Music!

Last night we went to a Swedish-African Fusion Musical with the International Professionals Group at the Embassy of Sweden.

We saw performances by Maher & Sousou,a Swedish/Senagalese couple who share a destiny shaped by music. She grew up in Sweden and fell in love with the kora, a West African stringed instrument. Hes from a well-known family in Senegal, and learned to play the kora at an early age. We snapped them (right) with their percussionist Salieu Dibba.

Seth Chanowitz, AHCs Iryna Basso and Keepers Svetlana Fomenko.

Embassy of Swedens Jenny Bilodeau with event hosts IPGs S. Kumar and Skaddens Karen Abbott.

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