Pape Demba "Paco" Samb is a Senegalese-American griot, hand drummer, storyteller, and educator of Wolof ancestry. Based in the United States, he performs throughout the country and has been described by the Delaware government as an "internationally acclaimed artist." Paco has performed with musicians of Senegal and the Gambia including Laba Sosseh, Musa Ngum, and Bala Sidibé. Aside from performing, he leads drumming classes, workshops, and McDaniel College's Student African Drum Ensemble. Paco has stated his belief in his ability to instruct those "who have never touched a drum before." Paco plays both traditional and contemporary Senegalese music as well as "reggae, rap, funk, jazz, pop and a variety of other styles." His own band, the Super Ngewel Ensemble, "performs traditional Senegalese rhythms on authentic handmade instruments while incorporating dance and storytelling." Personal life Pape Demba Samb was born in 1976 in Dakar, Senegal. He was born into the Samb griot family, who "have been the keepers of the ancestral history, stories, and music of his native Wolof peoples in Senegal for hundreds of years." His entire family is skilled in dance, drumming, singing, and storytelling. He began playing djembe when he was 7 years old and did not have a formal education in his youth. In an unknown year, he married Karen Rege. Circa 2013, Samb drummed in charity concerts for SOS Children's Villages in Chicago. The following year, Samb released his first album. In 2016, Paco was invited to instruct "Global Drumming Traditions," a course on drumming at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. The original instructor had fallen ill, and McDaniel's music department head Robin Armstrong asked her friend Karen Rege if her husband Paco could step in to lead the course. Paco agreed to join the Maryland campus even though it was "two hours from his Delaware home," so he hosted a weekly 90-minute course, instead of three-hour sessions typical to the school. Rege and four instructional designers retrofitted the course to be a better match for Paco; due to English being his second language, the new course "prioritized action over words" and encouraged students to devote the entire lesson time to ensemble practise, refining their drumming technique at home. At the end of the course, students were required to film themselves playing the drum to monitor their progress. This was titled the "double-flip model" (a reference to the flipped classroom). The new course format was successful;