Sámi yoik and Gabba

A world music concert at Kings Place in London, pairing traditional Sámi yoik singing with the act Gabba. The evening takes place in Hall Two of the venue.

Yoik is the traditional vocal music of the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia, sung without instrumental accompaniment. It is a form of chanting that traditionally evokes a person, a place or an animal rather than telling a story. Sámi yoik is the first of the two artists on this bill, and Gabba shares the evening with it in a programme that falls under world music.

Kings Place is an arts centre on York Way in King's Cross, close to the Regent's Canal, and it hosts concerts and shows across the year. Hall Two is one of its performance spaces, and the venue's programme spans music and theatre, so the evening suits listeners who want to hear indigenous vocal traditions in a concert setting, alongside a second act with a different approach to the stage.