The Jazz Warriors International announce the return of their Popular Nexus/One World music series with the last one for this year another special evening is promised..

Nexus – One World Music at St Georges Bloomsbury.

Sona Jobarteh (Kora/Cello)                                          

Waka Hasegawa (piano)     Troupe Collective,                                                    

Thursday 7th November Doors 6.00pm  Tickets £10 at the door, £8 advance booking,                £6 concession For tickets rings 020 7242 1976 or concerts@stgb.org.uk                                       

Sona Jobarteh - Female Kora Virtuoso

Sona Jobarteh is the first female Kora virtuoso from a prestigious West African Griot family, coming from a long line of hereditary musicians. She is the granddaughter of the master Griot Amadu Bansang Jobarteh and cousin to the celebrated Kora maestro Toumani Diabaté. As a multi- instrumentalist, singer, composer and producer Sona works with musicians from around the world. As a versatile artist Sona has collaborated as a singer, guitarist and Kora player with highly-respected musicians such as Cleveland Watkiss, Oumou Sangaré, Kasse Mady Diabaté, Toumani Diabaté, Sambou Suso, Juldeh Camara, and Damon Albarn. Sona is also a member of the African Classical Music Ensemble which tours worldwide under the leadership of composer Tunde Jegede.                                                              www.sonajobarteh.com

                                                            
Waka Hasegawa..
Having established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed piano duo Piano 4 Hands with the British pianist Joseph Tong, Waka Hasegawa is also much in demand as a soloist. She has given recitals in various venues in UK, America, Europe and Japan as well as giving broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, BBC World Service and WFMT Radio Chicago. Waka also enjoys performing new works and has worked with many composers including Dai Fujikura, Nicola LeFanu, John McCabe, Edwin Roxburgh and many more to name. She has recently recorded some solo piano works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to celebrate his centenary this year and it will be released from Naxos America later this year. “..one of Dutilleux’s piano preludes, ‘Le jeu des contraires’ was a keenly delineated play of opposites, as if the textures of Debussy’s piano music had been fantastically enhanced…” – The Guardian. 

http://www.wakahasegawa.com                                                                        

Troupe: 

A Line in the Sand: A Hundred Years since World War One “Once upon a time the world was round and you could go on it around and around. Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there were men, women, children…” (Gertrude Stein) A work about shifting identities and the real and imagined journeys of war, told through stories of courage, suffering and adventure, from the sorrow of Ivor Gurney to the glitter and intrigue of Mata Hari. Brought to life by dance, physical theatre and spoken word, Troupe’s commemorative concert features chamber works for voice, strings, flute and piano by Debussy, Kodaly, Handel, Gurney, Cage and Ives. Catherine Carter – voice, Jessie Maryon-Davies – piano, Sophie Rivlin – cello, Kate Wakeling – dance www.troupecollective.co.uk

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