Detroit, The Bambuti's featuring Efe will perform at the RED APPLE GALLERY, Saturday, March 20, 2004 from 7 PM - 2AM. The Gallery is located at 227 Iron Street at Mt Elliott on Detroit's eastside.

Efe is known internationally for his contemporary African rhythms and innovative drumming. The guest speaker wil be Olayame Dabls, Executive Director of MBAD African Bead Museum.

The speaker will focus on the museum's commitment to preserving the cultural heritage of African people's symbolism and visual languages used in beads, beadworks, textiles and carvings.

Dabls said for a better understanding and deeper appreciation of African culture it would be well to examine the basic underlying concepts underlying it, which traditionally were animism, magic, divination, mythology, ancestor worship, totemism, secret societies, etc...

Beads, beadwork and carvings were an additional language through which African people expressed life and communicated with the spiritual world.

Beads, beadwork and carvings were a language of visual communication used from birth until transformation. Virtually every aspect in African society had its ritual and every rite had its appropriate bead, beadwork or carving.

Also featured will be guest poets, musicians and a fashion show. The public is welcome. Seating is limited. For more information or to reserved seats please call (313) 833-8538 or (313) 506-8476.