Stu Dias & The Ancient Well

The music of Abdullah Ibrahim

Join us for a night of the music of iconic South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim. His compositions reflect many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and Ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. The band will attempt to recreate and reimagine some of the compositions by this legendary figure.

The band:

Stu Dias-Guitar

Eric Klaxton-Sax

Michael Sabin-Trombone

Andrew Strout-Keys

Rob Gerry-Bass

Eric Von Oyen-Drums

About Abdullah Ibrahim

Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s most distinguished pianist and a world-respected master musician, was born in 1934 in Cape Town and baptized Adolph Johannes Brand. His early musical memories were of traditional African Khoi-san songs and the Christian hymns, gospel tunes and spirituals that he heard from his grandmother, who was pianist for the local African Methodist Episcopalian church, and his mother, who led the choir. The Cape Town of his childhood was a melting-pot of cultural influences, and the young Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to American jazz, township jive, CapeMalay music, as well as to classical music. Out of this blend of the secular and the religious, the traditional and the modern, developed the distinctive style, harmonies and musical vocabulary that are inimitably his own.

$17 advance | $22 day-of | $10 student

*fees not included