How Things Should Be

Over the past holiday weekend I played several nights at Rock City with my buddy Kofi Mawuko. Kofi is a native of Ghana who has lived in the Chattanooga area about 7 years now. Our impromptu Christmas music is very similar to the music on the Winter Mix CD with lots of percussion and rhythmic variety.

Listen to a two minute demo by clicking here.


At one point we had drummed up (pun intended) a pretty good crowd in the performance tent when an elderly group of mostly Spanish speaking folks came in. Their dancing and singing steered our playing into a decidedly Latin feel and before long it morphed into an impromptu and quite rousing version of Feliz Navidad. I had a few extra percussion toys with me on the stage and distributed them among the crowd. Everyone joined in and we were all having a great time when I noticed the faces in the crowd.

The scene was almost like one of those contrived pictures of heaven that include someone from every ethnic background. It hit me that I was here on stage with my friend from Africa singing and playing Spanish music with Asians alongside caucasians alongside . . . well you get the picture. It was one of those moments that is hard to describe but hard to miss. It is how things should be.

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