Septet from Suriname Swinging Around Chicago

Chicago music fans will have three opportunities to experience live world music this week as Fra Fra Sound will perform in concert.

Based in the Netherlands, Fra Fra Sound, the Suriname-Caribbean septet, plays music of the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, Africa and Europe. Hear them on the northside at Old Town School of Folk Music, downtown at the Cultural Center or on the campus of Columbia College Chicago.

According to Columbia’s Center for Black Music Research, “The term Fra Fra has different meanings: it can imply volatility, difference and mystery, or unboundedness. Fra Fra is also the name of a people in the Northwest of Ghana. Fra Fra Sound uses the term to reflect the relationship between music, dance, religion and philosophy from the African diaspora and West Africa as well as its unpredictable and experimental approach to music.”