[Afropop] Final rehearsals with the newly coined Niger River Ensemble are underway for the bid show tomorrow at the Eisenhower Theater, The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. The evening of music focused on two great African Rivers will be emceed by the one and only Georges Collinet, host of public radio's Afropop Worldwide, and Banning Eyre, a writer and producer for the show since its beginnings in the late '80s, and is curated by Sean Barlow and Banning Eyre.