Sonwa

Hey New York I'm at the African Arts Festival on Castleton Avenue Saturday afternoon. August 27th.
The next day we're working on booking ourselves at Brownstone Jazz at the Sankofa Aban. Sunday the 28th.

The newest album from SONWA is now available.
Precious: For Lovers and Dancers

Peace family...
The next SONWA release is coming up in about a month from now. Its our Kwanzaa season compilation Cd titled "KWANZAA TIME"...Featured artists include Rudi Mwongozi, Poetess Kalamu Chache, Mxolisi Ozo Sowande and The Sankofa Voices, and Byron Kimbrough among others. It will drop sometime in the first week of December so stay connected to us and we'll keep you updated..Happy Kwanzaa..
Jazz Lives, Liberation Gospel is here

Greetings You are in touch with The Sound Of New World Afrikah. I'm working hard to finish the "Liberation Gospel" album and make it a more than worthy successor to the "Seeking Reality" album. When I look back on it the "Seeking Reality" album was a good campaign. An effective campaign. Thanks in large part to Ali Ar Rasheed. His the value of his assistance is inestimable. That album would not have been released with as much energy and potential had it not been for him. Then my Brother Far I Shields had his recording studio and together we produced some very nice recordings. Among them "Seeking Reality". Another who played a role was Valerie Allums. I also thank Dwayne Wiggins and his wife Michelle who let me open up my campaign at The Jahva House which they ran back then. Now I'm finishing "Liberation Gospel" in a few weeks. Our campaign for this one will be much better and more effective because we have this much more experience and acumen. I want to thank a few of those who have helped us to this point. Robert Honablue, Stanley Banks, Bill Hudson, Abdus-Sabor, Carolyn Maxwell, Sari MorningHawk, Mother's Tone, Nisa Kali, Pio Winston, David Bell, Tahirah Abdul-Haqq, Sharif Islam,Tami Tyree, and Ahmed Abdullah musician, teacher and director of the Bedford Village Ensemble. Believe it or not that's a SHORT LIST. But Love to you all and to the rest of my Family and Friends on Facebook stay with me and I will be alerting you soon about the album release shows and the ad campaign...Love and Blessings. Jazz Lives and Liberation Gospel is here

Welcome to the Sonwa page. I will be updating it with news and info from our activities. We are rehearsing for our show this December 10th at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn New York and completing the new album called "Liberation Gospel"