Tickets
General: $30
Members: $25
Student/Youth (18 and under): $15
*Please Note: This Concert has been moved from Thursday, July 11th to FRIDAY, July 12th. All tickets will be honored for the new date. If you have any questions or concerns, please email: info@thechurchsagharbor.org
CONCERT: 6 PM
DOORS OPEN: 5:30 PM
Albino Mbie, the multi-award-winning Mozambican musician and sound renaissance man, returns to The Church for an evening of sound, story, and inspiration. The Church is thrilled about his return and invites audiences to an evening of a developed unique sound, peppered with stories of heartfelt experience and rooted in Jazz. Come listen and learn from the man who built his first guitar from a 5-liter can of oil, scrap wood, and strings made out of electrical chords.
The musician, who doubles as a professor of Music at Berklee College, is fueled by resourcefulness, intrigued by the fusion of elements, and inspired by his multicultural experience, all of which he integrates into his music providing audiences with a rich sound full of diversity and grounded in experience.
Audiences may remember him from the summer of 2022 when he played during Hamptons Jazz Fest or from the Spring of 2023 when he treated audiences to a concert entitled Me and You here at The Church. And for those who have yet to discover Mbie’s Magic, we encourage you to purchase tickets now before they are gone!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Albino Mbie
Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Composer, Sound Engineer, Music Producer, and Berklee College of Music Professor
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Albino Mbie is a multi award-Winning Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Composer, Sound Engineer, Music Producer, and a Berklee College of Music Professor in Boston. He w a s born in Kamubukwane District, Bairro George Demitrove, well known as Benfica, in the suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique, the capital city of Mozambique, a country in Southern Africa known for its rich musical and cultural heritage. Fueled by the resourcefulness and determination that have always characterized Mozambicans, he built his first guitar at age 15 from a 5-liter can of oil, scrap wood, and strings made from electrical cords. He moved to the US to attend Berklee College of Music in 2009, being among the first Africans awarded a full tuition scholarship via the Berklee African Scholars Program. In 2013, he graduated with a dual major in Music Production & Sound Engineering and Guitar Performance and dual minors in Acoustics and Electronics. Since then, he has shared his Mozambican roots-music, dance, culture, and native languages enriched by the experience of living and studying in the US with the rest of the world. During the years, he learned to combine rhythmic patterns and musical concepts to create a unique Marrabenta, Nikatche, Afro-Pop, and Moz- Jazz sound.
His passion for travel, discovery, experimentation, to be an active touring musician allowed him to share the stage with godfathers of American jazz, such as Wayne Shorter, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, and more, as well as African giants such as Richard Bona, Jimmy Dludlu, Mulatu Astatke and many more.
He started music education formally in Mozambique, where the higher education system exclusively taught western traditions and social structure. The educational perspective did not empower African music traditions and had a name for the desired outcome, an empiric musician. Forced to study the western music education system to fit in, he felt marginalized and excluded in his own country and society.
In 2009, he was granted a scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in the US. His main objective in pursuing higher education at Berklee was to learn music directly from African descendants in the diaspora and how they could bring their voices, grow in their music and culture, and build community in such a hostile environment.
After three years of jazz guitar education at the Berklee College of Music, he was longing for home. He needed to reconnect with his Mozambican roots to combine it with the newer musical influences. He searched for mentors, Richard Bona and Lionel Loueke, who could support him in finding his voice and guiding him in the process of discovery, reappropriation, and inspiring for growth toward who he is today. In this research path, he has learned the power music holds, African music, in particular, in breaking down social and cultural barriers.