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Postcard - Passing Clouds Club

Object

postcard

Production date

23/9/2011

Object number

2011.106

Physical Description

Postcard advertising Passing Clouds club, 2011

Material

card

Dimension

Width (Front): 10cm

Exhibition Label

From 'Roots, Rhythms & Records: The sounds and stories of African & Caribbean music in Hackney'

Venues like Passing Clouds provided a space for different musical styles to meet and fuse to create new sounds.

Gambian musician Jally Kebba Susso fuses his traditional griot performance style with newer styles like Hip Hop.

A griot or jali is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and musician. Their role in the community is to preserve and share the people’s history.

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No

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Friday September 23 Passing Clouds presents Jally Kebba Susso, Manding Sabu and others.