PERCUSSION
ARTS PROJECTS
MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY OF EXPERIENCE
ABOUT
Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, a percussionist very much in demand, has performed with major American dance companies such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Limon Dance Company and the Dance Theatre of Harlem in some of the world’s greatest performing arts venues.
His recording career is as equally varied as it is vast in jazz idioms, rhythm and blues, and most African derived music. He is the founder of JAAMBO, an Afro Caribbean ensemble and the founder of Percussion Arts Projects LLC. He is a featured member of the esteemed Last Poets. He has long been acknowledged as one of New York City’s master teachers of African Drumming and the rhythms of the Diaspora in the Americas.
For over 25 years, Baba Don Eaton Babatunde has been on faculty at the Harlem School of the Arts teaching all ages, from four years of age to adults.
