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LEICESTER: Event and Workshops

Promoting Mbira culture as a living legacy. Documentary films and roadshow. Family friendly music workshops and performance events.

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ADDRESS:
African Carribean Centre:
Maidstone Road, Leicester LE2 0UA

WORKSHOPS: 2-6PM

PERFORMANCE: 7PM

16th May 

In the African Carribean Centre:
Maidstone Road, Leicester LE2 0UA

Workshops: 2-6pm

We warmly invite families and people of all ages to join us in exploring traditional Zimbabwean Mbira music through engaging workshops where you can learn to play and sing along with authentic instruments like MBIRA, HOSHO, and NGOMA.

Its also a chance to meet likeminded people, and discuss culture.

All are welcome. You can drop in or stay for the whole day.

The centre has its own Carribean Kitchen / Cafe - great food is available until about 6pm

Evening performance 7-9pm

Linos with his acoustic Mbira trio, presenting the spiritual music of the Zimbabwean Shona tradition.

Interwoven through the evening will be short documentary film excerpts and spoken reflections, as Linos explores the cultural meaning of the music and the stories it carries. Together, the live performance and film create an immersive journey — not just a concert, but an opening into the living context behind the sound.

Linos has been a master musician and ambassador for Zimbabwean spiritual culture for decades. With his band Zimbaremabwe, he has presented intimate acoustic sets, full-band headline shows, and mbira teaching workshops.

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