Byline: CELINA OTTAWAY STAFF WRITER
HUDSON -- Andre Badila's French pours forth like a liquid that you know is rich but can't quite taste.
No matter. Words are only a part of his message. Watch his hands.
They are hands that know the surface of a hide stretched across a drum, the feel of a paintbrush, the grip of a hammer.
They are gesturing now, to a mural he painted on the side of an abandoned building near his house in Hudson. Badila sways back and forth, his hands following his body, as he describes the sacred earth that lies under the image's meadows and mountains, birds and deer.
It is clear that before Badila was a painter he was a dancer.
Badila will join more than 100 other artists, performers and vendors at the Xerox African-American Arts & Cultural Festival on Saturday afternoon and evening at the Empire State Plaza in Albany. The festival is a celebration of traditional and contempory African-American art and culture. It is one of the largest ``At The Plaza'' events, last year drawing approximately 25,000 people.
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