For the past 16 months, producer Jimmy Veerapen has been breathing new life into the Café du Vieux Conseil in the historic heart of Port-Louis, combining musical creation with good food. The Mama Jaz team joins him for the whole month of April, every weekend. , to combine the charm of tall trees, beautiful stones and cobbled streets, with the grooves and melodies of Mauritian and international jazz. Let the nights of Port-Louis live again! Dominique Bellier
Of course, throughout April, Mama Jaz continues to offer its daily Minit Mazik on social networks, as well as its free live Mama Pik Nik on Sunday afternoons, in Beau-Plan on the lawns of Creative Park. There will also be a unique concert at the Caudan Arts Centre with one of the biggest names in international jazz at the moment, saxophonist Steve Coleman, with three musicians from the Five Elements, landing in Mauritius for International Jazz Day on April 30.
But this new edition of Mama Jaz will take place at the Café du Vieux Conseil from Friday evening to Sunday evening, with two daytime events on Saturday… All in all, 25 live performances will be offered, 8 platforms will be open to musical interaction (including amateur musicians on Saturday daytime) and 4 forums will provide an opportunity to remake the world…
The Port-Louis program begins with a kind ofafterwork on Friday evening, with Block Party, where electro meets live music from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m… Saturday, Lizour from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with debates and musical improvisations open to the public, before moving on to the three-part programme of Sanngat! program in the evening… Finally, Douser will recharge the batteries on Sunday evening, in anticipation of the following weekend…
