Please join us for a VERY special evening at the .ZACK Theater with a one-night only film and concert with Senegalese musician and composer, Alune Wade. Come out to share the connections between jazz and afrobeat in West Africa and New Orleans, and to build bridges up and down the Mississippi River, and across the Atlantic!

At .ZACK, Doors open at 6pm and the program will begin at 7pm with a screening of Tukki: From the Roots to the Bayou, a documentary film that follows his journey through Senegal and Lagos to New Orleans to share the vibrant cultural ties across the Atlantic followed by a concert by Alune’s band. Based in Paris and Lagos, the bass virtuoso’s band members are from Benin, Reunion Island, French Guiana, Nigeria, and the United States, and will undoubtedly have you up dancing.

Tickets are just $25 each, and you can pick up your tickets today at Metrotix. We hope to see you all there!

This event is co-sponsored by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, the Griot Museum of Black History, Alliance Française de St. Louis, and the Neighborhood Story Project of New Orleans. A special thank you to Clayvon Wesley and the Missouri Senegal Sister City Collaboration.