Saturday
Deze Haïtiaanse superband rond de broers Martino komt voor slechts één concert naar België. Naar aanleiding van de verwoestende aardbeving begin dit jaar in Haïti en de heropbouw van het land hebben ze een internationale tour opgezet die hen voor het eerst sedert 2006 terug naar België brengt. T-Vice is een moderne kompaband, kortom het beste Haïtiaanse carnaval!
Toumast means 'Identity' and this band is all about independence, freedom and recognition of their identity. After the decolonization of Africa, the nomadic Tuaregs again were suppressed by regimes in Algeria, Libya, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.
The population of the poor Colombian Chocó region is mainly of African origin and thus their music too.
La Excelencia is one of the most exciting salsa orchestras in the world today, bringing back the ‘salsa dura’ movement and adding a modern vitality and social consciousness to the genre. These revolutionary salsa ambassadors take their bold new sounds, powerful arrangements and free-flowing horns and Afro-Latin percussion to dancers and salsa fans worldwide.
The new super band from Cuba comes to Belgium just for one show this year! The fresh salsa and Cuban timba that singer, composer and trumpeter Alexander Abreu brings together with his 15 young musicians is the living proof of pure top salsa. Just in a few years they have become one of the best new timba bands in Cuba.
An Australian band? Well, besides that this band consists artists with roots in Haiti, Sri Lanka, Latin America and the Caribbean they bring a mix of reggae, funk and afro beat.
La Excelencia is a young salsa band from New York founded by percussionists Jose Vazquez-Cofresi and Julián Silva in 2001. La Excelencia's first album: `Salsa Con Conciencia` was released in 2006, which quickly gained the orchestra respect in the salsa world. La Excelencia is known for both its danceable salsa dura sound, and speaking about social issues in every day life.
Oumou Sangare was born in 1968 in Bamako, the capital of Mali, her family, though, was from Wassoulou, in the southwestern region of Mali. Sangare is the leading female star of Mali. Wassoulou is typified by a strong Arabic feel along with the sound of the scraping karinyang, women play the fle, a calabash strung with cowrie shells, which they spin and throw into the air in time to the music.
When Seun Kuti, the youngest son of the Nigerian legend of Afrobeat and political protest Fela Kuti, comes to the Afro-Latino Festival, he'll be leading on to the stage his father's Egypt 80 band, veterans of a quarter-century of Afrobeat nights.
The young Seun was only 8 when his famous father let him join his legendary Egypt 80 and after Fela's death in 1997, Seun became bandleader at the age of 15 ! So, it took a few years before he finished his first album "Many Things"... in 2008.
