Kenyon Hall Presents - Naby Camara Band

KENYON HALL PRESENTS
Naby Camara Band
The Talne Trio

Saturday, October 17 2026
Doors: 7pm
Show: 7:30pm

Seated
General Admission: $15
Senior/Students: $10

The Talne Trio presents a unique interpretation of klezmer music. Their repertoire comes from sheet music collected in the early 20th century, popular jewish instrumental music recorded in the mid-20th century, and originals written by the trio's violinist, Kim Goldov.

Kim Goldov - violin, mandolin, shtroyfidl
Mark Lutwak - piano, accordion
Aaron Harmonson - bass

The Naby Camara Band is led by Guinean balafon player, Naby Camara. Naby comes from a lineage of musicians and storytellers known in West Africa as griots. Naby is a griot, as are his brothers, their father before them, his father before him, and so on.

Naby Camara - balafon
Carol Oliver - balafon
Peter Toms - bass
Denny Stern - percussion
Kim Goldov - electric mandolin

So what brings together this unique union of seemingly unrelated musical genres? In the early 20th century, German composer, Carl Orff, recieved a balafon (xylophone) from West Africa. Orff later created a method for teaching music to children that utilized recorders, percussion instruments, and xylophones. His method spread world wide, and in the early 1960s, Lori Goldschmidt, Kim's mother, became an Orff method teacher. Kim was introduced to the xylophone around age 7. However, 100 years before Orff, a Belarusian-Jewish klezmer musician, Michal Gusikov, achieved notoriety performing in the concert halls of Europe on his shtroyfidl, or Russian xylophone. Fast forward to 1986. Kim and Nancy Goldov were forming their first klezmer band and wanted a way to make the band special. Kim built a shtroyfidl based on historical research into Gusikov's instrument, and advice from an African marimba maker in Seattle. Our Kenyon Hall event on October 17 will most likely be the first time a shtroyfidl and a balafon join each other on the concert stage.