Posts filed under 'concerts'
Concert: Asylum No More, Nov 27 2009 @ Alliance
ASYLUM-NO-MORE
Sam Ondieki and the Bakowola Band
Friday 27 November, 7pm
Alliance Française gardens,
Tickets: 500/-
A cocktail of high powered ethno fusion music from Sam Ondieki’s two albums ‘Monto Monene’ and ‘His Excellency’.
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Concert: Dela’s album launch, Nov 20 2009 @ National Museum
Sorry – very last minute
Welcome tonight at National Museum for the launch of the much anticipated debut album of Dela’s
400ksh at the gate
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Concert: Sauti Sol Unplugged, Nov 14 2009 @ Club Galileo
After a successfull European tour, Sautil Sol brings the Soul back home for their fans in partnership with KISS FM/TV in a show dubbed ‘UNPLUGGED’. For more information, visit www.penyafrica.com
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Concert: Spotlight on Kenyan Music – Final 2009, Nov 13 2009 @ Alliance
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Concert: KONIKIEWICZ@TRANSGROOVE, Nov 10 2009 @ Italian Cultural Institute
The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Nairobi would like to invite you for a jazz concert
KONIKIEWICZ@TRANSGROOVE
on Tuesday, 10th November 2009, at 18.30
at the Italian Cultural Institute in Nairobi
Italian Cultural Institute in Nairobi
Grenadier Tower
Woodvale Grove – Westlands
(Opposite Jacaranda Hotel)
Wojciech Konikiewicz, born 1956, is a rare example of a person whose educational background includes studies in classical music, piano, composition, technology, electroacoustics. Konikiewicz has a well-established position in several fields of activity especially as a: Composer – he creates music from works for symphony & chamber orchestra, choir, string quartet, reed trio, saxophone and piano, saxophone and organ, harp and organ etc. to progressive jazz, experimental, electronic, ambient, ethno and sacral pieces.
“…excellent Konikiewicz”
John Fordham, The Guardian
“one of the most interesting, most open and creative musicians of Polish jazz”
Bohdan Chmura, Jazz Forum
more info about KONIKIEWICZ@TRANSGROOVE: http://free.art.pl/konikiewicz/main_eng.html
Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Red Hill Road, 00100 Nairobi
P.O. Box 30086
tel. +254 20 7120221
fax. +254 20 7120106
email ambnairo@kenyaweb.com
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Concert: Ratai Arati in Ethnofusion, Nov 6 2009 @ Italian Cultural Centre
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Battle of the Bands, Nov 7 2009 @ GoDown
Battle of The Bands is a rock concert with a unique concept. The performing bands are actually competing or ‘BATTLING’ if you may, to see who will be crowned supreme at the end of the show, and walk away with the grand, cash prize.
This annual edition dubbed, SHOWDOWN @ THE GODOWN 2, is a follow up to the first edition held at The GoDown Arts Centre in September of 2008.
On Saturday, November 7th 2009, elleven (11) of Nairobi’s hottest and loudest rock bands will be ‘BATTLING’ it out at the GoDown Arts Centre from 1.00p.m to 7.00p.m.
Mics will be drawn and guitars held steady as – BLOODSHED, DOVE SLIMME, JASON & JAZZ, LAST YEAR”S TRAGEDY (LYT), M2O (MUSIC 2 OVERDRIVE), MURFY’S FLAW, ROCK OF AGES, SEISMIC UNDYING, THE AWAKENING, THE BEATHOGZ, THE KREMLIN DIAMOND FUND, and UETA, rock you with their numbers.
There will be a surprise reward for the best Lead Guitarist of the event.
Come cheer your favourite band(s) to victory. Entry is KShs. 200/=.
1 comment October 30, 2009
Concert: Aziza in A Fusion of Afro Music, Oct 28 2009 @ National Theatre
Ewfx records presents Aziza in A Fusion of Afro Music, an evening filled with back 2 back performances of acoustic tunes, a new trend for the music industry in Kenya
28th october 2009, from 6pm to 8pm at Kenya National Theatre (concert hall)
Tickets: 100ksh
Find more information about Aziza on Facebook: search “aziza muzik”
Add comment October 23, 2009
Wapi, Oct 24 2009 @ Sarakasi Dome
MC: LABALAA. Performances by Judge, Wenyeji, Cannibal, DJ Steele, Eko Dyda, Lon Jon, K-Mash and DJ Tim Dawg, (Special Appearance by Kimathi of Jamhuri Wear)and much more.
