when: 10:00pm

where: Red Room

Peter Joseph Burtt, a lifelong drummer, draws from many sources to inform his music and chronicles the years he spent living and studying
with master musicians of Africa.  Much of his music is played on traditional instruments:   the lute like Kora and the Mbira or thumb piano. 
Songs are also transposed for the guitar.  Burtt was a graduate student in San Francisco, studying creative writing , spoken word, and African drum
and folklore when he began looking to cultures that maintain oral histories for connections between rhythm, music, and the spoken word.