Club Jaliya is a unique experience with new musical encounters at every opportunity! The name "Jaliya" represents a long-standing West African tradition where a Jali is both entertainer and storyteller - but also an artist with a message, community involvement and drive to change and influence. Through musical meetings, new expressions are explored and together with the guests, the club's hosts Sousou and Maher Cissoko find out how the Jali tradition can develop and live on. For the autumn evenings, Sousou and Maher have invited artists from different genres and with different expressions that they think represent different parts of the Jali culture to see what fusions occur when they meet on stage.
ESBJÖRN HAZELIUS
The singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Esbjörn Hazelius grew up on the northwestern Scanian plains around the small village of Starby. Already as a young violin player, he fell in love with Swedish and Irish folk music and was absorbed by the abundant community surrounding the musical forms. Esbjörn had soon become one of Sweden's most active professional folk musicians, a beloved song singer, and a sought-after producer, conductor and songwriter, both within the folk music world and far beyond genre boundaries.
Esbjörn Hazelius has now toured Sweden and the world for almost 30 years, and still continues to enchant the audience with his brilliant string playing and his warm baritone voice. With a rare presence, he travels seamlessly through the Swedish and Celtic soundscapes, all colored by a heartfelt and deeply personal sound world. In addition to his solo career, Esbjörn has mainly been seen over the years in the groups Quilty, Hazelius Hedin, Jul i Folkton, Eitre and Ale Möller Band. He has acted as the musical engine behind many other artists, and was i.a. the main architect behind Sofia Karlsson's success with the albums Svarta Ballader and Visor från vinden, as well as producer and conductor for Tomas Ledin's folk-inspired project "Höga Kusten". Esbjörn Hazelius has toured in the Nordics, Europe, Africa, Asia and Canada, has participated in over 100 record productions, and has been rewarded in many contexts with nominations and prizes from the Grammy Awards, the Folk & World Music Awards and the Manifest Gala. He has also been seen as artistic director of Stockholm Folk Festival and as Artist in Residence at Malmö Academy of Music.
SOUSOU & MAHER CISSOKO
Sousou & Maher Cissoko are a renowned performing and songwriter duo who tour the world and have played in over 30 countries at everything from major festivals and concert halls to small intimate clubs. Both grew up in musical families, and it was the interest and love for the West African instrument kora that brought them together. Maher comes from a famous family of kora players in Senegal with a long tradition of being Jalis. Sousou is one of the world's few female musicians who play the kora. In their music, magnificent choral playing and expressive vocals are combined with a rhythmic energy and influences from, among other things, reggae, folk, soul and mbalax.
Both Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio have made documentaries about Sousou and Maher, and when Youssou N ́Dour received the Polar Prize in 2013, together with Timbuktu, they sang two of Youssou N ́Dour's songs and moved him to tears. In 2017 they toured with LALEH and the Swedish people could follow them in the SVT series "Folkets musik" where famous Swedish hit songs were interpreted by musicians with roots in other countries.
The event is carried out with support from Musik i Syd and Lund Municipality.