African Night Fever: K.O.G
Saturday 23rd November 2024
Ropetackle Arts Centre
Starts 8:00 PM
Kweku Sackey aka K.O.G (Kweku of Ghana) is a multi-dimensional creative force, combining exquisite writing skills with shamanistic live performance, fierce raps, perfectly on pitch singing across a massive vocal range and some absolutely wicked dance moves. Not to mention his skills as a percussionist, arranger, bandleader and art director. A true poet and storyteller, he uses a mix of English, Pidgin and Ga to paint sonic pictures that reach deep into the souls of everyone ready to listen.
Transglobal Underground (Live)
Wednesday 27th November 2024
Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
Starts 7:30 PM
Long known for their scorching live shows, legendary Transglobal Underground are back and coming to Brighton for a very special full live band performance.
Transglobal Underground came into being during the electronic dance scene of the early 90s. Pioneers in the mixing of club culture with world music, their first single Temple Head went Top 30 and their debut album, Dream of 100 Nations top 20. Their seventh album Moonshout picked up a BBC World Music award.
They became best known for their live shows which made them festival favourites and have seen them touring worldwide ever since. Along the way, they've been a DJ collective, a techno soundsystem, a Middle Eastern hit production team, a backing group for an Albanian brass fanfare, a seminar, a medicine show and several things that no one involved would admit to if they could even remember them…
Kanda Bongo Man
Plus Support Liz Ikamba
Thursday 28th November 2024
Hootananny Brixton
Starts 7:00PM
Kanda Bongo Man is one of the biggest stars in world music and one of the leading exponents of Africa, Kanda revolutionised the Congolese favourite music of soukous after parting with Orchestra Belle Mambo to take up a solo career in Paris in 1979.He is most famous for his structural changes he implemented to soukous music with mesmerizing guitar solos that gave birth to the famous” KWASA KWASA” DANCE
Championed by John Peel and Andy Kershaw in the late 80s, Kanda played a key role in introducing African and world music to the mainstream. Now with a huge and loyal fan base, his music still receives regular airplay on stations including BBC Radio 3 and Radio 6 Music.
Kanda’s music has always been driven by optimism and happiness. His exhilarating performances are exciting and energetic yet deeply rooted in the Congolese tradition. With his incredible seven-piece band behind him, don’t miss Kanda Bongo Man bring the joyous music and dance of central Africa for an unforgettable sunshine experience.
African Night Fever - Sura Susso
& Debasmita Bhattacharya
(Kora Meets Sarod)
Friday 6th December 2024
The Brunswick, BN3 1JF
Starts 7:30PM
Master musicians Sura Susso and Debasmita Bhattacharya come togetherfor a rare performance in a trio, playing traditional instruments and weavingmelodies inspired by West African and Northern Indian music,and everywhere in between. Bhattacharya is heralded as one of India’s mostcelebrated performers, while Sura Susso has earned an equivalent accolade
African Night Fever - Afriquoi (Studio Theatre)
Saturday 14th December 2024
Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
Starts 8:00PM
The masterful 5-piece live show combines Gambian kora, Congolese guitar + Mandinka percussion styles with electronic music drawing on house, garage, disco, soul + jungle to create something entirely unique.
Based in London, Afriquoi is a UK afro supergroup, with every musician a band leader in their own right. With members ranging in age across 3 decades, originating from Africa, the Carribean and the UK, Afriquoi is true fusion music in the best sense of the word, bringing together a vast depth of musical knowledge, culture and life experience.
Formed in 2011 out of London’s cultural melting pot, they have established a cult gobal fanbase, loved by fans both of African and electronic music, creating uplifting, dancefloor-friendly new music for a new generation of music fans.
Festive Party Night with Kanda Bongo Man
Friday 20th December 2024
The Horton Epsom
Starts 8:00PM
Kanda Bongo Man is one of the biggest stars in world music and one of the leading exponents of Africa, Kanda revolutionised the Congolese favourite music of soukous after parting with Orchestra Belle Mambo to take up a solo career in Paris in 1979.
He is most famous for his structural changes he implemented to soukous music with mesmerizing guitar solos that gave birth to the famous” KWASA KWASA” DANCE.
Championed by John Peel and Andy Kershaw in the late 80s, Kanda played a key role in introducing African and world music to the mainstream. Now with a huge and loyal fan base, his music still receives regular airplay on stations including BBC Radio 3 and Radio 6 Music.
Kanda’s music has always been driven by optimism and happiness. His exhilarating performances are exciting and energetic yet deeply rooted in the Congolese tradition.
Don Letts feat. Rhoda Dakar
Saturday 12th April 2025
Ropetackle Arts Centre
Starts 8:00PM
African Night Fever, Ropetackle and Easy Skankin present: Don Letts with Rhoda Dakar
Don Letts’ reputation has been firmly established in both the film and music world by a substantial body of work from the late 70s through the 80s, 90s and well into the millennium. His work has been exhibited in The Kitchen N.Y.C, The Institute of Contemporary Art, The N.F.T in London and was honored at Brooklyn’s BAM festival and The Milan Film festival. In March 2003, he won a Grammy for his documentary ‘Westway To The World’.
He came to notoriety in the late 70s as the DJ that single-handedly turned a whole generation of punks onto reggae. It was whilst as a DJ at the first punk club 'The Roxy' in 1977, that Don adopted the punk D.I.Y ethic and begun to make his first film 'The Punk Rock Movie'.
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