Geli Berg aka DJ Mayeva ABOUT With a lifelong passion for World Music and Music of Black Origin, DJ Mayeva comes from a multicultural background with parents of Peruvian-Scottish and Norwegian-Irish origin.
Sam Maitland aka Papa Sam Alafia ABOUT Performer, singer-songwriter, recording artist and workshop facilitator, Papa Sam Alafia, moved to the UK in the late 1980s from Freetown, Sierra Leone in West Africa.
Mr Will and Bruce NCube ABOUT Individually already well-known on the UK and African world music scenes.
George Linton Aka Mento-B ABOUT known as Mento-B or Calypso George, George Linton is a stalwart of the Manchester Caribbean community, preserving and performing the songs of his Jamaican parents and grandparents.
AWAD ABSIN ABOUT Hailing from Rufaa, a town in Central Sudan, he was surrounded by the music of the Shukira tribe of nomadic camel herders, who traditionally sing and recite poetry to their animals.
