Celebrating Ghana Independence Day with Samuel Boateng & ADEPA Ensemble at Alphabet City, North Side - Live and Online

Samuel Boateng is a multidisciplinary artist from Ghana. He is also a PhD candidate in music (Jazz Studies program) at University of Pittsburgh where he teaches, performs, and conducts research about cultural encounters in the Afro Diasporic experience, with a particular focus on Ghanaians’ relationship to jazz. He also holds a Masters in Ethnomusicology from Kent State University. As a musician, Samuel has collaborated with various bands and collectives across diverse genres including jazz, funk, reggae, hip hop, highlife, Afrobeat, dangdut, traditional African music and dance. He has also worked with a wide range of Pittsburgh-based musicians including Afro Yaqui Music Collective, Hugo Cruz and Caminos, Feralcat and the Wild, Truth And Rites, Mathew Tembo and the Afro routes, and Dangdut Cowboys