Ira Bond M.Ed. - Performer, Educator, Folklorist, Researcher, Cultural Anthropologist, Ethnomusicolo
The mission of Diabate Cultural and Performing Arts is to educate the African American community to utilize African cultural values as a mechanism to develop positive relationships through performing and cultural arts.
07/25/2025
You have to catch Malidelphia at the PennMuseum next Wednesday. It will be incredible! I promise!
Malidelphia Performance @ University of Penn 2023 This was our 2023 performance at the University of Penn Museum. Great times!
07/25/2025
Ini che!!! What a Blessing! Famadou was so happy to get our donation. He says he wasn't feeling well, and our help came right on time. Baba Famadou was also very proud M'Bemba. He remembers when Baba was a Petit! Ini che kosebe Baba Famadou Konate for your hard work and your legacy! We salute you!
Famadou Konate Ini Che Famadou shows appreciation to M'Bemba Bangora, Malidelphia and Baba Ira Bond for showing appreciation for his life's work.
06/23/2024
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06/11/2024
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Kakilambe Join us as our community drum class celebrates their second annual performance themed after the Kakilambe mask dance fro the Baga people of Guinea West Africa. Kakilambe is known to have been the most important spiritual mask of the Baga. Its rhythm is played every year when the mask appears from th...
05/24/2024
