Konjur Collective (Bashi Rose, Jamal Moore, King Solomon Bishop) - Bashi Rose is a Baltimore-based filmmaker, teaching artist, theatre artist, and musician. His work has been produced or screened at venues including Centerstage in Baltimore, Theatre Project, Creative Alliance, the Schomburg Center in Harlem, VH1 Soul, the Lafayette Theatre in New York City, Black Panther Party Film Festival, Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival, and the San Francisco Black Film festival. Bashi began playing the drum-kit as a creative tool for mental/spiritual healing and as a bridge between the spirit and physical world— connecting him to his ancestors. In 2019 he was honored to play drum-kit on the Ocean Bridges album with the legend Archie Shepp. In 2018 he cofounded Konjur Collective which incorporates the talents of a host of musicians and artists forming a creative mash-up of high-level artistic expression for the advancement of experimental, radical, spiritual, and improvisational Black Music and culture.
Mojuba Duo (Jamal Moore, Nik Francis) Jamal R. Moore is a native of Baltimore, a multi-instrumentalist, composer/performer and educator. His background includes the California Institute of The Arts (M.F.A. 2012), Berklee College of Music (B.M 2005), Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra (2000) under the direction of Christopher Calloway Brooks and historically-acclaimed Frederick Douglass Sr. High whose alumni include Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, and Ethel Ennis. Jamal currently leads his own groups, Akebulan Arkestra, Napata Strings, Black Elements Quartet, Organix Trio, Interstellar Duo and co-leads Ancestral Duo with Luke Stewart. Nik Francis is an improvising musician based in the D.C. area. His music focuses on the drum kit, often incorporating electronics and small acoustic instruments.
