Mother Tongue // Anke Verslype Trio

On 6 March 2020, she stood on our stage as a student with the Breathing Ensemble. Now – one pandemic and five years later – Anke Verslype returns to Walter. This time with her own trio, together with Loni Cornelis and Artan Buleshkaj. Verslype embodies what the jazz department of the Antwerp Conservatory promises: freshly graduated musicians who create their own projects and draw in a new audience.

Afterwards comes Mother Tongue, the trio of Mola Sylla, Oscar Jan Hoogland and Frank Rosaly. Three musical explorers, each with their own compass: Sylla, griot from Dakar, weaving stories with rhythm and voice; Hoogland, Amsterdam keyboard phenomenon and inventor of an electric clavichord; and Rosaly, drummer who moved from Chicago to Amsterdam and has since seemed to be everywhere at once in the jazz and impro scene. Together: a new mother tongue you didn’t know you also spoke.