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Stewart Sukuma & Banda Nkhuvu
Stewart Sukuma is a gifted musician, singer, and composer from the small village of Cuamba in the Mozambican state of Niassa. Together with Banda Nkhuvu, an 8-piece Afropop Jazz band, Sukuma combines traditional and contemporary Mozambican music styles and instrumentation to create an energetic fusion of Jazz and Afropop.
As well read more
Super Maya Baikoko
Baikoko has recently become one of the most favoured night entertainments around Dar es Salaam. Baikoko groups play in roadside bars, at weddings or as an added attraction for ‘modern taarab’ nights. The young man who started this recent craze is Juma Hussein, also known as “Maya”.
Baikoko originated in the read more
Taarab - Kidumbak Group
Launched at Zanzibar’s Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA) in 2014 and comprising of DCMA teachers and students, the Taarab - Kidumbak Group was formed to participate in a competition to tour in America. Since then, they participated in three highly acclaimed tours in the summer of 2015. The first read more
Taffetas
The intoxicating Taffetas sound is built around the kora (West African harp-like instrument) and the Swiss duo of Marc Liebeskind (guitar) and Christophe Erard (double bass), who also take the compositional credits. Their shows in Zanzibar will feature Cheikh "Nana" Sisokko (Guinea Bissau) on kora and Fatoumata Dembele (Burkina Faso) read more
Tamimu
Tamimu Mshauri Salum is a young, talented, and energetic musician from Bagamoyo, a coastal town north of Dar es Salaam, who flutters the flag of Singeli music in Tanzania.
His first song, “Sifa ya Mwanamke,” was released in 2019. Its success saw the track being played all over the media as read more
Tandaa Traditional Group
This exciting experimental collaboration, only recently established in 2011, is one of its kind, lead by talented Zanzibari musician and composer Juma Begu. The tandaa is a traditional flute, similar to the zumari. It is typically played alongside ngoma drums in the island’s umundi dance, used to purge evil read more