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LAMF 2013 Brochure draft 3:Layout 1 02/08/2013 17:28 Page 1 THE th 11 14 VENUES LONDON AFRICAN ACROSS LONDON MUSIC FESTIVAL “e London African Music Festival FRIDAY 13th to SUNDAY 22nd is an impressively eclectic affair” SEPTEMBER 2013 Robin Denselow, the Guardian www.thelondonafricanmusicfestival.com 2013 LINE-UP OSIBISA | ORLANDO JULIUS AND THE HELIOCENTRICS | SISTER FA | FREDY MASSAMBA | QUEEN SALAWA ABENI and THE YORUBA WOMEN CHOIR | AKIM EL SIKAMEYA | JAQEE | KASAI MASAI | CLEVELAND WATKISS AND THE HEADS AND FEET HOUSE BAND | ADJOA | M3NSA | GUY SCHALOM AND THE BALADI BLUES ENSEMBLE | MALICK PATHÉ SOW and BAO SISSOKO | LEKAN BABALOLA AND THE AFROBEAT MESSENGERS | TONY KOFI'S FUTURE PASSED TRIO | SON YAMBU | MIRYAM SOLOMON | ELMI ALI | THE VENUS BUSHFIRES | MUNTU VALDO | HANISHA SOLOMON | NIRAN OBASA | MODOU TOURE | FAMILY ATLANTICA | FILMPHONICS with DAT and ATONGO ZIMBA | FOFOULAH | MINN JIARABI | TUNDAY AKINTAN | NAMVULA | THE FONTANELLES | KING MASCO | DJ GREEN PAPI | ACOUSTIC AFRICA WITH MOSI CONDE | NOO SARO-WIWA | BUMI THOMAS | ROGER ROBINSON | BELINDA ZHAWI | INUA ELLAMS | | MULELE MATONDO AFRICA AND CONGO DIA NTOTILA www.joyfulnoise.co.uk | [email protected] Tel: 07956 227 012 / 020 7328 9613 LAMF 2013 Brochure draft 3:Layout 1 02/08/2013 17:28 Page 2 Laura Mills Produc0ons, Graeme Mill at One WELCOME Tree Music as well as venues like Richmix and Hideaway. I am par0cularly looking forward to The 11th London African Music Fes0val takes our first fes0val produc0ons at the Forge and place in 14 venues across London. The majority The Flyover Portobello. of the ar0sts are performing in London for the first 0me or are making their fes0val debut. Some of the names here might be new to you. The adventure here is hearing new things and We present London debut concerts for giving new names a hearing. Believe me they Congolese soul singer FREDY MASSAMBA, are musicians that deserve a1en0on. Ugandan singer JAQEE, Senegalese rapper SISTER FA and Ethiopian singer HANISHA Let me take this opportunity to ask you to join SOLOMON. our mailing list by visi0ng our website on www.joyfulnoise.co.uk. Making their fes0val debut are rapper M3NSA, Eritrean singer MIRYAM SOLOMON, Somalian Joining our E-list allows us to inform you of our poet ELMI ALI, Pan-African-Bri0sh band THE other concerts and tours across the UK. Most VENUS BUSHFIRES, Cuban band SON YAMBU, importantly it gives you the opportunity to buy percussionist GUY SCHALOM’S acclaimed an advance 0cket on a seat that gives you the project with Egyp0an master musicians, UK’s best viewing and hearing pleasure. premier jazz vocalist CLEVELAND WATKISS leading an all star band THE HEADS AND FEET This year’s fes0val is funded again by a grant HOUSE BAND, Afro-La0n group FAMILY from the Arts Council England’s Grant For The ATLANTICA, jazz singer ADJOA, soul singer Arts scheme. We thank everyone at the ACE for NAMVULA and afrobeat specialists THE their con0nuous support. FONTANELLES and FOFOULAH. The 12th London African Music Fes0val will run Two legendary figures of Nigerian music present from Friday 19th to Sunday 28th September unique projects. Saxophonist and composer 2014. ORLANDO JULIUS joins forces with the Bri0sh group