FlamenKora: Ancestral Crossings and New‑World Fire

For the first time in New York City, FlamenKora steps onto the DROM stage carrying the breath of three distant homelands—Senegal, Brazil/Spain, and finally New York—woven into one luminous musical current. This is music shaped by migration, memory, and the ancient pathways between continents. Their music is a living tapestry: kora lines that glimmer like desert constellations, flamenco harmonies that crackle with earth and ember, trumpet melodies that rise like wind over water. FlamenKora sketches Spain in an African way, guided by the spirit of jazz and the deep memory of the griot tradition. Their debut album, FlamenKora, earned international acclaim, and their forthcoming release—recorded at the Paul Manship Artists Residency and completed at the Goethe‑Institut Madrid—will appear on Motéma Music. On this night at DROM, three origins meet, three histories breathe together, and a new musical world unfolds in real time. Let yourself be carried into the crossing.