The djembe drums dance and the ngoni’s strings sing as griots tell a tale about the sun and a tree.
This story takes place a long time ago when the stars were still young, and the trees and animals could speak. This is a tale passed down from generation to generation about a water-stealing sun and a baobab tree that grows an unexpected and unusual gift.
With music from Mali and Senegal, an assortment of puppets large and small, one troublesome monkey and a witch with a penchant for dancing, Baobab is a percussion-filled fable about a boy’s noble journey to rescue his home from the threat of drought.
