Live After Dark: AJOYO

Visit The Porch at Bryant Park, and enjoy intimate concerts with talented local artists.

AJOYO is the vision of multi-reed player Yacine Boularès, a mystic brew blending African tradition, jazz and soul. More than music, it's a joyful ceremony, a fuller experience bringing musicians and audience closer together. AJOYO chants in the name of Tony Allen, Oum Khalsoum, Charlie Parker, and Donnie Hathaway, stomps towards you in the eye of the dancer, arms open, horns, bell and bass interwoven like the fabric of a ceremonial dress, and speaks the language of the talking drum with a New York accent. Originally from Tunisia in North Africa (by way of Paris), Boularès has played sax, composed and arranged music for Cameroonian musicians such as former Fela Kuti drummer Jojo Kuo, the late Martino Atangana, Haitian Kompa legends Tabou Combo, and Placido Domingo's album Encanto Del Mar.