10/10/2023
🎉 Cultural Connections Celebration Day 🎉
Saturday 21 October, 11:00 - 16:30 | Free
National Museum of Scotland
As part of our wider activities for the October school holidays and our week-long series of Cultural Connections events at the National Museum of Scotland, join us one month today alongside local musicians, dancers and artists as we celebrate connections to Africa and the Caribbean.
Find out more: https://www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-events/events/national-museum-of-scotland/october-half-term-cultural-connections/
Full programme for Saturday 21 October:
African Maua – 'Drum Chronicles'
11:00 - 11:20
Presented by African Maua, 'Drum Chronicles' is a play that tells the story of Djembe, an African Drum with a soul. Djembe travels through Africa and African diaspora exploring the history of the drum in the continent. Presented by a diverse cast, this play is a story of African drumming as a movement of resistance blend of African cultural expressions.
Davie Luhangah
11:30 - 12:00
Luhangah is a Malawian Singer Songwriter based in Edinburgh. His sweet and melodic African rhythms will take you to places you have never been before.
Ronald Raymond McDonald – Garifuna drumming
12:15 - 12:45
Experience the engaging rhythms and songs of Garifuna drumming and music from Belize. Distinct from better known steel drum and djembe rhythms and music, this performance will feature traditional Garifuna songs and rhythms performed by professional Belizean drummer Ronald Raymond McDonald.
DJ set from JamboRadio Scotland
12:45 - 13:45
Get set for some lunchtime tunes, from the only radio station for people of African and Caribbean heritage in Scotland.
Adie Baako Dance
13:45 - 14:15
Adie Baako - a professional dancer from Ghana – will be performing a social dance from Accra called Kpanlogo. Then join in as Adie teaches you the steps to dance it yourself!
Rise Kagona's Jit Jive music
14:30 - 15:00
Rise Kagona is the founder and lead guitarist of the world-famous band from Zimbabwe, The Bhundu Boys. Rise composes all his own music, and many of his songs became hits back home in Zimbabwe. Flowing through his music are infectious Jiti rhythms, which in his duo are played by Ugandan-born Andy Cooke on Ghanaian kpanlogo drums, and Ugandan akogo (thumb piano).
House of Jack - AfroHouse Dance
15:15 - 15:45
Afro House is an energetic dance style that derives from Kuduro, an Angolan dance style and is also inspired - among other styles - by Pantsula, a dance style developed in South Africa. Afro House is a playful and expressive mix of different African dance genres that can be easily learned and danced by all.
Samba Sene & Diwan
16:00 - 16:30
Exuberant fusion of funky mbalax/Afrobeat grooves, with irresistible dance beats, undercurrents of ska, rock and Senegalese soul. Original songs by charismatic Senegalese singer Samba Sene.
This event is part of Black History Month 2023, and supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Image: Rise Kagona and and Andy Cooke of the Jit Jive Duo. Courtesy of the artists.
