World music comes to Tucson

Ashley Dacey on the pipa, left, and Julie Trujillo on the dizi, members of Summer Thunder Chinese Music Ensemble, play 'Su Di Man Bu.' The group is made up of students and community members who enjoy playing traditional Chinese music.

Members of the World Music Gang play on bowls set down after using them as props.

Bernard Woma, master Ghanian musician, left, and his student, Mike Vercelli, director of the World Music Gang, play the Ghanaian xylophone. Woma is world-renowned as well as a principal member of the National Dance Company of Ghana, invited to play with the WMG and Summer Thunder at Crowder Hall in the Music building last night.