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Batuki Music Society presents a special concert on Black History Month featuring traditional African music rooted in spiritualism at the Alliance Francaise de Toronto.
This concert will portray the spiritual side of African music and a transition to today’s modern popular music influenced by western tradition and gospel. You will be treated to an evening of soulful music from Sub-Saharan Africa ranging from; Ethiopian spirituals, Guinean griot, Ghanaian highlife and gospel, South Sudanese spirituals, Congolese rumba, to Zimbabwean spirit music.
The lineup includes some of the finest female singers in the city such as; Blandine Mbiya, Jeli Katenen ‘Cheka’ Dioubate, Ruth Mathiang, Evelyn Mukwedeya, Memory Makuri, Netsanet Mellesse, and Frederica Ackah, backed by an equally talented band consisting of Kofi Ackah on drums and percussion, Donne Roberts on guitar, Tichaona Maredza on rhythm guitar, Quandoe Harrison on bass guitar and keyboards, Fantahun Shewankechow Mekonnen on acoustic krar, Ruben Esguerra on congas and Amadou Kienou on djembe.
Tickets $20 Advance / $25 at Door
Advance tickets available at:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/spiritual-songs-of-sub-saharan-africa-tickets-6899084347
Soundscapes – 572 College St.
African Drum & Art Crafts – 618 Dundas St. West
New Bilan Restaurant – 183 Dundas St. East
Hidden Thrifty Store – 26 Roncesvalles
Doors open at 7:00 PM / Show at 8:00 PM
info@batukimusic.com
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