Chuckie Joseph Chuckie Joseph began his musical/drumming career at the tender age of two with Arthur Hall Afro American Dance Ensemble. Since then, he has performed all over the world with many people and groups including but not limited to: Spoken Hand, Mewa Dance & Drum, La Opinion, Michael Spiro, Orlando “Puntilla” Rios, Alfredo Coyudé Vidaux, Robert “Bobby” Crowder, Greg “Peachie” Jarman, Carlos Aldama, Adama Drame, Mbemba Bangoura, Robert “Bobbie” Artist, Sonic Liberation Front, Alo Brasil, Aña House: Awan D’Olokun (Añabe), Olufemi Mitchell, Ama McKen…and his own father. Chuckie playes several musical instruments including, but not limited to: Bata, Djembe, Congas, guitar, bass, drum set, piano & timbal
	Adwoa Tacheampong Adwoa Tacheampong is a vocalist, drummer, dancer & actor who has been performing since the age of 10.  She has been playing Afro-Cuban Batá  & studying Afro-Cuban Orisha Dance since 2003. She has been dancing Akom Akan (Ghana) dance for 10 years. She currently performs with several companies in the Philadelphia area including PhillyBloco (Brazilian), Voices of Africa (African & Folk), Tambonito (Afro-Cuban & Afro-Brazilian), Leana Song (Afro-Cuban & Ghanaian) and Sonic Liberation Front (Avant-garde jazz & Afro-Cuban), as well as being on call for other musical and acting opportunities.  Adwoa plays several instruments including, but not limited to Batá, surdo, sekere, sakara, agogo, & caixa.  She is an avid photographer & writer. She continually seeks to expand her creative opportunities including studying conga drumming & continuously strengthening her voice.
	Elizabeth Sayre Elizabeth Sayre started singing and playing music as a child.  She has studied, played, published articles about, taught, and organized events around African diasporic music for 20 years.  Since the early 1990s she has apprenticed with masters in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Haitian, and West African drumming, and she plays congas, sekere, batá drums, Brazilian percussion, and other instruments. In the Afro-Cuban musical vein, she studied with Omomola Iyabunmi, Olori Oriyomi, W. Paul Lucas, Frank Williams, Clifford “Peache”  Jarman, Leonard "Doc" Gibbs, Ron Howerton, John Amira, Orlando Fiol, Felix Sanabria, Amelia Pedroso, Lázaro Pedroso, Michael Spiro, Michel Aldama, and Freddy Martinez in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and Havana, Cuba, where she also performed with Amelia Pedroso¹s Ibbu Okun in 2000.  Since 1999 she has accompanied dance classes in New York City for former dancers from the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional, Yoruba Andabo, and Cutumba, some of Cuba's top professional folkloric companies.  Elizabeth is musical director of Okan Iloro, an all women's music and dance ensemble, and was percussion captain for Obini Ashe, a 17-woman Afro-Cuban folkloric ensemble that appeared at Symphony Space in New York and the Painted Bride in 2003.  She has been a member of the Philadelphia dance band sensation Alô Brasil since 2001, and has played and recorded with a variety of groups since 1993.
	Ron Howerton Ron has been playing percussion since the age of seven. He was inspired by musicians who used to practice at his brother's house, including such notables as John Coltrane and Jimmy Garrison. Ron Howerton received his music education from the Community College of Philadelphia and Granoff School of Music. Ron began taking percussion seriously in 1980 and studied with such teachers as: Abdu Johnson, Bobby Crowder, Orlando Floi, Skip Burton, and Airto Morena. Ron has appeared professionally in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has performed in many worldwide festivals such as: Kool Jazz Festival, New York; JVC Festival, New York; Bern Festival, Switzerland; Berlin Jazz Festival, Germany; Playboy Jazz Festival, California; and Mellon Jazz Festival, Philadelphia. His touring engagements have been with Jamaladeem Tacuma, Minas, Spoken Hand, Leslie Burrs, Siembra and Latin Fiesta. Among his radio and television experiences he has appeared on Temple University Public Radio, WXPN-Philadelphia and WKDU-Philadelphia; Puerto Rican Panorama-ABC; City Lights-NBC; and Jamaladeen Tacuma Video-MTV. Ron Howerton is versed in styles that range widely: Latin, African, Brazilian, Caribbean, and jazz. Currently Ron does many lecture demonstrations and workshops and performs in many theater productions.  As a member of the Doc Gibbs Ensemble, Ron has been on Musicopia's roster since 2000.
