The Sofia Goodman Group & The Yeli Ensemble w/ JayVe Montgomery
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Aug 22, 2024 7pm
Location
Blue Room Bar
623 7th Ave S
Details
The YELI Ensemble is named after the word 'Yeli', also called Griot in French. A Yeli is a 'living archive' of West African people's traditions. It is someone who has learned their art form from the youngest age, initially from their parents and then from their community and different masters of the art form.
The Yeli Ensemble is a collective of artists invited from West Africa sometimes combined with local artists. We rotate artists in order to represent the wealth of art forms on the African continent. We are very excited to have Sekouna join us from Mexico City where he now resides, performs and teaches percussion and dance.
Sofia Goodman is an award-winning drummer and composer residing in Nashville, TN. In high school she was placed in Esperanza Spalding’s student ensemble at Berklee College of Music, where she was encouraged and inspired by the Grammy Award winning artist. She started her own group The Sofia Goodman Group in 2017. The ensemble has performed at a variety of festivals in the U.S.A and has released two albums. Her first album Myriad of Flowers was nominated by NIMA for Best Jazz album. Her second album, Secrets of the Shore, won Best Jazz Album of 2023 by the Nashville Scene, was featured in JAZZIZ and received 4 stars in DownBeat. Her upcoming album, Receptive, produced by Pascal Le Boeuf, will be released July 26th.
Price: $19.41
