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MENELIK MUSIC PRESENTS
We are now accepting bookings for shows on:
25th January & 29th February -
ANNA MUDEKA (25th Jan 2008) - LIVELY MUSIC from Zimbabwe.
 Anna Mudeka has been a professional singer, dancer, drummer, and Mbira player since the age of fourteen. She has toured Japan with {the late} Ephat Mujuru one of Africa's best-known and respected Mbira players. Anna was also a member of Thomas Mapfumo's Blacks Unlimited. She has worked and performed with a number of well known Zimbabwean musicians such as Chartwell Dutiro, Wedzerai Zvirevo, Torera Mpedzisi and many others. In Zimbabwe she is best known for her energetic dance performances with Thomas Mapfumo and with Idwala Elikhulu a fifteen-piece dance group. Since coming to the UK in 1995, she has assembled the group BabaSimba to perform both traditional and original modern Zimbabwean music. Anna has also toured with Zimba, Sangoma an Mbira based band, the Batanai Marimba Ensemble, and she has performed many times with Chartwell Dutiro's Spirit Talk Mbira. In Anna put together a second band called Svikiro, for a nation wide tour, she still performs with BabaSimba, holds workshops widely and does many solo performances based around Mbira. Anna has recorded three CD albums "Chirungu, Rwendo Nevadzimu and Cham'tengure". Cambridge is eagerly waiting and expecting yet another major storm, and guess? We will all be in its eye.
KASAI MASAI (29th Feb 2008) - LIVELY MUSIC from around Africa.
Based in London and led by Voodoo King Nickens Nkoso, Kasaï Masaï brings us the Traditional Sound of the most remote equatorial villages with a Urban Twist. The band is a 5 piece outfit, consisting of d'jembe, guitar, saxophone, bass and drum. To add that extra exotic touch they are also joined occasionally by a balafon player, a MC and one or two female dancers!
"...Kasaï Masaï successfully marry a respect for vintage grooves with an overwhelming urge to move the dance floor. This is the sound of the old and the new, of the countryside and the city, from deep in the heart of Africa..." Nige Tassell - Reading Womad Festival.
Named after a river, Kasai lies in the heart of the rain forest where many tribes such as the Pygmies still maintain their traditional lifestyles. The Masai, just like the Baka, are another dignified tribe whose lives still centre around a nomadic existence.
Please note: Bands are on at 9pm and play two sets of fifty (50) minutes with a fifteen (15) minute break between the sets.
PRICESAREASFOLLOWS:
£12/£14 at the door/£10 Members & Conc.
£20 with meal/£15 Members & Conc.
PLEASE NOTE:
For meals bookings must be made in advance (cheque to get to us at least 5 days before the show). Send an email with details of number of people you are booking for to: theodore15@btinternet.com or call 07842 177 344.
PAYING BY CHEQUE:
Please send your cheques addressed to MenelikMusic at:
MenelikMusic
c/o Centre at St Paul's
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 1JP
ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT METHOD:
You can now book via the JUNCTION BOX OFFICE, please call the box office on: 01223 511511 or book online at www.junction.co.uk
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John Quysner, 15/01/2008 |
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