Sura Susso [West African Music]
Doors at
7pm (Diners)
7:30pm (Standing)
Performance from 8pm
Seating is reserved for diners only
Please ensure you book the correct ticket – view menu
Sura Susso
“Exquisite kora playing…” – Cerys Matthews for Songlines
“it perfectly demonstrates his playing is technically proficient, refined and able to expand beyond tradition. An excellent example of a contemporary interpretation of the kora” – Martin Sinnock, Songlines
Sura Susso was born in The Gambia, into a family of griots. Griots, referred to in Mandinka as Jali, are cultural figures in society across West Africa who carry the cultural knowledge and identity of the people.
His father, Mamudou Susso, is a renowned kora player in The Gambia, and his late mother, Fatou Bintu Cissokho, originally from the Casamance region of Senegal, was a formidable singer and percussionist. At seventeen, Sura moved to the UK as the percussionist in his brother’s band, the Seckou Keita Quintet. He has worked with and performed alongside renowned international musicians including Baaba Maal, Rokia Traore, Habib Koite and Sona Jobarteh. His quest to promote the traditional music from his cultural roots in The Gambia and his fascination with experimenting with new genres have led him to perform and record in a number of interesting cross-cultural settings, including collaborations with the great British-German violinist Maximilian Baillie, Chinese erhu player Ling Peng, Indian sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee, French jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz, South African opera singer Pumeza, Spanish-Senegalese band Africai, British multi-instrumentalist Pete Josef and an album with the duo ‘Askew and Avis’, called Kora Song Radio.
Line up:
Sura Susso – kora
Amadou Diagne – percussion
“A beautiful, quietly experimental album brimming over with imagination and delivered with virtuosic authority.” – Rock & Reel
“A delightful recital… It was a joy to watch and hear this master of his instrument at work…” – Chapter Arts
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TICKET TYPES
- Standing (main area) – these tickets are for our designated standing area: please be mindful of obstructing the view of seated ticket holders
- Dining (main seating area) – You can request to be seated in ‘Dizzy’ (raked theatre), ‘Mingus’ (near piano) or ‘Duke’ (side wall). Whilst we can guarantee that you will have a table, we cannot guarantee exactly where, as we do our best to fulfil all customers requirements
- Dining (Ella/Satchmo seating area) – you can request to be seated in ‘Ella’ (by the fireplace) or ‘Satchmo’ (by the windows). Please note, a few of these seats have a restricted view
- Dining tickets come with table service.
- If you are hoping to combine bookings or join an existing booking then please let us know in advance as we cannot guarantee that changes to our table plan will be possible on the night
- You can view a seating plan here
SPECIAL ACCESS NEEDS
- Please email bookings@peggysskylight.co.uk to reserve a suitable seat for you and your party
- We have an accessible toilet on the ground floor
CONCESSIONS
- Concessionary tickets (if available) are for anyone under 26; over 65; receiving Universal Credit or in possession of a current NUS card
- If concessionary tickets are purchased alongside seated tickets, then you will all be seated together. Should your booking consist entirely of concessionary tickets, these will be allocated as standing by default. You can request seating, subject to availability.
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