Anna Sibongile Buda with Biggi Vinkeloe in Sweden (con’t)
We had conversations about how important it is to be supportive of each other and to be part of a network from which we invite each other for gigs, workshops, and lectures. We dream about a festival that travels from one country to another that features musicians, composers, producers, associations from all generations, and all expressions related to jazz, a common international global language, infused, transformed, and used by all of us. In January 2024, Sibongile came to Sweden to participate in the Women and Roots Project. https://gac.se/i-fokus, My NAB Trio has invited different musicians to Sweden. Amy Reed (USA) was the first. Madhuri Jagadeesh was invited from India with vocalists Jataveda Banerjee, Mythili Ananthraman, and Jagadeesh M.R., and Anna Sibongile Buda visited from Mamelodi, South Africa. This project continues. We will release an album with Sibongile, Daydreaming, on SodaMusic. https://www.sodamusic.se/nabtrio-43896467 Biggi Vinkeloe plays saxophone, flute, composes, and conducts workshops, projects, social activism, and her company Open Horizon Records. She is a past International President of WIJSF. www.biggivinkeloe.org Anna Sibongile Buda plays double bass and is an activist who conducts workshops with youth, focusing on girls and women. She is the co-founder of Global Jazz Woman Hang (GJW) and the current International President of WIJSF. https://womeninmusic.co.za/musicians-list/sibongile-buda
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