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Pique-nique and Winter Jazzfest present the spellbinding singer ganavya, performing Filles de Illighadad’s self-titled album.
Part of the "Take Two" deep-listening series, the evening will consist of an uninterrupted playback of the 2016 album followed by a live reinterpretation by ganavya, connecting the dots between record culture and live music culture.
Released on Sahel Sounds in 2016, the album was recorded informally, including village songs but with a guitar and calabash:. Fatou Seidi Ghali is the first woman to play Tuareg-style guitar, and there’s a meditative nature to the album without losing the playfulness that the sense of village has. In ganavya’s performance inspired by the album, she takes traditional pilgrimage songs— songs from her desert lands— and performs it alongside guitar and simple percussion, the same way that Ghali does. How is this jazz? you might ask. If jazz is the sound of freedom and innovation, of creating new forms to match the new worlds, then these two fit the bill.
Due to limited capacity, $35 advance tickets will be sold on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Presented in partnership with Winter Jazz Fest
