Vula Viel + Jyotsna Srikanth

Doors: Doors at 6pm
Entry Price: £5 Advance | £7 Door
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A real treat awaits those who attend the final Darkly Artful of 2014, as two very diverse acts of astounding musicality will be taking to the Jamboree stage

VULA VIEL: /v?’la vi:’?l/

Vula Viel means Good is Good in Dagaare, the language of the tribe in Upper West Ghana where Bex Burch lived and played music for 3 years. Now it is the name of Bex’s new group with London’s finest musicians: Jim Hart, Dan Nicholls, Tom Challenger, George Crowley, Dave Smith, Simon Roth, Dave De Rose and Stephen Burke.

www.VulaViel.com
Live at Friday Tonic, Southbank Centre, 3rd October 2014

The band, based around the Gyil (the Dagaare xylophone made of sacred lliga wood and buzzing gourd resonators) brings the powerful ancient Dagaare music to an original and exciting western sound. Vibes compliment the gyil and bass keys, two drummers hold down and thrash out the nucleus of rhythm and the wailing sax on top is the voice of the Dagaare songs.

Seeing is believing with this band, and you’ll be glad you came, to find that good is most certainly good.

JYOTSNA SRIKANTH

“..Jyotsna Srikanth is an extraordinary and versatile violinist… free-flowing, often mesmerising 4****stars”
– The Guardian, July 2013

“..Britain’s finest violinist of Indian classical music” 
– Time Out

Rooted in South Indian musical traditions, composer and violin virtuoso Jyotsna Srikanth seamlessly combines Indian & Western classical and contemporary styles. Internationally, she has collaborated with acclaimed artists from around the world. Here she performs with Shadrach Solomon (piano/keyboards), and Manjunath NS (drums/ethnic percussion), both based in India.

http://www.indianviolin.eu/Jyotsna.html

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Delicious home made Ethiopian food will once again be available all evening in the courtyard courtesy of our friends at Kaffa Coffee in Gillet Square