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SUMMARY:Althea Sully Cole at Artistree in South Pomfret!
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nAlthea Sully Cole\nSunday\, March 9\, 2025 - 3:00 PM EST\
 n\n\nTICKETS\n\nAlthea SullyCole is a multi-instrumentalist\, vocalist\, 
 and ethnomusicologist from New York City.\nAlthea SullyCole is a multi-ins
 trumentalist\, ethnomusicologist\, and researcher whose music focuses on 
 West African and other musical traditions. She plays the kora\, a 21-stri
 nged West African harp\, and has performed with many renowned musicians. 
 She also creates audio content\, including a weekly podcast called The Ear
 full.\n\nAlthea is currently an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at 
 the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montréal\, QC. She w
 as previously an Assistant Professor of Music at California State Universi
 ty\, Monterey Bay. Althea received her PhD in ethnomusicology from Columbi
 a University in February of 2023\; an MA in ethnomusicology from Columbia 
 University in 2018\; an MA with distinction in Music in Development at the
  School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London in 2016\; a
 nd a B.A. in ethnomusicology at Barnard College in 2012.\n\nAlthea studied
  her primary instrument\, the kora\, a 21-stringed West African harp\, und
 er korists Yacouba Sissoko and Edou Manga. She spent 3 years studying the 
 instrument in Dakar\, Senegal\, where she was a resident artist at Bois 
 Sakre studios. In addition to her solo work\, she has worked with Billy
  Harper\, Billy Bang\, Fred Ho\, Sahad Sarr\, Daara J Family\, Faada 
 Freddy\, Royal Messenger\, LaFrae Sci\, Lisette Santiago\, Joseph Daley\
 , Craig Harris and father Bill Cole (in his Untempered Ensemble)\, am
 ong others. In 2015\, Althea formed the duo 42 Strings alongside tradit
 ional Chinese zheng player\, Muqi Li\, with whom she performed at Royal Al
 bert Hall and on BBC 3 Radio. More recently\, she performed at the Apoll
 o Theatre in New York City with LaFrae Sci’s Groove Diplomacy Orchestra\
 ; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. wi
 th Lisette Santiago’s project “In Her Voice”\; and at the John L. Ti
 shman Auditorium at the New School in New York City with Craig Harris’s 
 project “Festac ’77?”. In addition to these special projects\, you c
 an find Althea performing solo and with her trio (with guitarist Alec Sael
 ens and sax/flute player Ras Moshe).\n\nThe kora is a West African string
 ed instrument that is a cross between a harp\, lute\, and guitar. It is p
 layed by plucking the strings with the thumb and forefinger of each hand.\
 n\n\n
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LOCATION:Artistree\, 2095 Pomfret Road\, Pomfret\, VT\, United States
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