| Date & Hour: Saturday 29th, 7.00pm |
| Line Up: Niwel Tsumbu (guitar), Eamon Cagney (percussion). |
West Africa has a great guitarist tradition, and Congolese Niwel Tsumbu is a fitting ambassador to carry that torch.
Raised on the traditional Soukous and Rhumba music of his homeland, he began playing from an early age, and went on to study both jazz and classical guitar - enrolling secretly in a classical music school where he also studied saxophone for a year.
The leader of several bands, including Sumu, Motema and Jazmu, who attracted widespread acclaim when they appeared at the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Culture, Niwel is truly a musical innovator.
Drawing his influences from far and wide, his elegant and fluent guitar playing feature draw expression from his past experiences with African rhythyms, rhumba, jazz, classical, and much more besides.
He is accompanied for this Town Hall recital by the Cork based percussionist Eamon Cagney. |
