OXFORD – 6 On The Square is pleased to again welcome one of the Most Sensational Female Guitarists of All Time, Leni Stern, on Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. Stern brings her regular NYC-based Trio members with her, Mamadou Ba and Alioune Faye.

With a successful jazz career that saw her touring the globe on the stage of every major festival and legendary club, Leni began forging a new sound that is all her own. She began composing, studying, and practicing the rhythms and tonalities of West Africa through her chops of an accomplished jazz guitarist.

The compositions growing from this study pay humble homage to the drum patterns of traditional Senegalese folk songs. What emerges is a new repertoire of cross-pollinated ideas and reverence to jazz, to blues, to Africa, to a folk music of today’s diaspora.

It has always been a political act, a practice in strength and defiance, to be a woman and a bandleader, a female electric guitarist and composer, who puts out her own albums and manages her own career for over 25 years. It is now even more essential to celebrate the immigrant experience that brought Leni Stern to the US from Germany, and her African bandmates from Senegal, and to revere the diverse languages in which she speaks and sings.