Thursday June 6, 2013
Venue: Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West, Toronto www.lula.ca
Time: Doors 8 PM Show 9 PM
Tickets: $20
Info: www.batukimusic.com info@batukimusic.com

Batuki Music Society presents the return of Okavango African Orchestra on Thursday June 6th at the Lula Lounge at 9 PM.

Okavango African Orchestra - 12 instruments, 10 languages, 7 countries…one debut album preview concert.

The orchestra takes its name from the Okavango Delta, a basin in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, where many different animal species come together to feed and find water. Predators and prey are forced to coexist and share the meager resources because of the harsh environment around them. Similarly, Okavango: An African Orchestra brings together the traditional music and instruments of several major African cultures that historically have had little or no interaction. The musicians of Okavango have created a common meeting place for these disparate cultures, and a new musical language that harmonizes their different tuning systems, rhythms, and timbres. The multicultural spirit of modern-day Canada bridges ancient African solitudes.

The journey continues…

Over the autumn and winter of 2012, the reassembled Okavango African Orchestra revisited the site of its triumphant debut, the Canadian Broadcasting Centre where it conquered a full house at Glenn Gould Studio the previous year during Black History month. Its members, returning and new, hunkered down at CBC’s ‘Studio 211’ for the recording of the group’s debut album due for release in late 2013.


Batuki Music Society brings the Okavango African Orchestra to Lula Lounge for an exciting show to preview songs from the upcoming album and look ahead on its continuing journey to an “Africa without borders… before the borders were created”.