(GALLERY) DRUMMERS OF THE OCCASSION




This artwork was painted in the year 2000 by John Essilfie Junior. The art is a symbol depicting our local celebration. There is no way you can term a celebration a Traditional celebration without the drummers. In Africa, drummers are very important aspects of our culture and most importantly in our festivities. In the royal palaces of the tribes in Ghana, West Africa, different types of drums are used depending on the occasion and different drummers are assigned to these drums because only these drummers understand their drum and will know what to play at what particular time during an occasion. Drums also are used to send messages across to people. For example in the Akan tribe in Ghana, they have drummers that handle the talking drum. The talking drum is used to send a message whiles it’s been played. With the talking drum, we have two drummers, one that plays the drum and the other that interprets what the drum is saying.

In the Northern part of Ghana also, drummers are an essential part of the occasion. Mostly, drummers show up in their colorful celebration uniforms and mostly dance barefooted whiles they play the drum. This mostly happens before or after the occasion, that is, they perform these drumming and dancing to usher in the occasion or they perform it at the end of the occasion to depict a successful event.
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