	Nkruma Opare Nkruma Opare is an Akan priest, writer, dancer, poet,singer and motivational speaker. He began his career at the age of thirteen as one of the original  members of the Voices of Africa choral ensemble. He was also a member of the childrens group Elete Egbe Omode and learned  traditional African dances under dancer Obrafo Kwabena Acheampong. He has also trained under master dancer Assumane learning traditional Senalgalese dancing and has performed with him. At an early age he was introduced to traditional African music and dance, these rhythms have permeated his soul and he has now returned to fully cultivate them and pay homage to his ancestors. Under the tutelage of his mother drummer and Akan priest Nana Baakan Agyriwirah he has grown to love his African heritage and wishes to express that through song, dance and drumming. He is excited and humbled to be part of this collaboration.
	Nyo Agyiriwah Okomfo Akosua Nyo Is an Akan priest of the Nana Akoneddi Shrine, Ghana, West Africa.  She has studied Ballet, Jazz, African dance, as well as acting for over 30 years. She studied African drum and percussions under Master Drummer Nana Akosua Baakan.  And performed with the "Voices of Africa" Choral & Percussion Ensemble “for 10yrs as a, singer, dancer and percussionist. As a vocalist she has performed with Songwriter Felicia Webster of “With Love, Felicia, and recently with Poet/Spoken word artist N’Tanya Davina Stewart. Okomfo Nyo has studied dance with Joan Myers Brown Philadanco, Hodari Banks/ Vena Jefferson, and Yeye Olori Oriyomi (MAMA YEYE). She performed with many dance companies in and around the Philadelphia area, Including Dr. Katrina Hazard-Gordon the Diaspora Dance Theater, Tri-State Ballet, Dr Kariamu Asante & Company. Akosua Nyo has performed at the Smithsonian in D.C.  Universities such as Howard, Bowling Green, University of Pa, UMass, Univ. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh as well as college and music festivals all over the United States, Toronto and Quebec Canada, the University of Loughbrough in England and the Women’s Music Festival in Accra, Ghana.  Her theater experience includes a role in the movie "Beloved" extra parts in “Fallen” “Snake Eyes” and the “Philadelphia Story”.
	Cito Caraballo Bio upcoming...
	Adrienne Hall-Cedeno Adrienne Hall-Cedeno is a native of Atlanta, GA.  She has been performing for 15 years and teaching professionally for 12.  Adrienne is primarily trained in modern, w. African, and afro-brazilian dance but is also skilled in ballet, jazz, tap and hip-hop.  Adrienne has studied and performed in China, West Africa, South Africa, Cuba, Brazil and Holland.  While in Atlanta she performed with the Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, Jomandi Productions and Total Dance/Dancical Productions.  Adrienne received her Bachelor degree in Modern Dance/Dance Education from the University of the Arts and her Masters in Education concentrated in dance in addition to her PA certification to teach grades 7-12 from Temple University. In December 2008 she received her certification in Contemporary African Dance from the University of Ghana in Accra. Adrienne has been employed as an Adjunct Professor in the dance department at Temple University for 3 years. In addition to this she is also employed by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts in Education, Delaware Institute for the Arts and Education and Rutgers-Camden Artist Community Outreach Program “as a Dance Teaching Artist and Imhotep Charter School as a Dance Instructor.  Since relocating to Philadelphia Adrienne has worked for the Philadelphia Dance Alliance, University of the Arts, The Institute for the Development of Education in the Arts “IDEA” and an array of dance studios in the tri-state area.  Adrienne is a former Apprentice for Urban Bush Women however she has also danced with Rhythm and Roots, Charles O. Anderson’s Dance Theater X , Troupe DA DA, Dunya/Jassu Ballet and works as a Guest Performer and Director of Dance Education Artist in Residency program for Danse 4 Nia Repertory Ensemble.  She currently performs with Kariamu and Company, Alo Brasil and Kulu Mêlée.
	Kwesi Opare Kwesi began his musical journey in the womb, coming along with his mother Adwoa Tacheampong on many performances! He currently is studying bata, conga, djembe agogo and sekere.
	Shawn "Dade" Beckett Bio upcoming...

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