Ken "Skip" Burton
Log of High‐8 Recordings (1993)

In September 2018, Frances Scarborough arranged a meeting with Ken "Skip" Burton,
who donated the eleven recordings which are now numbered AHC_KSB_001 through AHC_KSB_011
in no particular order, which is to say, they are not in chronological order.

The tapes are listed in approximate order and with thumbnails, below.

In February 2019 I cut together a short compendium of these using a single track of children
singing, dancing and drumming with very little sync sound.
The result is an appreciation of the 1993 recordings as in the proverbial
appreciation of a flower from the back of a galloping horse.



AHC_KSB_005
1h 01m 10s
29.34 GB
Accra / Saka and Fune / Skip & Ione
Airplane disembark, cityscapes in Africa


3m 28s Philadelphia dances


23m 40s back to Accra


Ione dancing
33m 30s goat, street scenes
34m 13s evening dance / highlife / bus at 37m 01s
37m 28s Skip addresses camera, Sunday night, Melinke Hotel



38m 24s Ione meets with Saka Acquaye

AHC_KSB_003
1h 01m 56s
29.67 GB
Ghana Kumasi No. 3 Drumming and Dance
On the bus / lunch / on the bus
6m 47s exterior drums, bells, sekere


8m 42s regroup, new song at
11m 52s new song / discussion
19m 06s try again
37m 57s new beginning
41m 50s and again
58m 47s truck with chairs arrives
end of tape 003 / continues on AHC_KSB_002

AHC_KSB_002
1h 01m 35s
29.41 GB
Ghana Dancing No.2
exterior drumming continued from AHC_KSB_003 with new camera angle
26m 24s regroup w Skip in frame
40m 20s cut / dancers rehearse, a bit


41m 39s drummers
44m 49s dancers rehearse / Ewe arms
45m 32s drummers with dancers in background
48m 42s song
56m 22s interior song continues / Ione
end of tape / continues on AHC_KSB_004

AHC_KSB_004
57m 32s
28.08 GB
Ghana Drum and Dance No. 4
Interior with Ione Nash / continuation of AHC_KSB_002


8m 24s Ione and women dance
Drum and dance rehearsal

AHC_KSB_006
1h 01m 13s
29.44 GB
Accra / Derba / Honoring
Exterior, setting up / statue of Unknown Warrior
3m 03s Interior elders / elder interview


13m 41s Exterior drums


Gold staffs


Procession of chiefs / drums
24m 38s the Wulomei pours Libations
25m 54s introductions / welcome


34m 30s Procession / dance / priest
47m 39s king dance


48m 07s Skip drums / girls dance EWE moves
54m 24s another dance, same girls
57m 18s Male dancer


58m 01s red, yellow, black costumes, men and women


end of tape / continues on AHC_KSB_007

AHC_KSB_007
Evening Drum Dance Ghana
1h 00m 24s
28.82 GB
Five bells in yellow & gray costumes (as seen in AHC_KSB_006)
Libations


1m 04s Ione dances Skip drums
m 15s King with sword addresses the assembled
"Looks are deceiving. The Ga are the warriors of Ghana"


8m 06s dance song, men and women



8m 50s priest libations / shrine dances?



18m 34s Next dance / Tigare? Stick/ax
23m 16s announcements auction?
23m 57s young drummers, women dancing
27m 45s young man vs older guys philosophical discussion
31m 14s Ione says goodby
31m 56s Traveling shots goats


33m 00s night at the hotel / evening drum dance / with lights / drum routines


48m 12s woman dances
50m 47s man dances/head drummer dances/boy-girl/girl dance/boy-girl/girl etc.

AHC_KSB_008
Ghana 8-13-03 #3
Anomabu Beach 14 & 15 / Castle Prison
58m 58s
28.19 GB
On the bus
7m 32s market
8:35 cloth dyers / printers


10m 50s Ione prints on cloth
12m 14s On the bus



13m 06s Castle Fort
16m 13s views Ione sitting


17m 16s baskets, drums / Skip sits in
20m 09s On the bus / new venue w/lizards boxers / Mohammad Ali / Ashanti Kingdom
27m 51s On the bus


40m 40s At the beach
53m 53s On the bus


56m 09s Another venue / colonial Castle of Elmina

AHC_KSB_009
Volta Falls & Festival
57m 57s
27.72 GB
Bus / night / shore / coming home again
3m 27s On the bus


7m 11s park / water / bird song / fishermen in boat
8m 52s sign says Denkyenya pow (Island) Nature Park Project / Volta River
16m 32s On the Bus
18m 57s Grounds of the Hotel
21m 30s the name is "boBObo" / hotel room / night
28:24 On the bus / "Logba Adzakoe" / parade / village, country, town


30:25 Festival / dancers, drums, trumpet



36:33 Ione joins dance
38:26 landscape / trees, botanical leasons, rain / waterfall


42:27 Ione / song with water on lens / clean lens drums and singing


50:13 New song / some dancing


54:59 On the bus


55:38 new venue / drums / Ione / girls dance at 57:20


DANCE CONTINUES ON AHC_KSB_001

AHC_KSB_001
Rain Forest / Steve? Village / Kente Village #1
58:32
28.08 GB
This tape continues from AHC_KSB_009

8 women dancing


Bugle/drums/sekere
14:00 2nd song
man & woman dance


37:00 Introduce Ione
goats
38:00 auto
47:00 beer story funnyman / not a leg to stand on



49:00 girls welcome dance

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