Morgan Greenstreet













I am a drummer, percussionist, composer and organizer currently based in Rockland County, New York. Although I have experience playing everything from Balkan music to Free Jazz, I have aligned myself with the music of West Africa and the African Diaspora, and I am committed to making communally engaged music for dancing everywhere I go. I continue to study and perform traditional and creative music from Ghana, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Guinea and other parts of West Africa; and Cuba, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States of America in the Diaspora. I recently spent three months studying and performing in Ghana, and in 2009 I spent three months studying in Cuba. I completed my undergraduate studies in music performance, composition, ethnomusicology and creative non-fiction writing at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. During my time in Western Massachusetts, I co-founded Sambalanço, a community Samba batucada; Agbekor West, a group that performs and teaches Ewe drumming; and Morgan &amp; the Other Yumas, an electric dance band that performs original Afro-Diasporic dance music. I was also a member of Iroko Nuevo, an Afro-Cuban folkloric dance and drum troupe lead by Miguel Periche; Agbekor Dance and Drum Society based in Boston, and lead by Nani Agbeli and David Locke; and the Five College West African Drum Ensemble directed by Faith Conant. I currently perform with Chiku Awali African Dance Company based in Rockland County, directed by Ghanaian master drummer Jerry Kwashie Dzokoto. I will continue to study and perform traditional and creative Afro-Diasporic dance music with the goal of creating a space for unity, community, critical conversations and sweaty booty-shaking. Enjoy these recorded sounds.