Guitarist Rob Coltun explains the concept behind The Tributary Project with elegant simplicity: “Our music flows from the essence of the beautiful music from various cultures while creating unified new sounds. All tributaries flow into a bigger body of water.” Rob wears many hats at Bossa – co-owner, sound guy,[…]
Bossa’s very own musical curator, Jim Thomson, is gifting DC with live world music during the entire month of October. His Flash of the Spirit Worldwide Sound Festival aims “to present emerging and remarkable international musicians from abroad as well as local musicians from our diverse immigrant communities to celebrate[…]
Bossa is pleased to welcome GranMah to our main stage. Not your average Mozambican garage band, these six artists – Luis Silva (guitar), Leo Fernandes (bass), Migz Wilson (drums), Regina dos Santos (vox), Miguel Marques (keys), and Ricardo Conceição (sax) – literally got their start in a garage, but their reach[…]
It is with weighted hearts that we at Bossa mourn the loss of our friend, Sierra Leonean artist Janka Nabay. Janka was a familiar face at Bossa, performing with his tribe of bubu music-makers, both as a headliner as well as a surprise guest – he was apt to pop-up appearances[…]