Ezra Collective for Dublin show

The Mercury Music Prize 2023 winners are playing Dublin this November.

The English modern jazz band have just announced a new single and video for ‘Ajala’, the first since their Mercury-winning album Where I’m Meant To Be and UK and European tour dates.

Their Dublin show happens at 3Olympia Theatre on November 11th 2024.

Tickets from €24.50 plus booking fees on sale Friday 3rd May at 10AM from Ticketmaster.

“’Ajala’ interpolates the sounds of Afrobeats and Highlife with Jazz, the single nods to the nomadic spirit of the infamous Olabisi Ajala, the Ghanaian-Nigerian world adventurer who ambitiously took on touring the world on his scooter, covering 87 countries.

Femi Koleoso on “Ajala”:

‘Ajala the Traveller is a journalist from Nigeria whose story is really beautiful. He decided that he wanted to travel the whole world on a moped and what ended up happening was his name became slang in Yoruba.

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‘Ajala travel’ is slang for someone that can’t sit still. It’s the way a lot of people would describe me, but for me it’s also what a great drum beat does, it’s what great music does to me, it means I can’t sit still and I just want to move. Ajala is all about that movement.’

Ezra Collective Upcoming Tour Dates

Fri August 16 2024 – NORFOLK Earlham Park
Tue October 15 2024 – BERLIN Astra (Germany)
Wed October 16 2024 – HAMBURG Docks (Germany)
Fri October 18 2024 – COPENHAGEN Amager Bio (Denmark)
Sat October 19 2024 – STOCKHOLM Vasateatern (Sweden)
Sun October 20 2024 – OSLO Rockefeller (Norway)
Tue October 22 2024 – COLOGNE Gloria (Germany)
Thu October 24 2024 – AMSTERDAM Paradiso (Netherlands)
Sat October 26 2024 – LYON Transbordeur (France)
Sun October 27 2024 – MILAN Magazzini Generali (Italy)
Mon October 28 2024 – ZURICH Kaufleuten (Switzerland)
Wed October 30 2024 – PARIS Olympia (France)
Thu October 31 2024 – LILLE Aeronef (France)
Fri November 01 2024 – BRUSSELS Ancienne Belgique (Belgium)
Wed November 06 2024 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
Thu November 07 2024 – LEEDS Project House
Fri November 08 2024 – GLASGOW Barrowland
Sun November 10 2024 – MANCHESTER O2 Apollo
Mon November 11 2024 – DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre
Wed November 13 2024 – BRISTOL Beacon
Fri November 15 2024 – LONDON OVO Arena Wembley

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