La Sonora & Le Mondo present LA MANGA featuring Konjur Collective and Ojos Magníficos.
From the coasts of Colombia to the heart of Baltimore — La Manga (@lamangabk) is a cultural identity laboratory rooted in the ancestral traditions of Bullerengue, Cumbia, and Tambora. Honoring Black and Indigenous oral traditions, this all-woman Brooklyn-based collective channels the pulse of Afro-Colombian drums—Tambor Alegre, Tambora, and Llamador—and celebrates life through the sacred art of bailes cantaos.
Founded by Daniela Serna, Andrea Chavarro, Katherine Ocampo, and Lina Fernanda Silva, La Manga uses percussion as a portal to connect universes and create community. The collective has been featured in the New York Times and on NYC stages including Joe ́s Pub, Nublu, Moma PS1, Museum of the City of New York, Museum at Eldridge Street, Queens Theater, Bronx Music Heritage Center, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Arrebato Queer Party.
Konjur Collective, founded in 2018 by Bashi Rose, engages in improvisation and ritual rooted in ancestral and radical forgeries of sound with intentions of evoking collective healing/release and feelings/visions of a revolutionary future. Konjur embraces musical approaches from throughout the African Diaspora and the world, but their primary creative pulse comes from their collective experience in Baltimore. It provides a rich, raw, love-filled, fearless musical grounding that is absolutely needed during these days and times. Konjur also include radical experimental video and spoken-word in their ritual allowing those who experience Konjur to have a visceral and cerebral processing of radical ideas and imagery.
Ojos Magníficos is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans Ancestral Tattoo Ceremonies, videos, paintings, critical theory, performances, art installations, text, audio, graphic design and illustration work. Ojos Magníficos creates spiritual & physical decolonial ancestral portals for shared, transformative, collective healing by honoring the sacred knowledge found in Black, Brown, Indigenous decolonial survival & culture, in order to realign our collective spirit.