Set against the backdrop of the historic Glynde Place, Love Supreme has rapidly taken its place amongst the elite summer festivals in the UK. Now in its 6th year, the festival has regularly procured big names in the world of jazz and soul music, and this year is no different....
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29/06/2018 - 01/07/2018 12:00 am Love Supreme Festival 2018 Glynde Place, Lewes
Songhoy Blues return to London to play a much-anticipated gig at Kentish Town’s O2 Forum on Friday the 25th of January. The Malian blues group is now well-known due to their unique yet accessible sound and in part due to their tumultuous formation – the band members left their home...
25/01/2018 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Songhoy Blues O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
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Back in 2013, the story of Songhoy Blues made the headlines. After being forced to move to Bamako by a jihadist group that banned music in northern Mali, Garba Touré founded the band “to recreate that lost ambience of the north and make all the refugees relive those northern songs”....
16/07/2017 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Songhoy Blues: Summer Series At Somerset House Somerset House, London
If your music is strong enough to overcome religious fundamentalism and exile, how can a narrow-minded visa denial possibly harm it? That’s why Songhoy Blues, without their original bass player (who was stuck in Bamako because of an issue with his documents) performed a show to remember at Omeara. Introduced expertly,...
