Colchester Arts Centre, 30 Nov 2026
Tickets £15 / £14 concs
This gig is for a seated audience
Musical explorers and eclectic Acoustic Roots duo MAMBO JAMBO have an infectious passion for playing live, delighting audiences with their upbeat shows, their original songs and all their instruments!
Their music fuses magically crafted elements of folk, roots, world music - plus bluegrass! A fabulous musical treat is in store wherever they roll up, their tour bus packed to the brim with instruments. Frankie is on sax, vocals, clarinet, flute, uke, guitar, and Pete on guitar, vocal, banjo, tres (traditional Cuban guitar), accordion, and between them all kinds of percussion including suitcase and spoons!
Pete and Frankie have appeared on various BBC Radio shows (UK), and MTV Asia, and have been gathering admirers at shows and festivals in the UK, Europe and Internationally; Festivals include Costa Del Folk in Portugal, Voix Des Pays and St Patrick Cavan Celtic in France, Sidmouth, Broadstairs, Beverley and Shetland Folk (UK), Musicport, Cork (IRL) Jazz, Borneo Jazz, International Eisteddfod (Wales), etc. Tours of France, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Sweden and played concerts as far afield as Borneo, Havana and Reykjavik.
YouTube Clips:
https://youtu.be/9ea2G2_ofHA
https://youtu.be/GfsrR4GBcHc?si=L2uz3m2Od4Eb_hT7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlWlrwvHqHo
Never knowingly understood.
Church Street, Colchester, CO1 1NF
01206 500 900 / info@colchesterartscentre.com