a number of cultures native to Ghana, and portrays each culture through its own unique music, movement, costuming, and language.
		Artistic Director Obo Addy, master drummer has been touring the United States since the mid 1970's performing and teaching in colleges and universities and at community centers and festivals.
	www.umpqua.cc.or.us /events/nr06_027.htm (386 words)

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