After a grand and spectacular performance at the LaGuardia Community College March 14 with his Ensemble, Sowah mensah, an ace ethnomusicologist, composer and a “Master Drummer” from Ghana will be shinning again this weekend as he performs at The University of Vermont – Burlington this Saturday 25th March @ 3pm at the Music Building Recital Hall.

Sowah is the director of Sankofa, a Ghanaian Folklore and Dance Ensemble in the Twin Cities and a member of Speaking in Tongues, a four-piece group based out of the Twin Cities that uses two percussionists, a bassist and a Chinese pipa player.

Sowah Mensah's music will be performed by two university ensembles, the Percussion Ensemble and Concert Band. The concert is free and open to the public.

Mensah is an ethnomusicologist, composer and a "master drummer" from Ghana, West Africa. Sowah has taught music in both Ghana and Nigeria and is currently on the faculty of both Macalester College, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. where he directs each school's African Music Ensemble.

In addition, he directs the African Music Ensemble at the University of Minnesota.

Mensah has performed extensively in the United States, Latin America and in Africa, where he performed with the Ghana National Symphony Orchestra.

In the United States, he has performed with notable musicians such as Max Roach, Don Chery, and Julius Hemphil, as well as with ensembles such as the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Chanticleer and the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Florida. In May 2000, Mensah made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in David Fanshaw's African Sanctus.

The University of Vermont James Marsh Professors-at-Large Program brings to the University outstanding individuals of international distinction in the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences and applied fields.

Professors-at-Large may work in or come from any intellectual field. They are non-resident faculty with six-year terms of office who come to the campus numerous times during that period.