Hello all,

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us in November and December in Portland, Corvallis, and Seattle, we had a nice little run of shows!

We’re taking a couple of months off of gigging to work up a bunch of great new material and get ready for lots of spring and summer activity including an appearance at the Portland Jazz Festival in February and a regional tour in March/April in Seattle, Portland, Salem, and Port Townsend, among other nearby cities.

Meanwhile you can still find our new album “Cascades” for purchase and download in numerous locations, which we will humbly re-link to below.  There’s some samples from it over at the “Listen” page and be sure to stay tuned for our updated gig schedule as we emerge from the winter!

The Kora Band – “Cascades” (OA2 Records)

Purchase at Amazon

Purchase at OA2 Records

Download MP3 at Amazon

Download at emusic

We'll be sharing a bill this Friday night in Portland with our trumpeter Chad McCullough's own project featuring a great guest over in the U.S. this month from Holland: Slovak-born pianist Michal Vanoucek.  Chad, Michal, and Andrew all attended the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in Canada in 2009.  After that, Chad joined the Kora Band and →

We're excited to be playing the opening night of year's Earshot Jazz Festival at Tula's Jazz Club in Seattle.  This will be our first time playing at this excellent festival which presents a lot of great national and international artists alongside Seattle and Portland-based groups.  We packed out our CD release at Tula's last month and we hope to do →

Today is the official street date for our new album "Cascades"!  We're also happy to announce that we were listed at #22 on the JazzWeek Radio Charts for this week!  You can now purchase and download our album at Amazon as well as from many other outlets online and in stores. Here are a few links, we hope you enjoy the →

Thanks to everyone who came out to our recent shows in Oregon, Washington, and California, we had a great time on the road and we were glad to play a lot of really fun shows.  The Red Poppy in San Francisco and Sacramento State University were two very different but enjoyable shows to finish off a nice debut tour.  The →

Well our tour is progressing along nicely, we've escaped the Northwest rain here in California! On Wednesday night we had a fun gig at the Avalon Bar and Grill in Talent, OR, where the people are extremely nice and generous and the vibe was suitably positive. Thursday we drove a long way down to San Jose, but the drive was quite enjoyable →

Well our Cascades CD release tour is underway and going very well!  We kicked it off with a killer Seattle CD Release show at Tula's on Thursday night with a great turnout and a very appreciative crowd.  The band played great and we were lucky to have Daniel Sheehan in the audience from EyeShot Jazz, taking some great pictures.  You can →

Our brand new album, "Cascades" is now available for purchase at the website of our label, OA2 Records!  Digital downloads will be available in a week or so, stay tuned.  Hope you enjoy the music! The Kora Band - Cascades (at OA2 Records)

Hello all and welcome to the new site!  We're excited to be touring the West Coast in September in support of our new album "Cascades."  We've just posted the whole tour schedule at the shows page, so have a look and mark your calendars!  We'll be playing in Seattle, Olympia, Lincoln City, Talent (near Ashland), San Jose, San Francisco, Sacramento, →

We're excited to announce that our second album, "Cascades," will be out on Origin Records this September!  It's a new collection of traditional and original music that we've been working on for about a year.  We'll be touring the west coast in September in support of its release!  We'll be playing in Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Lincoln City, Talent (near Ashland), →