Dafaalla El Hag

Oud/Percussion/Banimbo/Zombara
SUDAN

Native from the city of Oum Dourman, Sudan, Dafaalla El Haj is a diverse multi-instrumentalist and performer based in Khartoum. Currently at the head of the the Sundanese Traditional Music Center (art center and museum), he spent many years experimenting and supervising techniques of traditional instruments restoration or reconstruction. He participated and performed regularly with the Sudanese National Band for Traditional Instruments. Dafaalla’s thougrough knowledge of the manufacture and organolgy of traditional instruments leads him to teach in various schools and institutes throughout Sudan, where he develops his constant reaserches.