User:JKizzieHumanities/Sidy Maïga

Sidy Maïga is a musician and educator living in Providence, Rhode Island. Maïga is from Mali, West Africa and moved to Providence in 2006. He is a master percussionist and has taught workshops at Brown University, Fitchburg State University, and Rhode Island College. In 2011, Maïga received the Folk Arts Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He won the MacColl Johnson Fellowship the same year. Maïga has been a featured artist at the annual Providence arts festival, PVDFest since its inception.