Join Senegalese bassist and composer Alune Wade and the Neighborhood Story Project for a screening of TUKKI: From the Roots to the Bayou, a new documentary film that traces the connections between West Africa, Louisiana and the greater Black music tradition.

Director Alune Wade and Co-producer Rachel Breunlin will be on hand for the film premiere of TUKKI: From the Roots to the Bayou, followed by the launch of their accompanying book, A Family Affair: Conversations Across the Atlantic(University of New Orleans Press).

This event coincides with the release of Family Affair, a new album by Alune Wade, rooted in Afro-Atlantic memory and contemporary dialogue, produced in collaboration with New Orleans's Neighborhood Story Project. On Tuesday, Oct. 13, Alune Wade and the Family Affair band perform a headlining show at National Sawdust.

Building on Wade’s acclaimed album New African Orleans (2025), which drew widespread praise for its fluid dialogue between West African traditions, contemporary jazz, and Louisiana heritage, Family Affair has the feel of a reunion — one that stretches across centuries of shared and scattered memory.

It is not a tribute project. It is a celebration of what these connections actually sound like when musicians on both sides of the Atlantic meet in a room.

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