It might not be the same as enjoying their set under a stage, dancing to and experiencing first-hand their visionary Afro-Latin percussion-led sound, but you can still make the most of and revel in Penya‘s dreamy and inspiring vibes in our current locked down times. How? For example, attending, wherever...
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For our first online event of 2021, we went the extra mile, in the true sense of the word, and ended up in Nepal! On Sunday, we took a three-hour trip to Nepal to experience its sounds and stories and have a sneak peek into its culture. You can now...
We will always be grateful to music for keeping on allowing us to travel even in these days of lockdowns and bans. So, for our first online event of 2021, we went the extra mile, in the true sense of the word, and ended up in Nepal! On Sunday, we...
In times like this, we are all in desperate need for something able to inspire us and let our minds wander. Afro-Cuban experimental project Ariwo artists were already very capable of doing that before the Covid madness, but now they’ve topped up their offer with a brand-new show blending together...
If on Sunday, you missed out our full-immersion in North African and Middle Eastern sounds, worry not! Head to our YouTube channel where you can fully re-catch the seven- hour-long online stream event organised together with our friends at University of Tropical Sound and featuring sets by Hazem Berrabah, Samedia Shebeen,...
Been a while since last time we travelled and will be a while until the next one. So, let music help us once again to virtually escape and get far away from our home and neighbourhood, at least for a few hours. On Sunday 29th, from 3PM GMT, join us on...
The EFG London Jazz Festival goes fully online for its 2020 edition and among many high highlights produced by the good people at Serious is the all star band of the London jazz scene SEED Ensemble fronted by award winning alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi. Live streamed from The Barbican, Kinoshi’s...
We all know that we won’t be able to travel to South-East Asia for a while, however, thanks to the Korean Cultural Centre and Serious, we are going to be blessed with a two-week-long cultural travel corridor between South Korea and the UK. Starting from Friday 30th of October, the...
With all the appropriate measures and better safe than sorry…still, in a week’s time, we will be back just a few metres from a stage. After almost seven months, we are thrilled and ready to finally invite you again to a gig! Might be small, intimate and socially distanced, still...
After months and months of “virtual” events, we are more than thrilled to finally restart writing about a “physical” one featuring a good and proper institution of the UK scene celebrating its 50th anniversary. Since the mid-50’s, Teddy Osei has spread the Ghanaian highlife bug far and wide, but it’s...