From Thursday 22 through Sunday 25 October, Belgium’s concert calendar offers plenty of routes through jazz, club music and songwriter rooms. The week’s strongest single trip, though, is in Ghent on Saturday 24 October: Zap Mama and K.ZIA bring their shared Heritage é Motion project to Handelsbeurs (Ha Concerts). Its premise is unusually direct and unusually rich. Marie Daulne’s long-running Zap Mama meets the work of her daughter, K.ZIA, in a show built from their respective repertoires, a four-piece band, visuals and dance.[1][5]

That framing makes the evening feel like a piece of living local music history without turning it into a heritage exercise. Zap Mama’s official biography identifies Daulne as a Belgian-Congolese composer and performer whose music draws together vocal polyphony, Afropop, funk and soul. Her career has repeatedly made the voice a rhythmic, collective instrument; K.ZIA arrives from a different generation, with an Afro-European sound shaped by soul, alt-R&B and Afro influences. The encounter gives the night a genuine musical question: how do those languages share a stage?[3][4]

A shared repertory, two vocal languages

Ha Concerts calls this their first time sharing the stage, and that detail matters. Heritage é Motion is presented as a dialogue between generations, identity and the future of Afro-European music, with Daulne’s pioneering harmonies alongside K.ZIA’s contemporary approach. The billing offers a useful alternative to the usual support-slot logic: these are two complete artistic identities placed in conversation. Expect duets and individual moments within a single designed performance, instead of two isolated sets placed back to back.[1][5]

K.ZIA’s own biography supplies further context for the bridge. Based between London and Brussels, she has released three EPs and the album Genesis, and her forthcoming second album, HOMEFREEQUENCIES, includes a mother-daughter collaboration with Zap Mama. That makes the Ghent date part of an ongoing exchange, with family connection serving as an artistic method: songs, timbres and vocal approaches can move between artists with different reference points and audiences.[4]

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Two ways into the same Saturday

There is also an earlier, deliberately different entrance to the project. At 17:30, Tiny Tunes: Zap Mama + K.ZIA presents the pair in Ha Concerts’ child-friendly series, followed by a Ha’ppy meal at 18:15. The venue describes Tiny Tunes as adult music placed in a setting for younger listeners, generally aimed from age six upward; adults attend with a minor. Its ticket page currently marks the afternoon edition as sold out, which underlines how naturally this collaboration can reach across ages.[2]

For most readers, make the evening performance the destination. Doors open at 19:15 and the concert begins at 20:15, with DJ Kisa scheduled after the show at 22:00. Ha Concerts lists standing places and places the room at Kouter 29, 9000 Ghent. Recheck the official Ha Concerts pages before leaving for ticket availability, door times and any programme changes.[1][2]

Sources

  1. Zap Mama & K.ZIA 24-10-26 — Ha Concerts
  2. Tiny Tunes: Zap Mama + K.ZIA 24-10-26 — Ha Concerts
  3. Zap Mama — Zap Mama
  4. Biography — K.ZIA
  5. Zap Mama — Enzo Productions