Music And Arts Scene
Nubi presents...
On Wednesday, September 18 from 7.30pm to 10.30pm, NUBI - a group of London-based African designers will present an evening of African Rhythms, Poems, Dance and a Fashion Show at the Africa Centre, 38 King Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2. Tickets £3.50 (advance) £4.00 (door) £2.50 (concessions).Nubi recently organised a highly acclaimed fashion show during the Commonwealth Institute's Indian Ocean Music Village and this evening's show offers the London public a chance to see some of Africa's most exciting design flair in action! Swirling traditional fabrics cut for the 1980s and adorned with stylish contemporary jewellery!
Music from Zuriya, dances by Anita and Ciru and African food. Poems by Pitika Ntuli and Abdilatif Abdalla.
African culture
Bass Clef, (35 Coronet Street. N1), the North London Center for Afro Caribbean music promotion, is one year old.As part of an elaborate programme to commemorate the occasion, African Culture, a new band of talented musicians from Africa, Jamaica and Britain, will be on the band stand on Saturday, September 14 at 9.30pm.
"The style of music," says Abdul Salago Tee-Jay, founder and leader, "has got many influences namely, African and jazz but the appropriate term is 'Pan African'. Main elements are highlife, soukous of Zaire and Soca."
Abdul comes from Sierra Leone. The other members are Aston, bass guitarist, from Jamaica, Sinclair, Kit drummer from Barbados, Gabriel, percussionist and singer, from Ghana, Kahimi, trombonist from Ghana, singers, Adjoah and Tumi from Ghana and Colin, trumpet from Jamaica.
Poets' Corner
Fingers packed in pieceIt is time to sit within the shrine
Shut the window ears and listen
Outside the hapless clatter of the world.
It is time to see
Eyes shut....
Greenness of life there is eternal stretch
See the timeless blues
Spread out as if to oust
Devilment from within and without.
It is the hour of messages
Positive such as love
With dumb mouths and bridled tongue
And the fingers packed in piece
It is the unending millisecond
To take a decision
Especially where it concerns
The heart's matter
And the mind's stand.
Tehtey
