Experience Julián Pujols Quall with Mamey and special guest Kweku Sumbrey! Live at Sankofa

This live music performance and dialogue is part of MAMEY’s South Arts Jazz Road Artist Tour  in a project that highlights collaborative composition, transcultural exchange and the beautiful traditions and cultural resilience of Dominican and Caribbean musical arts. 

Mamey pays homage to Dominico-Haitian diasporic rhythms, combining experimental avant-garde music with

the folkloric and traditional music of the Caribbean, as part of a vision of the American continent as an

interwoven quilt of African threads from New Orleans jazz to the Dominican salve. The music draws inspiration

from Dominican bamboula, sarandunga de Baní, gagá and Haitian kompa and its influences include classical,

jazz and experimental/free music.

Mamey is the latest musical collaboration project founded by Julián. Why Mamey? Mamey is a fruit tree indigenous to the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean and the name evokes the tenacity of humans and the complicated historic conditions that forge identity. Beautiful traditions, our cultural fruits, have thrived for centuries despite oppression and injustice. Honoring this cultural resilience, we strive to promote new and vibrant art.