Hear it Live!
13 February
Members of the traditional dance troupe Bantu Arts, will be performing on a variety of instruments from across the African continent, including the adungu (harp), endigidi (tube fiddle), ngoni (kora style) and a wide selection of drums!
Steven Kasamba
Born in Uganda, Steven Kasamba started performing at early age whilst growing up in Uganda specialising in folk music and dances using instruments like ngoma (drums), adungu (harp) and endigidi (fiddle). He is the founder and a director of Bantu Arts, a community organisations which specialises in promoting African arts.
Aboubacar Konate
Born in Burkina Faso, Aboubacar Konate is the eighth son in family of praise (griots) singers of Dafing origin. Mr Konate adapted his skills from Senufo, Senegalese and Fulani tribes to create his own repertoire with a renowned instrument called Ngoni to create musical sounds of mandingo and forest rhythms.
Join them from 4pm in the Hands on Base for an interactive session with our handling collection straight after their performance.
About Hear it Live!
Hear it Live! often includes performances on our four historical keyboard instruments, three of which, from the former Finchcocks Musical Museum, were restored to playing condition thanks to National Lottery funding.
The instruments are:
- A rare surviving example of a signed Neapolitan virginals by Onofrio Guarracino, 1668;
- A beautifully-preserved square piano by Adam Beyer, London, 1777;
- A 1772 Kirckman harpsichord; and
- A handsome English chamber organ, possibly by Joseph Beloudy, London, c.1800.
Find details of previous performances you can still watch below.
Watch one of the previous performances
- Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez and Sonia Hrechorowicz on the Cello and Kirkman harpsichord
- Grifton Forbes-Amos and Kian Cardenas on the guitar and trumpet
- Bantu Arts on the talking drums
- Linda Nicholson on the 1777 Beyer square piano
- Stephan Farr plays the English chamber organ
- Robin Bigwood performs on the Italian virginals
- Performance by Callum Anderson playing the English chamber organ
- Performance by Dominika Maszczyńska playing the square piano
- Performance by Linda Nicholson playing the Kirkman harpsicord
- Performance by Linda Nicholson playing the square piano
- Performance by Callum Anderson playing the 1772 Kirckman harpsichord
- Performance by Dominika Maszczyńska playing the 1772 Kirckman harpsichord
- Performance by Josef Laming on the virginals
- Performance by Steven Devine, At Home with the Horniman (part 2)
- Performance by Steven Devine, At Home with the Horniman (part 1)
- Performance by Masumi Yamamoto on the harpsichord
- Performance by Rebeca Omordia on the square piano
- Performance by Marilyn Harper on the organ
- Performance by Katarzyna Kowalik on the square piano
The Hear It Live! recordings were made possible through the generosity of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
