Global Dimension with Guest Artists Haruna Walusimbe and Mark Stone

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Thu, May 7, 2026 - 7:30pm PDT

Performing Arts Center 155 - Concert Hall

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The Western Washington University College of Fine and Performing Arts presents Haruna Walusimbe and Mark Stone in a program highlighting music from East and West Africa. The duo will be joined by WWU professor Patrick Roulet and the WWU Percussion Ensemble and will feature the embaire xylophone hand crafted for the WWU by the musicians of Nakibembe, Uganda.

Haruna Walusimbi is a Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and dancer from Uganda. He is one of Uganda’s most celebrated artists, with extensive performance and teaching experience.

Mark Stone is an acclaimed multi-percussionist and music educator from the United States. He was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at Makerere University in Uganda and is currently Associate Professor of World Music and Percussion at Oakland University in the U.S.

Walusimbi and Stone have performed together since 1997, presenting moving concerts and enlightening educational programs featuring ngoma repertoire of Uganda and new music rooted within the ngoma tradition. As an expert dancer, singer, and performer of the endingidi fiddle, akogo kalimba, enkwanzi panpipes, embaire marimba, ntongooli harp, ebigwala trumpet, and many types of drums, Haruna Walusimbi truly embodies the holistic nature of traditional East African music.

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