Kenya: Women In Music Concert Series back this December

The two jazz artists met at the jazzahead! festival in Germany earlier this year, where Kamau had been featured alongside two other jazz acts from Africa to showcase jazz music from the continent.

The evening promises to be a joyous celebration of jazz music with the groovy jazz sounds of Lottermoser’s saxophone and the vibrant Afro-jazz trumpet style of Kamau.

“It is wonderful to collaborate on this jazz concert with Stephanie Lottermoser, one of the top female jazz acts in Germany today,” Kamau said. “We hope that this live music collaboration will contribute to strengthening the cultural dialogue and exchange between Kenya and Germany.”

Kamau is an established Kenyan jazz musician who has performed internationally, including at UNESCO’s Jazz Women In Africa, the New York Festival of New Trumpet Music, and in countries like Nigeria, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Cameroon, Uganda, Tanzania and Ivory Coast.

According to All About Jazz, Kamau’s music is a unique, joyous amalgamation of African, rock, jazz and ethnic components that assuredly will have a universal appeal. This is indeed an international star on the rise.”

Lottermoser, meanwhile, is a renowned German jazz musician with an illustrious career spanning six solo jazz albums and a busy music performance schedule that has seen her tour various parts of the world.

“Soulful, funky and quite simply untamable, music as soft and cuddly as a red plush sofa in the lounge at twilight, as stirringly erotic as the crackling air of a dodgy jazz club,” is how Concerto Magazine described Lottermoser’s style. “Lottermoser knows how to handle emotion, arrangement and instrumentation in her compositions and presents her independent and recognisable language as a singer and saxophonist. In her music, all sides of the power woman come to bear, who after a little melancholic sound immediately goes full throttle again and with straightforward melodies and catchy rhythms steers purposefully towards success.”

Women In Music Concert Series began in 2016, with regular shows being held at the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, and has so far featured Kenyan musicians of various genres, including artists like Fena Gitu, Karun, Nikita Kering, and Lisa Oduor-Noah, among others. The series strives to increase representation, create connections, and expand opportunities for women within the Kenyan music industry.

Women In Music Concert Series – Jazz Edition is partly supported by the German cultural organisation, Goethe-Institut.

Tickets to the event are available here.