Kumasi plays Fela and some 1970s afro-funk from Ghana and Benin, but the majority of their set is original: heavy rhythms, spontaneous improvisation, and an inclusive, participatory spirit that captures Afrobeat at its most infectious. They have won the Gambit's Best of the Big Easy award for Best World/Latin Music in 2017 and 2019.
The band has three LPs: Togetherness (2015), Akoben (2018) — their second release, issued on the UK's Soul Jazz Records and laced with call-and-response vocals — and Live at Marigny Studios (2021), their first live record, with four original compositions folding in rhythms from New Orleans and the wider Afro-diaspora, from Cuba and Haiti to Brazil.
Kumasi plays French Quarter Fest and Bayou Boogaloo and holds monthly gigs at venues across the city — the Blue Nile, the Broadside, Zony Mash — and threw a Lundi Gras Throwdown at BJ's Lounge in February 2026.
