WorldBeat Cultural Center
Presents
4th Annual
Fela Kuti Day
w/ Albino

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4th Annual
Fela Kuti Day

This Saturday, Nov 4th @ 8:00pm

Featuring:

Albino
12 Piece AfroBeat Band from San Francisco

Also Featuring:

Sene Africa
From Senegal, West Africa

Live AfroBeat & West African Music !

All for only $10 bucks!

@ WorldBeat Center 2100 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA 92101

Fela Anikulapo Kuti info:

Singer-composer, bandleader, trumpet, saxophone, keyboard player, and politician. Kuti is one of Africa's most revered names. He began as a highlife singer in 1954 and during this period developed his own unusual sound which he described as highlife-jazz. In 1968 Kuti announced the arrival of Afro-beat, and within the year was taling his music on a 10-month tour of America where he became influenced by the new jazz movement at the time. On returning to Nigeria he opened a nightclub, the Shrine, and changed the name of his band to Africa 70. His outspoken views and fight for the rights of the common man and woman made him unpopular with the government but a hero to the people and when in 1979 the people returned to power in the country Kuti began his own political party - MOP (Movement of the People). However the military returned to power in 1983 and within the year Kuti was sentenced to five years imprisonment on a spurious currency smuggling charge. He was released in 1986 after yet another change of government. The band reformed as Egypt 80 included a huge and exciting line-up of singers, dancers, horn section, drummers, percussionists and several guitarists. By the 1990's he had recorded a prolific amount of work.

Albino info:

Albino is a San Francisco Bay Area-based 12-piece Afrobeat ensemble that honors the fiery legacy of Afrobeat inventor Fela Kuti by melding tightly-crafted arrangements and jazz-tinged harmony with propulsive, high energy grooves. Formed in 2003, Albino has performed to capacity crowds up and down the West Coast and as far east as Chicago. The band's members hail from such well known acts as Spearhead, CK Ladzekpo, and Hamsa Lila, among others. Albino re-acquaints listeners with what it feels like to truly groove, and infuses entire audiences with an ecstatic energy that pours forth from the stage whenever this funk-fueled juggernaut performs.

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Sene Africa info:
IBRAHIMA BA - BIO	Ibrahima Ba was born in 1975 in a neighborhood outside of Dakar, Senegal. His love for music began at a young age inspired by the singing, drums, and guitar rhythms of the all blind INAS orchestra. In his early teens he stole moments at night to walk by the river or sit near the ocean training the range of his voice and the finesse of his hands on homemade guitars. He performed opening acts for well-known musicians such as Baaba Maal in 1994. At the age of 19, he played percussion for the drum/dance/musical orchestra Ninki Nanka traveling to shows at Goree Island, the Cassamance, and finally Saint-Louis, where he stayed and continued to play with a subdivision of the same group.
AMADOU FALL - BIO	Amadou Fall was born in 1977 in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. Born into a family of musicians his earliest memories were laced with the sounds of a unique 21 string African instrument, called Kora, filling the walls of his home. Created between the borders of Senegal and Guinea the high pitched voice of its strings sing songs that seem to have fallen from the heavens. Throughout his childhood the mystical spirit embodied in this rare instrument called to Amadou, and he began learning to play at 11 years old. At the age of 15, having honed his talents and style, he was sought after to participate in concerts and musical projects. Still in his teens he played on several international CDs with Fatou Tiam, Fatou Lawbe, and Djibi Sall.

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