Event Preview: Winyo @ The Jago (London; Sunday, 9th August 2026)

Benga runs on interlocking guitars and a rhythm that does not let up, the sound that owned Kenyan pop for forty years. Winyo has spent twenty of those years playing it his own way, guitar in hand, singing in Luo and Swahili in a voice his countrymen named after a bird. He plays The Jago in Dalston on Sunday 9 August, a room of a couple of hundred, and most of the set is an album he has not…