Abdoul Doumbia

Director and Instructor of African Drum Ensemble

Abdoul Doumbia is an exceptional master drummer from Mali, West Africa, who was brought to the US by Brown University in 1991, to participate in their African Dance Program. His formal drumming education began at age six with a sixteen-year apprenticeship to the honorable master drummer, Moriba Keita. For eight years, Abdoul was the lead drummer with the 47-member professional national drum and dance troupe Babemba of Mali. Abdoul now resides in Boulder and teaches djembe and djun-djun drum classes, while also performing all over the country. He is the co-founder, with Karen Marx, of the Mali Assistance Project in Boulder, founded in 1999 to provide famine relief and water solutions in his home village of Foutaka Zambougou, Mali.