The Samoana Jazz and Arts Festival is also bringing an educational element with the Samoan Musicology Forum that features Professor Richard Moyle who will discuss his research findings of Samoan music fifty years ago.
The inaugural Samoana Jazz and Arts Festival is now in progress in American Samoa. And it’s coming to Apia this Friday. It is an inspired mix of the likes of young Samoan jazz pianist Andrew Faleatua, who is now resident in Sydney, with his full band that includes Dylan Elise (drums) and Junior Nansen (bass).
Then there is a solid local counterpart talent with amazing young musicians ‘Banned from the Sun’, fronted by three albino girls and their brother (hence their name) who are children of Siuleo Pouesi from the talented musical Pouesi family in the Samoas.
Then there is the seasoned musicians in Symposium, the South African based jazz guitarist Eddie Lolesi and many more who are reliving the jazz genre first brought by the marines to American Samoa in the 1900s.
<script async src="http://www.samoaobserver.ws///pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<!-- ads-articles(24.03.14) -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px"
data-ad-client="ca-pub-9419815128221199"
data-ad-slot="2395638412"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>
International guests from across the Pacific arrive in Apia throughout the week to perform in Apia with local musos at venues such as Tanoa Tusitala, Sails Restaurant and Bar, the Marina, Home Cafe and at the STA cultural village, and the Sinalei Resort.
It is home coming for New Zealand/ Samoan hiphop/jazz and RNB superstar Iva Lamkum, who will perform in Apia for the first time at a one night headlining concert at Sails Restaurant on Saturday November 8.
Iva’s homecoming journey is being followed by the New Zealand TVOne programme Fresh.
This first, boutique festival event is a warm up for a larger festival planned for 2015, and will be a fabulous introduction for many locals to a wide variety of jazz inspired music and a chance to experience some of the Samoan and the Pacific’s finest music talents from across the globe. The
Samoana Jazz and Arts Festival is also bringing an educational element with the Samoan Musicology Forum that features Professor Richard Moyle who will discuss his research findings of Samoan music fifty years ago.
The Andrew Faleatua Quintet will also visit the Music Department of the Ministry of Education, Sports & Culture for special performances and meet the local music students.
Free concerts around Apia include The Edge/Marina bars on Friday 7th, Home Cafe on Friday and Saturday lunchtime, and the STA cultural village during Saturday 8 November. Here a mix of local and international musicians will perform around town and bring a unique jazz/musical flavour for one weekend only to Apia.
There is a great line up of acts planned for Tanoa Tusitala on Friday night and all of Saturday afternoon - a great warm up for Saturday’s headlining concert at Sails Restaurant from 6pm – 11.30pm.
The concert will feature Iva Lamkum, the Andrew Faletua Quintet, and special guests from American Samoa, New Zealand and South Africa, - it is sure to be big draw card and audiences will be able to buy tickets as door sales ($20) on the night of the gig at Sails restaurant and Bar outdoor stage venue.
<!-- 336x280 (bottom-article) -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px"
data-ad-client="ca-pub-2469982834957525"
data-ad-slot="1033882026"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>{/googleAds}