From 9am to 3pm at Sarakasi Dome in Ngara Road
Add comment October 21, 2009
Italian Language Week Worldwide, Oct 21-27 2009 @ Italian Institute of Culture
Wednesday 21st October from 9.30 – 11.45am Italian Language Lesson
Free Italian language lesson From 9.30 -10.30 OR from 10.45 – 11.45 – booking is essential – Tel: 4451266 / 4451267).
At the Italian Institute of Culture (5th floor)
Wednesday 21st October at 5pm Italian Festa
“Festa Italiana” Screening of the film “Ho visto le stelle” by Vincenzo Salemme followed by an Italian buffet dinner – for Italian language students.
At the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall
Thursday 22nd October at 6.30 for 7pm Between Music and Cinema
Guitar concert by Italian musician and film director Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani with excerpts from his films & documentaries to illustrate the relationship between music and image. In the framework of the Kenya International Film Festival (KIFF):
“Music has become my ‘secret love’. I didn’t make a career of it, but I still play the guitar…”
“In my films and documentaries special attention is always given to the sound track…”
“My role and my satisfaction are to choose the composers and become a dynamic element in their creativity as their music will become a dynamic element in mine.”
At the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall
Friday 23rd October at 6.30 for 7pm Queen of Flowers and Pearls – a story of an Ethio-Italian writer
Performance and reading with author Gabriella Ghermandi with the participation of Poetry Salama.
With Gabriella Ghermandi the Institute commences a series of meetings with Italian writers of African origin to present the cultural diversity that the Italian language can offer and to create an exchange of experiences with Kenyan writers.
Gabriella Ghermandi will hold a seminar at the University of Nairobi on 22nd October.
At the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall
Saturday 24th October from 9.30 – 12.30pm and from 2.30 – 5.30pm. Seminar for Italian language teachers at the Italian Institute of Culture
Monday 26th October at 8pm Italian Oscar winning films
Inauguration of the complete series of Italian films awarded Oscars for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’
In the framework of the Kenya International Film Festival (KIFF). Please click here for the programme
At Nu Metro – Westgate
21st – 27th October from 11am to 4pm (excluding Saturday and Sunday) Futurism
Exhibition of reproduction of works by artist Mino Delle Site (1914 – 1996)
Viewing of his complete works on TV.
In commemoration of the centenary of the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s “Manifesto Futurista”, fundamental moment in the birth of contemporary art. At the Italian Institute of Culture (5th floor)
21st – 27th October from 11am to 4pm (excluding Saturday and Sunday) Guglielmo Marconi
Exhibition of panels on Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio. On the centenary of the awarding of his Nobel Prize for Physics (1909). At the Italian Institute of Culture (5th floor)
Italian Institute of Culture
Grenadier Tower (opposite Jacaranda Hotel – same building as Barclays Bank in Westlands)
Tel: 4451266 / 7
Website: www.iicnairobi.esteri.it
Add comment October 16, 2009
Urban Mirror: I LOVE NRB, Oct 22 2009 @ Club Soundd
Urban Mirror Show is back again Thursday 22 October 2009 at Club Soundd, Hamilton House Kaunda Street, Nairobi – Free Entry
Urban Mirror is a project about urban art and public space featuring artists from different parts of Nairobi, selected from those registrered on the Urban Mirror on line map www.urbanmirror.org
The night will feature:
the screening of the Urban Mirror News
public art performances
poetry readings
performance by Ukoo Flani
Dj sets by Just A Band, Dj Ugomatic, Dj Bob
If you are an artist you can’t miss to sign up !!!
Register now on www.urbanmirror.org, post your work or your public art idea on the map and stand a chance of being selected. If you don’t have internet access collect the registration form at the Goethe Institut.
