"Expect not to be disappointed" when the London African Gospel Choir returns to Bridport Electric Palace this month.

Ahead of the show on May 28 - The Bob Marley Songbook - we spoke to the choir's manager, Al Kassi, who founded the London African Choir with his former partner Crystal more than 15 years ago.

"I was going to church and I work in music as an agent and noticed the African gospel music," he said. "All over the country you have lots of different churches, but they are all different countries and they all have different gospel music. I thought there was a lot of talent so we started a choir."

The choir already had a repertoire of its own songs before Camden Jazz Café commissioned it to perform Paul Simon's Graceland in the wake of the album's 30th anniversary. Tickets sold out within hours so five more nights were added - which were all sell outs.

The Graceland project was "a Godsend" and since then the choir - which can have around 20 members - has had a number of stage and television appearance, some shared with stars such as Emile Sande, Mumford and Sons, Tom Jones and the Soweto Gospel Choir. Annie Lennox has invited the choir to perform at a number of prestigious events and it has also worked with actor Idris Elba on an album celebrating South African music, recorded in tribute to Nelson Mandela.

The London African Gospel Choir will also be featuring at Jubilation, Madness' festival to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

Al added: "We've never been funded, we've never asked for Arts Council funding, so I'm very proud of what we have achieved.

"We've reached places like the Barbican Centre, us alone sold out the whole place, and the achievements have been incredible.

"We set out to set up a pan-African platform of excellence. Being a country where lots of refugees arrive, there's a massive amount of talent amongst those people. We've got a wealth of talent from all parts of Africa to draw on and we've managed to draw that together.

Members come from all different parts of African Diaspora and one of the biggest highlights for the choir has been to tour America.

"We keep having highlights and achieving goals," Al said. "Some years ago, I said 'we have to play the Barbican', we achieved that and sold it out - we're not finished."

Asked what the audience in Bridport can expect when the London African Gospel Choir comes to the Electric Palace on May 28, he said: "Expect not to be disappointed. I think it's a privilege for Bridport and I think it's a privilege for the choir to be there."