What's On This Week?
((All Tickets found at www.musicglue.com/karamel))
Kaiyo 3 with Denys Baptiste
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
£7.50 Early Bird £10 General Admission £5 Student
Denys is an amazingly versatile musician and, although his roots are steeped in the jazz tradition, he incorporates ideas from other musical forms and popular culture, producing a repertoire which is contemporary, multi-layered and highly accessible. He is also an enormously talented composer/arranger, whose brilliant compositions have already earned him immense critical acclaim.
He is much sought after soloist and has played/recorded with some of the biggest names in jazz including McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Bheki Mseleku, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, Julian Joseph and Jason Rebello!
Karamel - 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ. The Karamel vegan kitchen will be serving food until 9.30pm. Email karamel8775@gmail.com to book a table for groups of 3+.
Steel Pan Fusion
Friday, Apr 11, 2025
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
£7.50 Early Bird £10 General Admission £5 Student
Band Members:
Shayanna Harris - Vocal Wade Austin - Steel pan David Vine - Steel pan Andre Louis - Keyboard Sam “Blue” Agard - Drums Indigo Pearce - Bass Phillip Harper - Percussion
This contemporary Steel Pan group showcase the versatility of the Trinidadian instrument. Supremos of the pan Wade Austin and David Vine are supported by a number of fine musicians as they shift between traditional sounds and the shuffling beats of contemporary London." (Tom Short - The Musician, Journal of the Musicians Union) Steel Pan Fusion (SPF) is led by Trinidadian Born Wade Austin who is on a mission to bring Steel pan to the masses.
SPF has been around for a good decade, releasing their Debut album "Melting Pot" back in 2016. With a 2nd EP release in 2022 “Steel Pan Fusion”.
Featuring a group of musicians who are familiar faces on the UK/London live music scene for over 20 years.
Expect to be tapping your foot. Dancing to the infectious grooves. Funk, Soul, Afrobeat and Jazz fused with some traditional elements from Trinidad and the Caribbean.
Band leader Wade Austin and David Vine are virtuoso Steel Pan players that are pushing the boundaries of the instrument to new horizons.
Karamel - 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ. The Karamel vegan kitchen will be serving food until 9.30pm. Email karamel8775@gmail.com to book a table for groups of 3+.
And What's On Next Week?
ZerOclasikal: Free Flow Classikal
Thursday, Apr 17, 2025
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
£7.50 Early Bird £10 General Admission £5 Student
Free Flow Classikal is returning to Karamel on popular demand with a very exciting lineup: sitarist and bassist Jihad Darwish, drummer Moses Boyd and percussionist Magnus Mehta. Join us for a moving exploration of South Asian Classical music through the medium of free improvisation. No boundaries - No limits.
Jihad Darwish is a musician, composer, and producer whose artistic journey has evolved towards a deep exploration of sitar and Indian classical music. After years of working across jazz, folk, and contemporary music, collaborating with artists such as Sting, Van Morrison, Anderson Paak, Eric Bibb, Imelda May, Mica Paris and Arthur Verocai, he has increasingly focused on integrating the sitar’s rich tradition into his compositions. His 2023 album 4 Parakeets marked a pivotal moment in this transition, drawing from traditional ragas while blending jazz modal harmony and Western song structures. The album received 4-star reviews from Jazzwise and UK Vibe and was featured on BBC Radio and Jazz FM. Having performed at venues from Ronnie Scott’s and the Barbican to the Sydney Opera House and Montreux Jazz Festival, Darwish now channels his diverse musical background into reimagining the sitar’s role in contemporary music, exploring new sonic possibilities through improvisation, electronics, and cross-genre collaboration.
Moses Boyd is a Mercury-nominated composer, producer and drummer, known as a prominent figure within the modern London jazz scene. Nominated for a Mercury Prize for his debut album Dark Matter. Born and raised in South London, Moses began playing drums at the age of 13, taking as much inspiration from jazz greats like Miles Davis as from the grime albums of Dizzee Rascal, contributing to his original approach. After graduating from Trinity Laban College of Music and Dance, cutting his teeth at local jam sessions, he formed the duo Binker & Moses; their debut, Dem Ones, earned an award for Best Jazz Act at the MOBO Awards, which he then won again for himself a few years later. Boyd has also collaborated with Artist such as Lonnie Liston Smith, Obongjayar Zara McFarlane, Floating Points and Four Tet and many more.
