Second to last day of this year’s International Arts and Ideas festival featured Ivory Coast singer, dancer, and percussionist Gnahore. A striking stage presence, she had an outfit that was adorned with shells, crimson dyed hair that flowed down to her calves, and a pirate hat made from purple feathers. She danced and played a variety of bangables: shoulder drum, floor tom, gourds, shakers, and congas. While dancing and flailing around the drums, it connoted a sense of African ritual. She sang in French and closed each tune with a “merci beaucoup”. As colorful as she was, her band seemed to be a motley collection of Caucasian basement stoners from East Haven ,complete with backward baseball hats. Gnahore was in some serious shape and I was worried that her outfit or hair could send her tumbling. Relatively sparse crowd for a cool Friday night.
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