Solo and Ellika
first met on the stage of a club in Stockholm in 1998. There, Senegalese folk music or griotmusic, met the Swedish polska.

Solo is a bearer of his people’s history from a very long story-telling tradition, Ellika’s music has deep roots in the wildly joyous story-telling tradition of Bingsjö. Together they make music where song, combined with the kora’s rythmical flow, form a colourful platform for the polska.

Ellika & Solo have been playing together since then and have toured in the USA, Africa, Greenland and many parts of Europe. Their ongoing dialogue between fiddle and kora feels just as exciting and unpredictable now as it did on their last outing.