JUMATANO GROOVE WOMEN LED SPECIAL

JUMATANO GROOVE WOMEN LED SPECIAL: The Zawose Queens (TZ) @zawosequeens

Back from a whirlwind tour around Europe, promoting their much anticipated first album Maisha, you will find there is spirit and fire in the music of The Zawose Queens. There are the vibrations of the ancestors, coming through on traditional instruments — soaring chizeze fiddle, buzzing illimba thumb piano, Ngoma drums that chatter and thunder — and voices that go deep, high and out there. There’s the connection to nature, to ceremony and ritual, in their dance-inspired fusion, their blend of the organic, harmonic and modern-day electronic. There are lyrics that tell, in their native kigogo, of the passion for music, and the wonders of life. Of pride in environment, in tradition. In their East African roots.

Maisha, the debut album by The Zawose Queens, marks the first time that women from this famous musical family take their place as lead vocalists and performers and we can’t wait to behold the marvel of these musically radical queens taking stage at Jumatano Groove.

RECAP
On Wednesday, 18th of September at 7:30 pm
At the Alliance Française of Dar es Salaam
Free Entrance