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Kufara Marimba Band to play Crawford State Park concert
Morning Sun
PITTSBURG, Kan. The Friends of Crawford State Park will not only have their regularly scheduled Friday music event at the Lake View Café patio this week, which will feature a performance by Kent Dorsey, but will also host a special guest performer on Saturday: Kufara Marimba Band.
Dr. Ree Wells-Lewis, a sociology professor at Missouri Southern State University, along with John Wynhausen, is an original member of Kufara Marimba Band, which plays traditional Zimbabwean music.
“‘
Kufara’ means ‘to be joyous, to be happy,’ so it’s joyful and happy music,” Wells-Lewis said. “We have about seven or eight instruments at any given time a bass, a baritone, two or three sopranos and two or three tenors, and we have drums, and we have shakers, which we call