Tomorrow’s Warriors presents KIKIMIKI as part of the EFG London jazz Festival 2024.

KIKIMIKI is a new band from flautist and vocalist Keira Chakraborty, performing music that is rooted in jazz, mixed with indie and soul. Most of the band met at Tomorrow’s Warriors.

Keira has performed in locations such as London’s Jazz Cafe, the Royal Albert Hall, Dizzie’s Jazz club in New York and at festivals including We Out Here and Love Supreme.

Her influences include Elena Pinderhughes, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Joy Crookes, and Ezra Collective. You should expect to hear mostly originals with a line-up of flute, vocals, alto saxophone, piano, electric bass, and drums.

Tomorrow’s Warriors’ talent development programme has helped nurture an astounding list of award-winning alumni including Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd, Binker Golding and a whole host more. At the heart of this incredible musical movement is the ethos of ‘each one, teach one’, with each generation sharing their time and supporting the musicians that follow in their footsteps. The creative results are nothing short of inspiring and intoxicating, as witnessed in the new Tomorrow’s Warriors album, I Am Warrior.

For over 30 years, Tomorrow’s Warriors has played a vital role within its community and the wider music industry and has been credited with literally changing the face of UK jazz.

Free access to Tomorrow’s Warriors artistic programme has proved crucial in nurturing the nascent talent and early careers of so many of the most exciting UK artists currently tearing up the international jazz scene including Mercury Prize 2023 winners Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet, ESKA, Jason Yarde, Denys Baptiste, Robert Mitchell, Soweto Kinch, Shirley Tetteh, Byron Wallen…the list goes on.

A Black-founded and Black-led organisation, Tomorrow’s Warriors offers a pioneering, comprehensive programme of learning and training which champions and supports young Black and female talent and those who come from challenging circumstances that would be a barrier to accessing opportunities to pursue a music career.

Tickets £10

Karamel – 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ. The Karamel vegan kitchen will be serving food until 9.30pm. Email karamel8775@gmail.com to book a table for groups of 5+.

Doors open 7pm, music starts at 8pm.