Funk Soul Brother Launch Party: Harare, Snazzback + DJs

A new monthly event for the Bloomsbury Lanes is launching Friday 2nd Feb 2018!!

FUNK SOUL BROTHERFunk 🎸 Afrobeat 🌍 Disco🕺🏻 Soul ❤️ Latin 💃🏽 Brass 🎺 Jazz 🚬

We’ve been on musical pilgrimage to find the funkiest groove from all corners of Mother Earth and lure it the Bloomsbury dancefloor for a monthly knees-up. We’ll have all you Funk Brothers & Soul Sisters strutting and sliding until the early hours to incredible bands & party DJs from across the globe.

First up…. Afro Special!

Harare is one of the few groups to be playing Zimbabwean dance music in Europe. Formed by virtuoso marimbist Kuda Matimba (a member of the Zimbabwe's legendary Bhundu Boys), 4-piece Harare combines different styles from Jit Jive to traditional hypnotic rhythms of the mbira (lamellaphone/thumb piano). 

Harare celebrate both the past and the future of African dance music and bring a spectacular mix of Southern African musical styles, particularly the musical styles of Zimbabwe. Their music - sung in the Shone language of Zimbabwe - is about social awareness, life yesterday, today and tomorrow, advice, respect, love for one another and compassion, as the musicians express pain, love, wisdom and rage. Whatever you hope for when you think of Zimbabwean music be sure that Harare has it aplenty: ringing jingling guitars, rich-toned marimba, irresistible dance rhythms, swooping basslines, uplifting vocals … they’re all there, plus the unavoidable big grin that the music always puts on your face.

Snazzback approach afro-funk and psych-jazz with a free improv sensibility. Busking on the streets of Bristol since 2016, they have built a reputation for high-energy colourful street-snazz parties. Making over 25 appearances at 15 festivals in the past year, including Shambala, Bestival and Glastonbury. They expand groove driven jazz with all the pizzaz which goes with being snazz. 

DJs: TBC

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