MUZE IT OUTREACH

Project Goals: Muze It addresses its mission by providing the following goals: 1) to provide artistic development to students through ongoing practices, workshops and performance opportunities where students acquire discipline, presentation and critical thinking skills; 2) to provide leadership training to prepare students to be educators and to support their learning and understanding of certain mathematical skills (to master the techniques of drum and dance one must use certain basic mathematical timing and sequencing); and 3) to encourage social activism and social responsibility by working with a host of community partners throughout Baltimore City and region to raise the standards of thinking for budding student artists and audiences alike.

Meet the Founder

Menes Yahudah is an Ethnomusicologist, Artist and Cultural Arts Education. Named one of the 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows, his West African drumming career has span over 35 years. He is a 1994 graduate of Baltimore City College. During his musical studies both in the United States and abroad, Menes has blossomed into an accomplished musician.

Menes Yahudah is considered one of the most sought after professional drummers in the Mid-Atlantic region. Menes has spent extensive time in the African countries such as: Guinea, Senegal, Gambia and the Ivory Coast, for the purpose of both performance and study. He has also travelled internationally to Asia and the Caribbean.

Menes has performed or collaborated with the likes of Mamady Keita, Omar Penne, Djimo Kouyate, Baile McKnight, Mahiri Fadjimba Keita, Maria Broom, Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Sweet Honey and The Rock, Famoudou Konate, and Papa Ladji Camari.

Menes is the founder and director of Urban Foli, a member of Farafina Kan and a certified instructor with the Tam Tam Mandingue Djembe Academy.
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