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Amandla Poets
A FUNKY SOUTH AFRICAN MBAQANGA JIVE & REGGAE BAND, combines Amandla (power) with Poets (writers of words in meter) and was coined by the band founder and leader, Dumile Vokwana, a native of Guguletu (our pride) village bordering Capetown, South Africa. Collaborating with songwriter/arranger/vocalist and choreographer Elouise Burrell, Burrell and Vokwana bring forth a full stage show of music , dance and vocal harmonies reminiscent of the early performances of Sly and the Family Stone and the earthy and ancestor connected sounds of Arrested Development as they warm-up concerts for such performers as Third World, Culture, Kanda Bongo Man, Lucky Dube, McCoy Tyner, Maria Muldaur, Narada Michael Walden and others.
DUMILE SADIQA VOKWANA; from Capetown, South Africa , has performed throughout the Bay area with Zulu Harmony ( a South African acapella ensemble) as well as recording African Folktales and his own poet/musician ensembles. A songwriter, poet and an actor, Vokwana recently dazzled Bay Area audiences in American Conservatory Theater's "Dark Sun", and Athol Fugard's "Master Harold and the Boys." Vokwana recently completed a musical, "Afrika, my child", which was premiered at Kuumba Repertory in Houston, Texas. ELOUISE BURRELL; originally from Palestine, Texas. An internationally acclaimed vocalist, recording artists, dancer and actress who performs also with Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, has performed and/or recorded with the Neville Brothers, Santana, Taj Mahal, Al Green, Sonny Okosun, Etta James, The Looters, John Handy, The Meditations, Buddy Miles, O.J. Ekemode, Kotoja, Zulu Spear, Third World, Stevie Ray Vaughn as well as producing three billboard charted singles recordings. RON van LEEUWAARDE; originally from Surinam, South America, is a lead and rhythm guitarist and the "high tenor lines on both guitar and voice" in Amandla Poets, adding the textured layering for which the group is known. van Leeuwaarde is one of the founding members of Zulu Spear, a popular African world music band during 1988-1994. ELIAS NEGASH; keyboards/synthesizer, of Ethiopian heritage,has played, composed and arranged African, Soca, R & B, and Religious music in his tours of three continents-Africa, Europe, and the Americas. THE HORNS OF FIRE; SAX : TAL VARON from Kfar Bilu,Israel, performed mostly jazz & classical throughout Israel, New York, and Germany before joining the Poets in California; TRUMPET: DARREN JOHNSTON from Toronto, performed salsa, jazz. funk and World Beat with O'Jays, Buddy Miles, Herbie Lewis Band in Canada, China and throughout the USA. PATRICK OWENS; bassist, has worked internationally with Barrington Levy, Pablo Moses, Raskidus, Wazobia, Sister I-Live and Rankin Screw and Ginger. JAMES HENRY úp; percussion, toured with african, latin jazz and caribbean band for the past 20 years. MANNERS ITIENEúp; drummer, from Nigeria has worked for ZuluSpear, Victor Massett and the Mandators, Inka Inka, Jungles Apart, Wazobia, Sister I-Live and many Bay Area funk, R&B and rock bands for over 15 years.
A full scale production with rhythm section of guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion and horns, two lead vocalist/ dancers will stop you dead in your tracks with their infectious South African reggae grooves and stroke your heart and soul with their sweet vocal harmonies and energetic dance combinations. When appropriate, a six piece acoustic ensemble reaches deep into South Africa's township jive, jazz and quella roots.
