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Bernard Woma (died 2018) was a well-known gyile player from Upper West Ghana who spent many years teaching the instrument and introducing it to audiences around the world.[1] Signed to the Jumbie Records label, he released the live album Bernard Woma in Concert on the label in 2003.[2] In 2009, he released the studio album Crossroad on the Chris Wabich label. He formed the Bernard Woma Ensemble with musicians Kofi Ameyaw and Mark Stone and master dancers Sulley Imoro and Peace Elewonu.[3] Gyile is a type of West African xylophone, with seventeen keys constructed over gourds.[4] It holds a place in the musical traditions of the Dagara and Birifor people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso.

Discography

Albums

References

  1. ^ "Bernard Woma – A master of the Ghanaian Xylophone". Dagara Music Centre. ((cite web)): Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ Jumbie Records: Bernard Woma In Concert
  3. ^ Jumbie Records: Bernard Woma Ensemble
  4. ^ Stone, Ruth M. (2010). The Garland Handbook of African Music. Routledge. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-135-90001-4.
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