(top photo) Ashley Maher (center) and Her Big Global Band perform a West African Senegal Dance at  the Santa Monica Pier on Thursday, August 10, 2006 as part of the summer-long Twilight Dance Series. Dancing with Maher (center) is Alecia Hudson (right) and Kara Mack (left). (bottom photo) On the percussions are Magate Sow, 14, (right) and Pape Diouf (left)