Sankofa playing at The House of Nsako - Saturday 21 November 2009 - 21h00 (101 High Street, Brixton, Johannsburg)

Dear Music Lover and Sankofa Enthusiast,

We'd love for you to join us for a Sankofa Night. This Afro-Indigenous-Fusion cultural music group are taking Jozi by storm with their Afro-lution (African cultural Revolution in Music)! Sankofa is back at House of Nsako! The fires of Indigenous Africa fused with the passion & intense energy of percussive Afro-Latin America will set the House of Nsako ablaze again. Yes Jozi, we're BACK! 21st November 2009, sure to knock the gumboots off of any hardliner apathetic critic of Jozi’s live music scene….here you can check out some of the pics and vids from the last few outings we’ve had, mostly in wintry Jozi conditions, and if you remember this last winter, you’re obviously not from Jozi, coz it’s HOT now brada!

The name “Sankofa” is an Akan (Ghanaian vernacular) word that means, “We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today”. The band opted to use the name because it believes that one must return to the past in order to move forward. Musical knowledge of the past must be revisited in order to inform the future of musical ideas.

The band is a four piece African Marimbas band, comprising also of African flutes (self-made), the West African Kora Harp, the Madagascan Vahlia string instrument, Mbiras, Jaw Harp, Uhadi and other percussive instruments-agogo, cow bells, rattles, rain stick, djembe’s, congas, bongos. Sankofa’s vision regarding its use of indigenous instruments is to be a dynamic, vibrant vehicle for the cataloging, storing, playing, advancing and evolution of the usage and cross-cultural application of skillful expertise with indigenous instruments, specifically of Africa as a whole, and in a grander perspective, indigenous instruments of the rest of the world. For more information go to the Sankofa profile

See also our YouTube Channel for more videos at SankofaPercussion

Join us at The House of Nsako on Saturday 21st. Surely you’ve heard at night in the Brixton area, the rockets of Afro-madness seizing the streets of the once fearsome brew of uncertainty and violence Brixton unfortunately came to be known for in recent times? A true revolution, cultural in its form, is blossoming, and spiraling rapidly into the hearts of all Brixtonians and Jozians alike…at the House of Nsako, you can expect to receive truly homely African service, both in music quality, general artistic entertainment and food service, as the ever-improving, hottest chill zone in Jozi at the moment continues to inject the right kind of spice into the hearts and souls of those who’ve longed for an intelligent nights cultural experience, and also appreciate the freedom the laid back atmosphere provides after a long day’s slog.

RSVP: Members of the press can RSVP with Jo Hazelhurst by Thursday 18th via email: jo@kalavati.org or Tel: 084500229; otherwise you can call the venue below for bookings.

Venue: THE HOUSE OF NSAKO
101 High Street, Brixton, Jozi Town. Take the Smit Str off ramp from the N1 south. Turn right at the T-junction. Drive past the Garden City Hospital and the Brixton Fire Department. Just past the Pick and Pay Centre look out for ABSA on the left and the house is on the right. Call 072 2232 648 for more info or go to http://www.nsako.co.za/

We'd love to see you there.
Peace
Sankofa