Samba Elégua

Poetry, meet Samba; together you’ll make for an unforgettable showcase! On Saturday, January 28th beginning at 9:30 pm, Samba Elegua takes part in SLAMBA! Late Night ReFrame, the closing event of Reframe: the Peterborough International Film Festival. A night of spoken word, music, and film guaranteed to propel us toward justice, SLAMBA features Esther Vincent (host), [...]

Night…without a moon, did you say? Yes! Celebrate the ushering in of a new month, according to the Hebrew lunar calendar at the Rosh Hodesh Night Without a Moon Boogie! This is a night of live dance music by local Jewish women, celebrating the new moon and the last night of Chanukah – returning to [...]

Take a trip into Toronto’s underground tropical scene this November at the first annual Uma Nota Festival. This will be the first annual festival of “Tropical Urban Expression“, which will run from November 18 to 20, 2011 in Toronto. The festival marks the expansion of the event from a successful bi-monthly music series (once every [...]

The Trick Sunday, October 30th will be the last PSK of 2011 – PSK: Halloween! Honouring Our Ancestors. We’ll be capping off a great summer of Pedestrian Sundays Kensington in mad spooky style, as part of a huge parade. What’s the trick, you ask? You’ll have to check this space again for the time and [...]

Do you want to support women’s literacy in Africa? If so, this event is for you. Catch Samba Elegua and other live entertainers as part of Project Ashia, a party to raise awareness and support for a women`s literacy and numeracy centre in Lewoh, Cameroon. Lewoh currently faces critical issues related to the position of [...]

Back by popular demand: it’s the surprise Samba Elegua set during Nuit Blanche! Hold on tight, this one will probably be like last year’s performance, which got us some rave reviews and some new members! Look for the party around midnight, Saturday, October 1st, at the corner of Dundas and McCaul Sts.

It’s that time of month again…when the streets of Kensington Market become alive with people and music and culture. This time it’s PSK: Earth! Global Harvest Traditions. The new apples, pears and pumpkins are starting to make an appearance and the wheat sheaves are coming together in celebration. Join us on Sunday, September 25th, as [...]

Samba Elegua will be adding our rhythmic soundtrack to the 9th Annual Queen West Art Crawl in Trinity Bellwoods Park (Queen St. W. and Strachan Ave.). The Queen West Art Crawl (or ‘QWAC’ for the acronymically inclined) is a weekend-long community art festival in Parkdale. QWAC’s goal is to “celebrate and cultivate the unique character, [...]

It’s a garden party, but none of the likes that Elizabeth Regina II has seen. It’s the Second Annual KEG Harvest Party put on by the Kawartha Ecological Growers, and Samba Elegua will be there to bring the deep rhythms back to the earth. It’ll be worth checking out this event, held just 1.5 hours [...]

On the dance floor that is. Come to the Toronto All-Stars Dance Riot, on Thursday, September 1, 2011 (jeepers, that’s tomorrow!) for a night of great music and community activism. Catch Samba Elegua, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, and Tyler Shipley and the Consumer Goods at the El Mocambo! This is a fundraiser to sent two university-aged [...]