Kwame Ansah-Brew Making Ghana Proud

Kwame Ansah-Brew's name hasn?t appeared in the Ghanaian music industry yet but has carved a good niche for himself outside Ghana.

?I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing my culture - the culture of West Africa - through music, dance and dramatics. My performances are designed to be fun and entertaining while meeting educational goals - ?edu-cultural entertainment?.

Talking about his achievements, he has performed at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and Wolftrap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Vienna, VA. There are other venues that his music has been felt.

Ansah-Brew moved to United States in the late 90s, an important country of African-American music to share the rich heritage of Ghana with the American audience.

Ansah-Brew had his first music lessons at SUNY-Brockport (State University of New York) where he studied dance and West African percussion with Clyde Alafiju Morgan and Khalid Armed Saleem in the Dance department.

As a traditional musician, his career began at the age of 7, playing appellations to the Chief in the royal palace. Ansah-Brew has made continuing the cultural traditions of the past his lifelong goal. His love for traditional Ghanaian music and dance led to a Diploma in Dance from the University Of Ghana School Of Performing Arts.

Ansah-Brew has been performing African Drumming and Dance in the United States since 1994 and is also a tutor at the Goucher College teaching dance and music courses.

He has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Africana Studies department at the University Of Maryland Baltimore College since 2005.

Ansah-Brew, the saxophonist has been very instrumental in sharing West Africa?s music with most of the Univeristies in America. He has been contracted by Wolftrap Institute of Early Learning Through the Arts as a resident teacher to teach arts.
He has also performed dramatic and music programs in partnership with musician and actor Kofi Dennis under the title of Anansegromma of Ghana.

Ansah-Brew has exceptional hands of playing the saxophone, flute, guitar, accordion, the drum set, and an array of African percussion instruments. In recent years, his performance repertoire has expanded to Afro-Jazz fusion and other contemporary forms of expression.

His presence has been felt at events like FMJS 11th Annual East Coast Jazz Festival in Rockville, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, Wolftrap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Vienna, VA and more.

Ansah-Brew is wedded to Josephine Ansah-Brew and has three children namely Kofi, Akosua and Ofosua.

He has been idolized by those who have worked with him, and has inspired a wide generation of jazz performers and composers.


By Nii Atakora Mensah, Ghana Music.com

Kwame Ansah-Brew's name hasn?t appeared in the Ghanaian music industry yet but has carved a good niche for himself outside Ghana.

?I have thoroughly enjoyed sharing my culture - the culture of West Africa - through music, dance and dramatics. My performances are designed to be fun and entertaining while meeting educational goals - ?edu-cultural entertainment?.

Talking about his achievements, he has performed at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and Wolftrap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Vienna, VA. There are other venues that his music has been felt.

Ansah-Brew moved to United States in the late 90s, an important country of African-American music to share the rich heritage of Ghana with the American audience.

Ansah-Brew had his first music lessons at SUNY-Brockport (State University of New York) where he studied dance and West African percussion with Clyde Alafiju Morgan and Khalid Armed Saleem in the Dance department.

As a traditional musician, his career began at the age of 7, playing appellations to the Chief in the royal palace. Ansah-Brew has made continuing the cultural traditions of the past his lifelong goal. His love for traditional Ghanaian music and dance led to a Diploma in Dance from the University Of Ghana School Of Performing Arts.

Ansah-Brew has been performing African Drumming and Dance in the United States since 1994 and is also a tutor at the Goucher College teaching dance and music courses.

He has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Africana Studies department at the University Of Maryland Baltimore College since 2005.

Ansah-Brew, the saxophonist has been very instrumental in sharing West Africa?s music with most of the Univeristies in America. He has been contracted by Wolftrap Institute of Early Learning Through the Arts as a resident teacher to teach arts.
He has also performed dramatic and music programs in partnership with musician and actor Kofi Dennis under the title of Anansegromma of Ghana.

Ansah-Brew has exceptional hands of playing the saxophone, flute, guitar, accordion, the drum set, and an array of African percussion instruments. In recent years, his performance repertoire has expanded to Afro-Jazz fusion and other contemporary forms of expression.

His presence has been felt at events like FMJS 11th Annual East Coast Jazz Festival in Rockville, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, Wolftrap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Vienna, VA and more.

Ansah-Brew is wedded to Josephine Ansah-Brew and has three children namely Kofi, Akosua and Ofosua.

He has been idolized by those who have worked with him, and has inspired a wide generation of jazz performers and composers.


By Nii Atakora Mensah, Ghana Music.com