 New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Toubab Krewe, whose "TK2' studio album is out on Nat Geo Music, have a distinctive sound that "swirls together indie rock, African traditions, jam sensibilities, international folk strains and more" (Giant Step), are born collaborators. The quintet from Asheville, NC have traveled to West Africa many times to play and study with Lamine Soumano and other masters, have played with the Dead, reggae stalwart Earl "Chinna" Smith and Matisyahu, and recorded with Umar Bin Hassan of the Last Poets, among others. This past summer, at the Manifestivus festival in northern Vermont, the band showed their versatility by teaming up with two different hip-hop luminaries, resulting in funky percussive performances: Watch Toubab Krewe collaborating w/ Common: https://bit.ly/TK-Common Watch Toubab Krewe w/ Dres of Black Sheep: https://bit.ly/TK-Dres You'll see why the Roanoke Times called them "a jewel of diversity" and Afropop said, "Toubab Krewe have not conformed to conventionality but continued to explore and fuse various styles into a cohesive awesomeness." More about Toubab Krewe: https://www.shorefire.com/clients/tkrewe/ https://www.toubabkrewe.com/
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