Leni Sterns Returns To 6 On The Square
Published: February 1st, 2019

OXFORD – 6 On The Square is pleased to again welcome one of the Most Sensational Female Guitarists of All Time, Leni Stern, on Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. Stern brings her regular NYC-based Trio members with her, Mamadou Ba and Alioune Faye.

With a successful jazz career that saw her touring the globe on the stage of every major festival and legendary club, Leni began forging a new sound that is all her own. She began composing, studying, and practicing the rhythms and tonalities of West Africa through her chops of an accomplished jazz guitarist.

The compositions growing from this study pay humble homage to the drum patterns of traditional Senegalese folk songs. What emerges is a new repertoire of cross-pollinated ideas and reverence to jazz, to blues, to Africa, to a folk music of today’s diaspora.

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