*Magnus Mehta *is a percussionist, drummer, music producer and composer. London born to an Indian father and Scottish mother, Magnus was excited by rhythmic sounds from an early age, initially requesting a drum kit aged 10, and consequently studying timpani and percussion at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. After playing in all of the major Scottish orchestras Magnus took a radical change of direction and relocated to Cuba to further his musical studies. Magnus has built a reputation as a session musician who moves fluidly between a multitude of genres, having worked with artists such as Jacob Collier, Brian Eno, Damon Albarn, Bastille, Moses Boyd, Ibibio Sound Machine, Sarathy Korwar, Dengue Dengue Dengue, El Búho, Cassie Kinochi and Melt Yourself Down. He is also in demand on the London musical theatre and live performance scene on shows such as Abba Voyage, Tina the Musical, The Lion King, Ain’t Too Proud, Bend it like Beckham, and for companies such as Royal Opera House, LSO, National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Matthew Bournes’s New Adventures, and Rambert. Magnus has played on numerous soundtracks including ‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One’, ‘The Hobbit, an unexpected journey’, the Channel 4 ‘Indian Summers’ series, and the Iranian film ‘Hussein Who Said No’.
The zerOclasikal project was set up in 2013 as platform for a radical approach to south Asian classical music - facilitating progressions, experiments, and developments in the genre, through a ‘contemporary’ mindset.
Commissioning of new work and organizing the frequency of performance is our central mission and activity. We are also setting up infrastructures for an industry for next-gen south Asian classical musicianship, trained in the UK - such as building of a touring circuit, agency and recording label.
Karamel - 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ. The Karamel vegan kitchen will be serving food until 9.30pm. Email karamel8775@gmail.com to book a table for groups of 3+.
London Vegan Mixer: social + open mic + karaoke
Saturday, Apr 19, 2025
Starts 7pm
Free!
MIXING COCKTAILS, TUNES... AND VEGANS!
🎟️ Entry: totally free, just RSVP! 🗓 Date: Saturday, 19 April 2025 🕙 Time: 7:00 PM – midnight 📍 Location: Karamel Club - 4 Coburg Rd, London N22 6UJ 💬 WhatsApp group: https://tinyurl.com/JoinLondonVeganMixer
🪩 Join us for a fabulously fun night at Karamel, where we'll take over the entire venue: socialise in the restaurant area over food and drinks, or showcase your talents on stage! (There will always be a seating area dedicated to quieter conversations.)
🍔 THE FOOD Karamel's fully vegan menu varies every time! The selection for the night will be announced on a blackboard. It usually includes a few daily specials as well as staples like burgers, pizzas, and a variety of delicious sides and desserts.
🍹 THE DRINKS Beer on tap, wine by the glass, and a selection of cocktails and mocktails: Karamel's fully vegan bar has something for every taste.
👩🎤 THE MUSIC The first part of the evening will feature an open mic night where anyone is welcome to showcase their talents (musical or otherwise), opened by Mixer regular Alfie Paca 🦙
Starting around 9 PM, KaraoChris will host karaoke for the rest of the night: sign up to jump on stage and sing your heart out! Karamel have kindly offered a meal for two as a prize for the best singer.
🤗 ATTENDING Entry to the event is totally free, but please do support the venue by buying some of their delicious food and drinks (both 100% vegan!).
All are welcome, and we strive to make the event a safe and inclusive space for everyone - no discriminatory or abusive behaviour of any kind will be tolerated.
🌱 THE VENUE Karamel is a very short walk from Wood Green Tube station (Piccadilly Line). The entrance to the venue is step-free and there is a wheelchair-accessible toilet. Karamel is dog-friendly, so feel free to bring your furry friends if they'll enjoy it.
Originally founded and run by vegan activists, today it’s operated by Collage Arts (a charity supporting the local community) and managed by the lovely Kath who, together with her charming husband Roger, also prepares the delicious homemade food served there… in very generous portions 😉 and at fairly affordable prices!
For well over a decade now, Karamel has been at the heart of London’s vegan community, helping it reach its current size - for example:
giving a new home to London Vegan Drinks (Europe’s largest vegan social gathering at the time!) when it outgrew its preceding venues providing a welcoming environment for LGBTQ+ vegans (inclusivity and safeguarding having always been a central tenet of theirs) with Fat Gay Vegan's Queer Vegan Disco throwing official or de facto afterparties for many Animal Rights marches and protests Nowadays, they host our sister event, the regular board game event Geekstraveganza (as they’ve done since its inception in 2016), and a lot of other wonderful events for the local area and the wider London vegan community.
Hope to see you there! :D
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