Name: Sura Susso + Cecilia Ndhlovu at The Jam Jar
Start: 2025-03-21T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-21T22:00:00+00:00
Location: The Jam Jar Bristol

Sura Susso + Cecilia Ndhlovu at The Jam Jar

✨✨ Exquisite voice and playing from Gambian Kora master Sura Susso with live trio. ✨✨
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵
𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗼 (𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗼)
+ 𝗖𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗡𝗱𝗵𝗹𝗼𝘃𝘂
𝟳𝗽𝗺-𝟭𝟬𝗽𝗺
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗝𝗮𝗿, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗹
🇬🇲 Sura Susso was born in The Gambia, into a family of griots. Griots, referred to in Mandinka as Jali, are cultural figures in society across West Africa who carry the cultural knowledge and identity of the people.
His father, Mamudou Susso, is a renowned kora player in The Gambia, and his late mother, Fatou Bintu Cissokho, originally from the Casamance region of Senegal, was a formidable singer and percussionist. 🪘🪘
Sura moved to the UK at the age of seventeen, as the percussionist in his brother’s band, the Seckou Keita Quintet. He has worked with and performed alongside renown international musicians which include Baaba Maal, Rokia Traore, Habib Koite and Sona Jobarteh.
His quest to promote the traditional music from his cultural roots in The Gambia and his fascination with experimenting new genres have led him to perform and record in a number of interesting cross-cultural settings, including collaborations with the great British-German violinist Maximilian Baillie, Chinese erhu player Ling Peng, Indian sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee, French jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz, South African opera singer Pumeza, Spanish-Senegalese band Africai, British multi-instrumentalist Pete Josef and an album with the duo ‘Askew and Avis’, called Kora Song Radio. 🎶🎶🔥🔥