Cosmas Magaya: Live Performance and Interview – Podcast 15

Published: Nov. 9, 2011, 2:57 p.m.

Cosmas Magya is a master of the Mbira ( a type of thumb piano) from the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe.  Here he performs and explains the way the instrument is used in ceremonies to contact ancestors.  We'll also hear a track he recorded with another powerful Mbira player and vocalist Beauler Dyoko.