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Kennesaw University, Kennesaw, GA

This day is part of Kennesaw University’s year long focus on the Nation of Senegal. The music, the culture, the people and the world wide influence of this West African nation.

 Massamba Diop and Tony Vacca are the co-founders of The Senegal-America Project, and they have been working together in Senegal and America for over two decades. It looks like that when you see them together, it sounds like that when you hear their music, and it feels like that when they perform.

 The music they have created together is a contemporary living link between the ever-evolving traditions of their respective countries. Where Massamba Diop grew up immersed in the confluence of village and city sounds in Senegal’s capital city of Dakar, Tony Vacca grew up outside of Newark, New Jersey just as Jazz, Blues Motown and Rock and Roll were about to explode into the music of The Sixties.

 They found each other on a concert stage in America where Massamba was touring with world renowned Senegalese singer Baaba Maal. Tony was part of the opening act that night, and from that point forward their friendship and their music became a dynamic fusion of possibilities. It was just the beginning of The Senegal-America Project.