Before the members of Congolese music collective KOKOKO! take the stage at Washington, D.C.'s Rock & Roll Hotel, they slip into bright yellow jumpsuits. The fashion choice, they explain, has ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. “West Central Africa, popularly known as Congo or Bantu, brought a trove of ideas ...
ASHLAND — Bichini Bia Congo: Authentic Congolese Dance and Drum will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, at the Paramount Arts Center. Bichini Bia Congo (BBC) is an authentic Congolese dance ...
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation (NOJHF) presents a Tom Dent Congo Square Lecture on stick-fighting dances of the Caribbean and early New Orleans. It will be at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center ...
Africa’s leading Congolese Rumba music is now on the list of the world cultural heritage of humanity after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) admitted the ...
On Kokoko!’s first and only Chicago visit till now, the Congolese group put on the most bonkers fun show of the 2019 World Music Festival. Decked out in their signature yellow jumpsuits, they moved ...
As you walk into Ibiza, a dance club in the middle of Goma, the bouncer takes your temperature, and you have to wash your hands with a bleach and water solution. Then you walk past a little gazebo and ...
The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
It’s been 20 years since Mabiba Baegne last brought her African dance and music magic to Missoula. Among the many things that have changed since then: the Garden City became, in just the past few ...
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