Moussa Kouyate gig: Bringing Us Together

The Cotham Club is trying to create Community through Music in Bristol". Our first event sold out and this second event looks amazing so do book soon and come and join us. Expect a beautiful space, a warm welcome, a relaxed atmosphere, cabaret style seating, nibbles, a donation bar and an opportunity to chat to great people you wouldn't otherwise meet.

**You can get your tickets here: https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2022-05-27&event_id=74629**

Moussa Kouyate is from a thousand-year-old lineage of elite griots (musician/poets) to the kings of Mali. He grew up in Senegal and became established in Dakar, making koras and playing them in his unique rhythmic style. Moussa’s big break came in 1999 when he played at the Edinburgh Festival and then Glastonbury and WOMAD. He launched the album ‘Kora Blues’ with blues guitarist Kevin Brown in 2003, and has just recorded a new one, ‘Bristol Griot,’ with his newly formed band.

Moussa, along with a band member, will play extracts from the new album, interwoven with conversation on stage with his nephew, Gambian kora player and griot historian, Bunjah Conteh, reflecting on the role played by griots and other musicians in forming community.

Bunja's band AfroWelsh Connection plays the second set. Uniquely combining traditional West African griot melodies with their own Welsh flavoured compositions you'll hear gentle vocals, flute, guitar and mandolin. The music is groovy, relaxing and trance-like one moment, uplifting and dancy the next!