Orchestra Baobab

15 Jun 2025

Philharmonic Hall

The critically acclaimed Senegalese group Orchestra Baobab will play the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall this summer, as part of a fundraising series of shows for the Africa Oyé festival.

With a historical mix of Afro-Cuban style, international pop, and traditional griot music, and an after-dark nightclub ambience of lilting, mellifluous rhythms, Orchestra Baobab are now embracing the 21st century with a renewed international fame, sure to get both old and young audiences dancing to their classic tunes in Liverpool.

Orchestra Baobab’s story began back in the 1960s. In a fashionable club in Dakar, built around a baobab tree, the band developed their distinctive take on a raft of styles – and set the tempo for a new era of Senegalese and African music.