Friends,
in these serious times for the people of The Gambia, for our friends and
families, I´m glad to tell you that I among others (sorry to say very few)
really enjoyed the IFANG BONDI the other night here in Copenhagen.
For some few moments we could send our sentiments and thoughts to our
friends and families joined together, weaved /rambled together by these
fantastic musicians, their music, the instruments, the lyrics and words. For
more than two hours they took us back to those happy moments we all
remembered, we spend together in The Gambia where a mixture of different
tribal traditions into music, text, instruments made us all happy,
contemplating our daily life, the families, the traditions, the joy. I had a
wonderful night. Instead of taking the bus back home I decided to take a
long walk, thinking, dreaming, praying that we one day could come together
in the Gambia enjoying Ifang Bondi and each others company as friends.
Discuss and look into a bright future for our beloved country.
Hopefully many of you in Sweden will call each other and come together,
reunite, dance, talk, enjoy, and bring your scandinavian friends. This is
The gambia, when it´s best. And a bit of sunshine from the smiling coast,
where the skies are darkening.
Asbjørn Nordam
on 05/08/00 1:19, Momodou Camara at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> IFANG BONDI - TOUR DATES 2000 - IFANG BONDI - TOUR DATES 2000
> With the first 15,000 km under their belt touring Switzerland, UK, Holland &
> Germany - culminating in a show at London's prestigious Queen Elizabeth Hall
> packed with fans - Gambia's legendary roots pioneers IFANG BONDI are now off
> to
> rock Scandinavia.
>
> Danish fans are in for a special treat: besides a concert in Vega on 4 Aug,
> Ifang Bondi will present a special 'unplugged' traditional show - billed as
> 'TIRAMAKHAN ENSEMBLE' at the Folkets Park on 5 Aug.
>
> The Tiramakhan Ensemble, featuring kora virtuoso Jali Momodou Suso, backed up
> by Badou Jobe on 2nd kora, finds the members of Ifang Bondi equally at home
> with their Manding classics.
>
> Riti wizard Juldeh Camara puts the audience under the spell of his Fulani
> magic
> whilst singer El Hadj Samb gives a sample of awesome Wolof vocalising from the
> pre-mbalax era. West African music tradition at its best and most beautiful!
> To complete the picture Ifang Bondi will do 2 street percussion shows - 'SABAR
> REK' - in which the band's ace percussionist Bassirou Mbaye takes his fellow
> musicians on a break-neck drive along Senegambia's devil rhythms.
>
> Aficionados of deep African grooves are warmly invited to come & dance at any
> of the following concerts:
> 4.8 DK Copenhagen / Vega (9 pm) <>
> 5.8 DK Copenhagen / DGI byen (Images of the World Festival) (3 pm) - Sabar
> Rek percussion <>
> Copenhagen / Folkets Park , Nørrebro (8 pm) - Tiramakhan Ensemble <>
> 6.8 DK Copenhagen / DGI byen (Images of the World Festival) (6 pm) - Sabar
> Rek percussion <>
>
> 10.8 S Gavle / City Fest (9 pm) <>
>
> 11.8 FI Mariehamn-Aland / Kulturnatten (9 pm) <>
>
> 12.8 S Stockholm / Fasching (9 pm) <>
> 15.8 S Malmo / Malmo Festival (8 pm) <>
>
> 18.8 D Hannover / Gambian Night venue & time tba <>
> 19.8 B Bredene / Afro-Caribean Festival Dahliade (7 pm) <>
> 23.8 B Antwerpen / Muziek in de Wijk - De Coninckplein (8 pm) <>
> 24.8 B Antwerpen / Muziek in de Wijk - Stuivenbergplein (8 pm) <>
> 25.8 B Antwerpen / Muziek in de Wijk - Dageraadsplaats (8 pm) <>
> 26.8 B Antwerpen / Muziek in de Wijk - Zandvliet (8 pm) <>
> 27.8 B Antwerpen / Muziek in de Wijk - Klein Dok-Merksem (4 pm) <>
>
> 4.9 NL Leiden / Pieterskerk - Opening Academical Year <>
> 5.9 NL Den Haag / Nieuwspoort - 50 Years African Studies Centre <>
>
> 8.9 CH Zurich / African Culture Festival 'Integration' (11.30 pm) <>
> 16.9 D Rottweil / Kulturfest <>
> 22.9 NL Eindhoven / Muziekcentrum Frits Philips (8 pm) <>
> Check also the following websites:
>
> http://home3.inet.tele.dk/mcamara/cu.html
> http://www.fonline.de/music.and.action/ifangbondi.html
> http://www.dtours.org
>
>
>
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