Afro-Brazilian Luncheon & Kora Griot Performance by Senegalese Zal Sissokho

2018 West Adams Street,Chicago IL 60612

20 November, 2021

Description

Griot Kora Master Zal Sissokho performs at the Brazilian Cultural Center Luncheon and Talk to mark Black Consciousness Month Celebration. The Brazilian Cultural Center of Chicago invites you to join us at Sinha Elegant Brazilian Cuisine for a cultural luncheon experience that will take you on a journey to Afro-Brazil and the African Diaspora through food, music, and cultural talks. As part of the initiative: Collective Voices of the African Diaspora, this program discusses the struggles of Afro-Brazilian in contemporary society. It will also pay tribute to Zumbi dos Palmares (1655- November 20, 1695), a Brazilian of Kongo origin and a Quilombola who led the resistance against slavery in Colonial Brazil. Additionally, Griot Kora Master Zal Sissokho, inspired by the oral traditions of the griots, West African musicians that perform in the practice of the Mandingo peoples, will play the Kora and sing melodies in both Malinke and Wolof languages. About Zal Sissokho: My story is written on the strings of my Kora. Not every musician who comes from Africa is a griot. These bearers of oral traditions are from Kouyaté, Diabaté, or Sissokho castes, the only three great families that peddle the memory of the Mandingo people. Zal Idrissa Sissokho has the name and the baggage and this incredible faculty of improvisation. Zal plays the Kora and sings in Malinke and Wolof melodies inspired or borrowed from the traditions of West Africa. Brazilian Cultural Center of Chicago ...Building bridges through cultural understanding