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Welcome on the website of Fanfakids

The Fanfakids is a group of young musicians from youth-centre Centrum West in Molenbeek, Brussels, led by Bart Nagels. Musically, they’re accompanied by percussionists Jo Zanders and Louis Favre from vzw Met-X

The Fanfakids are founded as a result of the first Zinnekeparade in 2000 and they play a mix of South-American and (North-)African rythms on their homemade drums and imported tambourines, bells, nfars, checkeres etc...

They perform on stages of small and large festivals and cultural centres, during streetfestivals... especialy in Brussels and Flanders but they also begin to develop an international reputation. After their one week mini-tour through Flanders, with the boat ‘de Eliane’ of vzw Kanart in 2005, they went to Ghana and Morocco in 2006 as part of an exchange project. They also started to work with Ultima Vez for the youth-project Bêt Noir. In the summer of 2007 they performed for a whole month with the Twerammpon Traditionals, their Ghanian friends, on festivals in Belgium and Holland.

In 2008 they went back to Western Africa, where they did a tour with the Twerammpon Traditionals in Ghana, Togo and Benin.

In 2009 they colaborated with some acrobats from Guinée,'La Troupe ArtistiqueGandal Naamoudjimen ' , from de Circuspluimen van Centrum West and from Zonder Handen from Brussels. All those kids, from different cultural and social backgrounds, worked together during one month in the summer of 2009. Their shows had lots of succes with the public.

In 2010 they'll welcome Twerammpon Traditionals again in Belgium, and meet other youth in Italy and work something out with them.

On this site you can get acquainted with the kids themselves and watch videos and photos of their performances and projects.

You can also consult the agenda to know when and where they perform.