THE HELIOCENTRICS for a night of You can always drop me a line on issues afrocentric grooves and Nigeria's greatest regarding the fes0val on female singer QUEEN SALAWA ABENI meets [email protected] THE YORUBA WOMEN CHOIR for the first 0me. Making welcome visits are the legendary OSIBISA, Algerian violinist AKIM EL SIKAMEYA, percussionist LEKAN BABALOLA, blues guitarist MUNTU VALDO, jazz and afro funk saxophonists TONY KOFI and TUNDAY AKINTAN. This year sees us collabora0ng with producers like Focus Organisa0on, Feferity, Open the Gate, BIYI ADEPEGBA Artistic Director 2 LAMF 2013 Brochure draft 3:Layout 1 02/08/2013 17:28 Page 3 THE 2013 VENUES AND ARTISTS THE HIDEAWAY CARGO Sat 21st Sept 2 Empire Mews, SW16 2ED 83 Rivington Street, TONY KOFI'S FUTURE Fri 13th and Sat 14th Sept London, EC2A 3AY PASSED TRIO OSIBISA Wed 18th Sept Sun 22nd Sept Mon 16th Sept JAQEE (Uganda) HANISHA SOLOMON TUNDAY AKINTAN THE FORGE HACKNEY ATTIC QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL 3-7DelanceyStreet,NW17NL 270 Mare Street, E8 1HE Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX Sun 15th Sept Fri 13th Sept Thu 19th Sept MIRYAM SOLOMON MODOU TOURE QUEEN SALAWA ABENI ELMI ALI Sun 15th Sept and THE YORUBA WOMEN Tue 17th Sept FILMPHONICS with CHOIR THE VENUS BUSHFIRES DAT and ATONGO ZIMBA Fri 20th Sept Sat 21st Sept JAZZ CAFÉ MULELE MATONDO AFRIKA FOFOULAH 5 Parkway, NW1 7PG CONGO DIA NTOTILA MINN JIARABI Sun 15th Sept AKIM EL SIKAMEYA THE FLYOVER PORTOBELLO UPSTAIRS AT THE RITZY Sun 22nd Sept 3-5 Thorpe Close, Brixton Oval, SW2 1JG CLEVELAND WATKISS AND London, W10 5XL Fri 13th Sept THE HEADS AND FEET Thu 19th Sept FAMILY ATLANTICA HOUSE BAND BOOK SLAM V LAMF Sun 15th Sept Fri 20th Sept NAMVULA RICHMIX SISTER FA Fri 20th Sept 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, Sat 21st Sept THE FONTANELLES E1 6LA FREDY MASSAMBA Fri 13th Sept Sun 22nd Sept BAR 414 GUY SCHALOM and MUNTU VALDO 414 Coldharbour Lane, THE BALADI BLUES SW9 8LN ENSEMBLE THE VORTEX JAZZ CLUB Sun 22nd Sept Sat 14th Sept 11 Gille1 Square, N16 8AZ KING MASCO ORLANDO JULIUS Fri 13th Sept AND THE HELIOCENTRICS MALICK PATHÉ SOW and JACOBEAN MANSION BAO SISSOKO HOUSE NEW EMPOWERING Sat 14th Sept Charlton House, CHURCH ADJOA Charlton Road, 1a Westgate Street, E8 3RL Fri 20th Sept London, SE7 8RE Sat 14th Sept LEKAN BABALOLA Fri 13th Sept M3NSA AND THE AFROBEAT ACOUSTIC AFRICA Sat 21st Sept MESSENGERS WITH MOSI CONDE SON YAMBU DJ Green Papi 3 LAMF 2013 Brochure draft 3:Layout 1 02/08/2013 17:28 Page 4 Friday 13th and Friday 13th September, Saturday 14th September, 7.30pm 7.30pm GUY SCHALOM OSIBISA (Ghana) and THE BALADI BLUES THE HIDEAWAY ENSEMBLE (Egypt) 2 Empire Mews, London, SW16 2ED RICHMIX Tickets: £15.00 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA Bookings: 020 8835 7070 Tickets: £12.50/£10.00 http://www.hideawaylive.co.uk Bookings: 020 7613 7498 www.richmix.org.uk FormedinLondonbythreeGhanaianandthreeCaribbean musicians in 1969 Osibisa joined jazz, funk, Caribbean, Percussionist Guy Schalom re-unites an all-star team of R&B, Latin and African rhythms together to create Egyptianmastermusiciansincludingthefoundingfather something that changed the world. of modern Baladi, the supreme SHEIK TAHA for their This legendarybandhasmade 20studio