 | | Niwel Tsumbu
Thursday January 21
The Black Box, 8.00pm
Over the last 50 years Central Africa has built itself an incredible reputation for giving birth to many of the World’s greatest guitarists, and Congolese Niwel Tsumbu is a fitting ambassador to carry that torch forward into the 21st Century.
Raised on the traditional Soukous and Rhumba music of his homeland he began playing from an early age and went on to study both jazz and classical guitar - enrolling secretly in a classical music school where he also studied saxophone for a year.
With influences from far and wide, his elegant and fluent guitar playing draws from Niwel’s past excursions with African rhythms, rumba, jazz, classical, flamenco and much more besides. Playing electric & acoustic guitars & singing mostly in his native ‘Lingala’, Niwel plays a range of music that stretches from contemporary versions of Congolese traditional music from the 30s & 40s to modern Jazz. Niwel’s love of the Spanish style of guitar playing beautifully exposing Congolese Rumba’s Latin roots! | | | | | | Tickets: £8.00 | | | | | |  | | | | | | Tickets also available from the Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609 | | | | |
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