The duo Eve Crazy & Mar Yo will be performing in two concerts during December

The Senegalese rap artist Eve Crazy (Awa Sané) and Marjo Smolander have been working on new songs together for the upcoming album of the duo. The duo will present their new music live in Joensuu and Helsinki on the following dates:

Thursday, 1 December. Sointula, Joensuu. At 20.00, tickets 5 € (duo): https://www.facebook.com/events/818379232702531/

Saturday, 10 December. Helsinki, Vuotalo. At 18.00, tickets 10/8 € (together with a band): http://www.vuotalo.fi/fi/tapahtumat/event/555843A0E35FF49D9E5EDCA69E7CDF19/Eve_Crazy___Mar_Yo__levynjulkaisukeikka

Video footage of Eve Crazy & Mar Yo performing live at the opening party of Etnosoi! festival on 4 November 2022 (Tanner, Helsinki). If the video is not working, please accept all the cookies first and try again after that.

Mini seminar at Etnosoi! festival on November 12th 2022

Welcome to hear the latest news of our project, and also more broadly about women musicians’ activities in Mali and Senegal, on Saturday, November 12th 2022 starting at 3 p.m. in Global Music Centre in Helsinki (Hämeentie 34 D, entrance in the courtyard)! This mini seminar is part of Etnosoi! festival. The seminar will be held mainly in Finnish (more info in the Finnish language version).

Music crossing borders on Fri, 9. Sept 2022

We will have an afterparty for the Crossing Borders in Music and Research seminar at Tenho Restobar in Kallio. The concert is open to everyone, even if you are not attending the seminar. There will be several musical performances that all cross borders in one way or another. The musical styles are mostly from Latin America and West Africa. The first band starts at 19.00 and the main act Jaranas del Norte will begin at about 20.30.

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Female musicians in Senegal are coming together

Elina Seye and Marjo Smolander from the WWW team were working on their own projects in Dakar, Senegal in the spring of 2021 as they went to meet representatives of local organizations for female musicians.

It is not until recently that female musicians in Senegal have started networking to support each other and strengthen their professional skills in the male-dominated music industry. Most female musicians in Senegal work as backup singers – many do dream of a solo career, but it is hard to find musicians, a producer and other professionals that they would need to promote their solo career.

Fatou Diop, Marjo Smolander, Khoudia Dieng, Elina Seye

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