albums and festival debut to perform the street music of Egypt played a central role in developing an awareness of known as Baladi. African music among European and North American Emerging in the early 20th Century through audiences in the 70s. Their major hits include 'Music for migration of rural musicians to the cities of Cairo & Gong Gong', 'Sunshine Day', 'Dance the Body Music,' Alexandria, this“cultural collision”exposed traditional 'Coffee Song' and“Woyaya”amongst many others. folk musicians to aWestern sensibility, creating a newly The founder memberswereTeddy Osei (saxophone), sophisticated hybrid genre. Sol Amarfio (drums), MacTontoh (trumpet), Spartacus R The celebrated ensemble are transcending (bass), Robert Bailey (keyboards), Wendel Richardson traditions,takingEgyptianBaladitonewheights!Leader (lead guitar) and Lasisi Amao (percussion & tenor sax). Guy Schalom (darabuka) is joined by SheikTaha (quarter Tonight we join the God fathers of world music as tone accordion); Ahmed El Saidi (oriental sax); Aly el they celebrate the 40th anniversary of their soundtrack Minyawi (duff and doholla); Adam Warne (riq and for the Seventies cult film "SuperflyTNT". doholla). Special guest is the great vocalist and oud master OSIBISAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0q-FZG7q70 ABDUL SALAM KHEIR. Produced by ONE TREE PRODUCTIONS GUY SCHALOM & THE BALADI BLUES ENSEMBLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbVbzIYUtM 4 LAMF 2013 Brochure draft 3:Layout 1 02/08/2013 17:28 Page 5 Friday 13th September, Friday 13th September, 8.00pm 7.30pm MALICK PATHÉ SOW and FAMILY ATLANTICA BAO SISSOKO (Senegal) (Venezuela) + Niran Obasa (solo piano) + Afro-Palace DJs THE VORTEX JAZZ CLUB 11 Gillett Square, London, N16 8AZ UPSTAIRS AT THE RITZY Tickets: £12.50/£10.00 (cons) Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JG Bookings: 020 7254 4097 Tickets: £6.00 (adv) | £8.00 (door) www.vortexjazz.co.uk Bookings: 020 7326 2615 www.upstairsattheritzy.co.uk Malick Pathé Sow and Bao Sissoko are true masters of Venezuela's Family Atlantica are an amazing new psyco- Senegalese traditional music. Their CD “ADUNA” tropical project and a musical expedition that spans two continents across the Atlantic Ocean. Their impressive debut (Muziekpublique/Discovery)wasoneoftheAfricanmusic album“Family Atlantica”(Soundway Records) fuses African highlights of last year, winning influential magazine rhythms,whichinitiallypermeatedtheglobethroughtheslave SONGLINES ALBUM OFTHEYEAR 2012. trade and their intricate relationship with Latin music is thoroughlyexploredandcelebrated. Vocalist Sow started out in Baaba Maal's band and plays the hoddu (desert lute), while Bao Sissoko is a virtuoso Theirs is a heady blend of Cuban rumba Venezuelan tambor on the most sublime ofWest African instruments, the 21- andtonada,Ghanaianhighlife,Ethiopianbluesandcalypso, string kora. along with a multitude of other styles, a testament to the relationshipofLondon-bornJackYglesiasandVenezuelanwife This duo creates a heart-warming and magical LuzmiraZerpa. performance where the soft sounds of African harps and lutes weave together and blend naturally with the warm FAMILY ATLANTICA are : LUZMIRA ZERPA, vocals, JACK and welcoming voice of Sow.Together