There are not many musical happenings which ooze summer from every pore like Campfire Club‘s heartening gigs. Organised by The Nest Collective, the most welcoming music series of the season is ready to build a few fire pits around South and East London and call together hundreds of folks, world...
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01/06/2018 - 29/09/2018 7:00 pm - 6:30 pm Campfire Club 2018
19/02/2019 11:43 pm Campfire Club 2018
We grew fonder and fonder of Transparent Water, the fourhanded album released by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita in February, blending together Caribbean and West African traditions with musical spices coming from all over the world. So, after having reviewed the album, interviewed Seckou Keita and previewed the ongoing UK...
There’s no doubt that Senegalese and Cuban music are threaded together, being intertwined by an entangled knot that goes back generations. There’s no better evidence of this than in the two countries’ music. It’s not by chance that one of the best albums released in 2017 is Transparent Water: a...
19/11/2017 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita Featuring Gustavo Ovalles Milton Court, London
17/11/2017 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm African Night Fever Presents: Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-By-Sea
The concept behind the AfroCubism collaboration is to celebrate and unite some of Mali and Cuba’s hottest musicians and to explore their shared spirit of Afro-Cuban soul. In the Sixties, socialist Mali politics had close links to those of the new communist Cuban government, creating strong ties between the two...
What Colour Is Jazz? @ Chats Palace (London; Saturday 23rd February 2019)
Gipsydelica @ Hootananny (Sunday 24th February) - FREE ENTRY -