The Cultural Centre kicks off 2012 with supergroup, the African Guitar Summit!
Last years Memeza Africa show brought a full house audience cheering & waving to their feet. This year, the Cultural Center supports Black History month with the award winning African Guitar Summit, featuring nine of the most celebrated guitarists of African origin.
The group arrives in Fort St John January 23 for their only show in the cold north (their talent is hot enough to warm the entire city!)
Come early for preshow drumming with Fort St John’s Pan African group. Visions for Change, a group of 38 high school students will also be on hand to talk about their spring trip to
Ghana and the work they’ll be doing in an orphanage there. And then, the show we're all waiting for starts at 7:30.
History was made in 2004 when the super group African Guitar Summit assembled at the CBC studios to record what has been widely hailed as the greatest recording ever to come out of the fertile African music scene in Canada.
This is a really special show. Not only is it superb entertainment, it’s a great way to celebrate the growing cultural diversity in our community and bring people together with music.
African Guitar Summit is selling out venues across the country…huge venues like Massey Hall where entire audiences are jumping to their feet. I’m hoping that here in the Music Capital of the North we can fill the theater for them too. It takes a lot to get these kinds of groups here and we need everyone’s support to make it work …trust me this is worth coming out for!
See them. Experience this superb and truly incredible performance live on stage at the Cultural Centre …and take note: while you take in the rich, harmonized vocals, the movement, the rollicking guitar lines and unmistakable African flavor, you’ll need to look around at your surroundings to remind yourself you’re in Fort St John and not in the artists’ African home. It will be that easy to forget!
The show starts at 7:30 and the tickets are $40.00 Adult, $35.00 Seniors/Youth, $25 12 and under. Tickets are available at the box office, by phone at (250) 785-1992 or online.
