Johannes Krieger's Chibanga Groove is like a smaller version of the Tora Tora Big Band, with the particularity that this transnational formation created in Lisbon emphasises African influences - both Maghrebian and da negra, more to the south - in a jazz style that is intended to be festive, very physical and with more space for improvisation. Besides the German trumpeter, composer and arranger involved in several Portuguese orchestras, we find musicians such as Dan Hewson, Francesco Valente and João Rijo, all of them an important part of the national scene, despite their different origins.

The special guest in this version of the group is a kora player linked to the Mandinka tradition and who we can hear play with Swiss born Taffetas and May Coope. The Guinean Ibrahima Galissa is used to linking griot with jazz and this is repeated once again in this project that intends to give its folk and African nature back to the genre of music originating in the United States, in a multicultural formula that embraces both the historical conventions and the progressive factors of the contemporary.
All this according to the particular vision of Krieger, a musician who has stood out in contexts as diverse as the projects he has shared with Nuno Rebelo, Alípio C. Neto, Ricardo A. Freitas, Tito Paris, Amélia Muge and Yuri Daniel and who has greatly contributed to raising the quality of our "bigbandism" to the level it is today.

Line-up

Johannes Krieger - trompet
Dan Hewson - piano
Francesco Valente - base/double bass
João Rijo - drum
Ibrahima Galissa - kora

International Solidarity Day

This show is part of the commemorations of the International Solidarity Day.

In this sense, Miranda do Corvo Municipality launched a campaign to collect food and other essential goods to help needy families in the municipality. You are kindly requested to deliver one of the following:

• Olive oil
• Canned tuna
• Canned vegetables
• Cereal boxes
• Cooking oil
• Tooth paste
• Body wash
• Shampoo

These products can be delivered at Casa das Artes (concert venue) at the following times:

• Tuesday to Friday: 2pm to 7pm
• Saturday and Sunday: 3pm to 7pm
• Day of show: until 1 hour before

The delivery can also be made at the Municipal Tourism Office and the Miguel Torga Municipal Library.

The Aldeias do Xisto and the Municipality of Miranda do Corvo thank you for your participation.