21/10/2025
Secret Planet Presents: DOGO DU TOGO ✨🇹🇬 This Saturday, October 25th�
Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band is a collective of top Togolese musicians led by Massama Dogo, aka Dogo du Togo, who are putting Togolese music on the map by blending psychedelic rock and afrobeat into a genre-defying sound Dogo calls the "Alagaa Beat."
Combining iconic rhythms of the Ewe, Mina, Ga, and Kabye people, alagaa blossoms from a complex interplay between the drum kit and rhythm guitar, with a distinctive double snare hit and a guitar part based on the traditional gankogui bell pattern.
The Alagaa beat (Alagaa means trance in Ewe) and Dogo's melodies are anchored in Togo’s rich cultural history, based on traditional rhythms and unique pentatonic scales known as Mina or Mami, derived from the music of the local Vodún religion and traditions that permeate everyday life in Togo.
Selector Tomás (of Planetary HiFi Radio) on the 1s and 2s with a groove-heavy global musical experience for you.
And a very special Iraqi-jewish sandwich pop-up will be pumping out hot veggie pitas all night from the kitchen.
BAR & FOOD POP-UP at 5PM
GENERAL DOORS + DJ 6PM
TICKETS $20 ADV / $25 DOOR
ALL AGES
At the Iron Horse in Northampton.
www.secretplanet.live/dogo
Dogo du Togo artwork by Tory Newmyer.
