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Taraf de Haidouks live on French radio

November 23, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 0 Comments

Romania’s Taraf de Haidouks will be making a special appearance on the France Inter radio show “Le Pont des Artistes”

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Last minute: African rap in Norway

October 16, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 0 Comments

In terms of diversity and colour, nothing beats African rap. We just got news that the South African band Black

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Uman adds hip-hop to ragga stylee

October 8, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 1 Comment

We just heard the first single from Original Uman’s album “L’aventure c’est l’aventure”. Uman made a mark for himself first

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Koçani Orkestar announce French dates

October 3, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 0 Comments

Macedonia’s incredible Koçani Orkestar have just announced a series of dates in France. YouTube has a video of them playing

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Pascal Schumacher European and Australian dates

September 28, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 0 Comments

We saw the Pascal Schumacher Quartet again just before the summer. What can we say? They are still as tight,

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Mamadou Konte remembered in Marseilles and Paris

August 1, 2007 admin 0 Comments

As mentioned below, the death of Mamadou Konte was a great loss to African music (and indeed the US and

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Fela Kuti son kicks up a live storm

July 11, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 0 Comments concert

Reviews of the Seun Kuti live shows with Egypt 80 in North America have been very good, with reviewers again

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Checkpoint 303: Free music from occupied territories

June 14, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 1 Comment

Apart from the Chehadé brothers, I had never really thought about Palestine as a source of music – and certainly

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Summer festivals, Part 1: Africa Fête

June 13, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 0 Comments

We’re beginning to get a lot of press releases concerning summer festivals. One we thought we’d highlight is the annual

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Visa problems for Konono N° 1 in Europe

June 4, 2007January 8, 2018 admin 0 Comments

The bad news this week is that the Konono N°1 European tour has been hit by the visa blues. The

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