Grupo Lokito re-connects Latin and Congolese music in an exuberant explosion of sound. Cuban Rumba was a hot trend in West-African music in the 50s, and the group brings this style back to life with their own fresh take on it.

Lokito features ‘world-famous at home’ guitarists Burkina Faso & Limousine, Kinshasa-based singer and dancer José Hendrix Ndelo and top salsa pianist Sara McGuinness, fusing their extensive experience in their respective musical traditions into a new and exciting style that can only be classified as ‘Lokito’. With a charming sweetness to their sound, a relaxed yet infectious groove and cool soukous dance routines, Lokito are simply irresistible.

www.grupolokito.co.uk

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Festival Files: Africa Oyé (Sefton Park, Liverpool; Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th June 2023)

With summer on the horizon, the festival season is rapidly approaching, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to revive our Festival Files section and introduce you to the most exhilarating events happening throughout the UK in the coming months. To kick off this series, there is no better festival to…

Artists: Aloghte Oho , Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy , Effra , Fra! , Grupo Lokito , Kimi Djabate , Ni Maxine , Seun Kuti , Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 , Soukustek , Tanya Stephens , Veeby , ZieZie

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #531 – Seven Wisdoms Of Groove

This week Radio Mukambo brings you two albums that came out before the summer but that somehow haven’t made it to the “album of the week”. So here they are: Seven Wisdoms Of Plutonia by Alpacas Collective, Afro-groovers from Leuven, Belgium, and La Ñapa by The Bongo Hop, Afro-Caribbean collective from Lyon,…

Artists: Alpacas Collective , Azuka Moweta and his Anioma Brothers , Colombiafrica , Conjunto Media Luna , Grupo Lokito , Gyedu-Blay Ambolley , Louis Towers , Muyiwa Kunnuji , Osemako , Piper Street Sound , Romperayo , The Bongo Hop