Dawuna – Music Performance

7PM – Dawuna – Music Performance

Dawuna is the alias of singer and instrumentalist Ian Mugerwa Byenkya. Raised in Kenya and Virginia, Mugerwa trained in cello before experimenting with digital audio mixers and electronics in high school, leaving home soon after to join Richmond’s DIY scene. As Dawuna, Mugerwa Byenkya recorded his first album—the raw, transcendent Glass Lit Dream (2020)—in his apartment, quietly self-releasing the record online to word-of-mouth acclaim before it was picked up, remastered, and distributed by London label O___o? last year. Glass Lit Dream conjures a nocturnal feeling and naturally flows from gospel, soul, and R&B to more ambient, electronic, industrial sounds. His lyrics drift in and out of these gloaming soundings, oscillating between incantation and confession.

Performance will be held on September 10 as part of KinoSaito’s One Year Anniversary Celebration

Tickets for sale at Kinosaito.org/events

3 – 5PM Opening Reception – Kikuo Saito: Hatching Color

3 – 5PM Opening Reception – Signaling – Vivian Caccuri, Raven Chacon, Nikita Gale, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, L’Rain, Nicole Miller, and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

4:00 PM Gabriela Burdsall & William Ruiz Morales Dance Performance

5:45 PM Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Mixed media sound installation/performance and artist talk

7:00 PM   Dawuna – Music concert 

Refreshments complimentary with event ticket:

Food provided by Tipsy Taco Truck

Beer from Grimm Ales