​TIOMBÔ is a creation born with the support of Villes des Musiques du Monde and directed by Françoise Degeorges. A project at the service of sharing between cultures and generations, a celebration of ancestors, a prayer of the soul, a jubilant trance.
 
On stage, two griots of today: Menwar (Mauritius, master of the ravanne drum) and Olivier Araste (Reunion, leader of the group Lindigo), Kersley Sham (percussionist of Mauritian origin) and Fixi (France) at the piano and especially to the accordion present in all the islands of the Indian Ocean, from Madagascar to Reunion, to Mauritius, Rodrigues, Seychelles.
 
The decor is set: that of the courtyard of a Creole kaz, chronicle of daily life, where we meet, where we exchange, where we live.
 
The maloya and the sega drum together, it is the muted music of the sugar cane fields that is heard in broad daylight. It is the soul of a people. The powerful and poetic texts, the rhythms and the songs of TIOMBÔ let rise "Babani", the Spirit... They resuscitate the voice of the elders of Africa and Madagascar, emanate from the Indian land, retrace the eventful history of the interbreeding of our islands and the world today.
 
Françoise DEGEORGES: Artistic direction
PRODUCTION: World Music Cities
BROADCASTING: Soraya Camillo / SOTAK MUSIK