Listening Session: Singing Wells with Said Abdullahi

Thursday, 30.October
19:00-20:00
Bergen Kunsthall

Works by Singing Wells is presented in a specially designed listening and gathering space at Bergen Kunsthall.

Here, you can delve into the Singing Wells' music archive.

Singing Wells is dedicated to recording, archiving, and circulating music traditions from East Africa. Working as an itinerant studio, the project documents performances, interviews, and sound-based storytelling in collaboration with a diverse multitude of musicians, multi-instrumentalists, and sonic historians across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique, and South Africa. The archive now includes over 370 group performances.

Said Abdullahi joins us this week to share his favourites from the archive.