Jaliyaa Kumbengo is a West African cultural experience featuring 3 core activities: Live Performance, a participatory workshop, and a photographic exhibition exploring griot heritage and storytelling.
In Mandinka, 'Jaliyaa' refers to the griot tradition - a living practice of music, oral history and cultural memory passed through generations, while 'Kumbengo' translates as coming together or gathering. Together, the group name reflects both heritage and shared experience, which is at the heart of the evening.
The evening programme combines:
* A FREE 1 hour interactive workshop from 6.30pm-7.30pm, exploring kora, voice and collective improvisation (open to all levels). Participants are welcome to bring their own percussion/melody instrument, or simply join in through voice and singing.
The workshop is optional and free to attend, but YOU MUST RESERVE A PLACE via the ticket options above in addition to booking a general ticket for the performance.
* A pop-up photographic exhibition tracing Sefo's musical lineage and journey.
* A live performance from this 5 piece West African group blending traditional Mande music with contemporary influences. Concert begins at 8.30pm
ARTISTS:
Sefo Kanuteh is a virtuosic kora and balafon player from Foray Kunda, The Gambia, raised within a multi-generational griot family where music functions as storytelling, social connection and collective memory.
Sefo has collaborated with leading international artists including Baaba Maal and The BKO quintet.
Jali Musa Jobarteh is a vocalist, kora player and multi-instrumentalist from the renowned Jobarteh griot lineage in The Gambia.
His acolades include Best Kora Musician (2021) at the Kora festival in The Gambia.
The concert programme and tour is supported by Arts Council England.
Tour producers Music Worldwide & Gandaia Arts
For further information about Sefo Kanuteh visit www.sefokanuteh.com
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