A night of creative music and empowerment via Body Memori sensory practices through musical activation, creation and performance.
MANKWE NDOSI
is a Minneapolis-based Songcatcher, Composer, and Culture Worker, using creative and sensory practices to nurture connections between people and the land. Her efforts have included arts-centered community gatherings, community witnessing gatherings to support personal transformation from the inside out. Her unique sound blends genre-stretching vocal techniques with message and magic.
The Body Memori Tour 2026 deepens long-standing musical relationships that Mankwe has across the Northeast and South. The Body Memori builds on Mankwe’s critically acclaimed 2021 album felt/not said and shares Body Memori sensory practices through musical activation, creation and performance. She is blessed and honored to share the stage with Jamal Moore in DC, Philly and Baltimore, and with Dr. JoVia Armstrong and Dr. Nicole Mitchell in Richmond, VA.
JAMAL MOORE
is a native of Baltimore Maryland whom is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/performer and educator. His background include California Institute of The Arts (M.F.A. 2012), Berklee College of Music (B.M 2005), Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra (2000) under the direction of Christopher Calloway Brooks and historical acclaimed Frederick Douglass Sr. High whom notable alumni Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, and Ethel Ennis graduated from. Some notable luminaries Jamal has worked and recorded with are Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, Archie Shepp, David Ornette Cherry, Tomeka Reid, Dr. Bill Cole, DJ Lou Gorbea, George Duke, Sheila E, David Murray, JD Parran, Ras Moshe, Hprizm, (Antipop Consortium) Tatsua Nakatani, Hamid Drake and the late Yahyah Abdul Majid (Sun Ra Arkestra). He is an affiliate of The Pan African Peoples Arkestra of the late Horace Tapscott, Black Praxis of David Boykin, and member of Konjur Collective. Jamal currently leads his own groups, Akebulan Arkestra, Napata Strings, Black Elements Quartet, Organix Trio, and Mojuba Duo.
“As musicians we are healers of humanity and have a responsibility to cleanse dis- ease through positive tones, frequencies and vibrations. Music is the nucleus and universal language of the oversoul, mind, body and spirit.” – Jamal R. Moore
NIK FRANCIS
is a Washington, D.C.-based artist whose work centers on the drum kit, augmented by electronics and textural sound objects. His practice spans improvisation, electroacoustics, and experimental music. He performs in Mojuba Duo with Jamal Moore and We Were Here Before with Mark Cisneros and Luke Stewart. His music has been presented at Big Ears, Catalytic Sound Festival, Alexandria Jazz Fest, and the DC Jazz Festival. Through topology.systems, Francis maintains a library of solo work and collaborative projects documenting his approach to rhythm and sound.
