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Ricky Burkhead

P.O. Box 302
University, MS 38677
662-915-5665
662-801-4638
burkhead@olemiss.edu

Ricky Burkhead has a performance background in many musical styles and instruments. His musical training began at age 12 and has been a life long process. His performing experience is extensive and covers musical styles including orchestral, African, Caribbean, Latin American, and other world music. He formed the first steel drum band in the state of Mississippi while teaching at Mississippi Valley State University in 1986. He also formed a second band while teaching at the University of Mississippi in 1995. He can perform a variety of programs including Caribbean culture which include a lecture, performance and history of the steel drum; West African culture and the history and performance of the djembe and kalimba; or a solo percussion recital featuring (marimba, vibraphone, timpani, snare drum, drumset orchestral percussion and other ethic percussion instruments). Burkhead’s lectures are informative and audience friendly. Students and teachers are encouraged to participate in African, Caribbean and American (traditional & contemporary) music forms and dance.

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