Curated by Urban Mirror CBO
Have a look at what happened during the previous Urban Mirror event in July:
Add comment October 16, 2009
Just A Band Album Launch, Oct 17 2009 @ GoDown
Advance tickets for the October 17th show are now available from:
The Sound Africa Store, Ground Floor, 20th Century Plaza, Mama Ngina Street, CBD, Nairobi
The Bonk Store (opposite Steers Westlands), Bishan Plaza, below Black Diamond, Mpaka Road, Westlands
1 comment October 9, 2009
Concert: BABU (South African Jazz artists), Oct 16 2009 @ Alliance
The Young Artist Awards were started in 1981 by the National Arts Festival in South Africa to acknowledge emerging, relatively young South African artists who have displayed an outstanding talent in their artistic endeavours. Courtesy of the Standard Bank Group and their local counterpart, CfC Stanbic Bank, sponsors of the awards, Kenyan jazz lovers will have a unique opportunity of seeing drummer Kesivan Naidoo, the Young Artist for Jazz 2009, perform in Nairobi with his group Babu featuring Reza Khota (guitar), Shane Cooper (bass) and Ronan Skillen (tabla, percussion, didgeridoo). Babu fuses the complexity and vibrancy of jazz with the long-standing improvisational practices of Indian Classical music, making use of Ragas and Talas as well as jazz forms and harmonies to set alight an ecstatic melodic dialogue.
Add comment October 8, 2009
Giacomo Puccini’s life through his operas, Oct 15 2009 @ Italian Institute of Culture
DVD projection and live participation by coloratura Soprano Doreen Ziegler accompanied on the piano by Paul Nduati
PROGRAMME for 15th October 2009
(Puccini’s life from 1910 to 1924)
1. “LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST” (premiered on 10th December 1910 at the New York MET
Closing scene
Extracts from a Royal Opera House production with Placido Domingo and Carol Neblett
2. “LA RONDINE” (premiered on 27th March 1917 Opera Monte Carlo)
“Il bel Sogno di Loretta” by Doreen Ziegler (performed live)
Extracts from Teatro La Fenice production Venice with
Fiorenza Cedolins and Fernando Portari
3. Il TRITTICO :
Three short operas to be shown together (premiered on 14th April 1926 at Teatro La Scala Milan)
- “IL TABARRO” extract from the New York MET production with Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas
- “SUOR ANGELICA” extract from La Scala production with Rosalind Plowright
- “GIANNI SCHICCHI’ “ Oh mio babbino caro” by Doreen Ziegler (performed live)
4. “TURANDOT” unfinished last opera (premiered posthumously on 15th April 1926 at La Scala Milan)
Liu’s arias “Signore Ascolta” by Doreen Ziegler (performed live)
“Nessun Dorma” extract from a New York MET production with Placido Domingo
Add comment October 8, 2009
Ignite Poets: Two Nations, One Flame, Oct 7 2009 @ Alliance
After a long hiatus, Ignite Poets is back with our first show to be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Featuring a talented group of musicians and poets, Ignite Poets: Two Nations, One Flame will draw attention to important issues facing Kenyans today.
Funds will be donated to The Hawkers Market Girls Centre(located in the largest slum of Africa, Kibera), a school that offers vocational training for girls who are looking for a better way of life.
To find out more about the Centre, visit: http://www.girlscentre.com/
Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7pm sharp.
The performance lineup includes:
Ritongo Afrika
Moses Omondi
Kennet B
Wanjiku Mwaurah
Njeri Wangari
Pepe Haze
Walter Keyombe
Maik Kwambo
Muki Garang
Grandmaster Masese
The girls of the Hawkers Market Girls Centre
Add comment October 2, 2009
Concert: Queen Mashie, Oct 2 2009 @ Alliance
QUEEN MASHIE – Friday 2 October 7.30pm
Alliance Française gardens
Tickets: 500/-
SoundAfrica presents Zimbabwean songstress and former Oliver Mtukudzi back-up vocalist Queen Mashie in a thrilling afro fusion concert featuring other guest artistes from her new album ‘Mashie Collaboration’.
Add comment September 28, 2009
