Bamboula 2000

Bamboula 2000 is a dance and music ensemble that pulls on multicultural root base that reach deep in to the garden soil of Congo Square in the town of New Orleans. For more than 100 years, the city square played web host to dance and music rituals performed by folks of Caribbean and Western world African descent. The term bamboula identifies a appreciate dance that was performed towards the master of drums and the feminine or male typically performed the sensuous actions. The bamboula passed on its syncopated tempo to strains of music discovered today in Martinique, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and New Orleans, including calypso, zouk, and dancehall music. Bamboula 2000 took its traditions and improvements it using its first numbers, blending components of reggae, jazz, funk, metropolitan, and other styles. In 1996, the ensemble released its first documenting, Cultural Warrior. People took their present on the highway, both in the home in the U.S. and overseas, which same season the group took house an Offbeat Music Prize and a huge Easy Prize. In 2000, the ensemble performed for the 6th time on the Jazz & Heritage Celebration held each year in New Orleans. Another CD, New Culture, was released that same season. Percussionist Luther Grey is certainly Bamboula 2000’s head. In 1993, he spearheaded your time and effort to state a spot in the Country wide Register of Historical Areas for the historically wealthy Congo Square. Along with Jamilah Muhammed four years previously, he helped create the Congo Square Base. The remaining people of Bamboula 2000 are keyboardist Lloyd Daly, percussionist Eric Burt, guitarist Mario Tio, drummer Cameron Woods, lead vocalist Elbert “Moses” Fulgham, bassist Terrence Anderson, and background performers Carde, Drena Clay, and Cheryl Jenkins. Also contained in the ensemble are dancers Kai Knight, Erica “Famata” Larkins, Jamilah Peters-Muhammad, and Charlene Tantira Bridges (collectively these are referred to as the Bamboula Queens).