I was asked if I could do something at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vereniging Behoud Moerenburg in Tilburg (association to preserve the park). The landscape park is in the spotlight in our city, also because the Tilburg municipality has a controversial...
This is a report on Youssouf Keita's visit to the Festival CoPerACCION '23. This festival in Cartagena is now being organised for the fifth time by Emilio Saura Jimenès, Andrés Navarro García and Alejandro Solano García. Youssouf was a special guest there this year, after...
Here is a report of the Balafon Meeting held on Saturday 4 February 2023 in Tilburg. We worked on two rhythms that day: Térété & Sanji. We also had a live video conversation via a big screen with Youssouf Keita, who gave an introduction to...
Negunya played along the road during the Amsterdam Marathon 2022. After the bad weather we had at the Dam-to-Dam Run, we were hoping for nicer weather. It was cold but also with sunshine; so made nice music for the runners. We stood along the main...
On 17 September, as in previous years, Negunya had signed up to play during the ' Dam tot Damloop 2022.' This running race goes from the Zaanse Dam to the Amsterdam Dam. It already promised to be a cold wet day, so I had brought...
With a sizeable club, we played with Negunya at the 4dayswalk Alkmaar on 18 June 2022. Having already played at the Tuintonenfestival in Watergang earlier this month, we now went to Alkmaar to play for a day. Both the Djembé/Doundoun section and the balafon section...
Negunya Balafon was present at the Tuintonenfestival '22 (Festival of Garden Tunes') in Watergang on a beautiful summer day on 11 June 2022. Special guest was Youssouf Keita; Balafon builder and player born Malian, now living in Burkina Faso. In recent years, several students, and...
Just like last year, we performed with our Balabos group at Convivio Kingsday 2021. Mirjam, Anton and myself have been playing together for a while now and have built up a beautiful repertoire and can tell a nice story. With this we try to give...
In the weekend of 26, 27 and 28 February 2021, a Window-Expo was organized in the St.Anna district in Tilburg under the name Framed Art 013. Artists and other interested residents could do something in or in front of their window on the street side....
On 13 September, Balabos played at Grotto! It was a sunny weekend and in such a case, we are keen to just have a little gig somewhere. Grotto is a small forest café in De Warande, the park forest in Tilburg-West (close to where I...