Gallo, a highly-rated bassist and percussionist, released “Dida” and “Lowlin” on the IglooMondo label. More details are available  on the IglooMondo site. Click through for the Polish tour dates.

7 of April, 2011 :Katowice
8 of April, 2011 : ?widnica
9 of April, 2011 : Ostro??ka
11 of April, 2011 : K?dzierzyn-Ko?le
13 of April, 2011 : Rybnik
14 of April, 2011 : Jas?o
15 of April, 2011 : Przemy??
16 of April, 2011 : Tychy

Amkoullel

Invited by various universities and students organisations committed to education and social change through Hip Hop, AMKOULLEL will be doing workshops, panels and performances with his multi-instrumentalist musician playing Ngoni and Talking Drums. He will also play in various NY and LA clubs… the buzz is growing fast!!

Amkoullel is recognised as the most talented and socially committed Malian rapper, combining traditional and contemporary global cultures to promote social responsibility. With his unique charisma and style, he touches all audiences and is boosting the image of Africa through education and culture. Amkoullel is a cultural entrepreneur, a successful TV presenter, a producer and actor as well. In 2009, Amkoullel was honoured at the Mali Hip-Hop Awards three times. In 2010 he released his 4th album Ne Ka Mali!!with 4 amazing videos. 2011 started with the Festival in the Desert and will definitely be the year of Amkoullel’s international launch.

Amkoullel US tour dates 2011
April 1 – 3 Trinity International Hip Hop festival  Trinity College Hartford CT Trinityhiphop.org
April 1                     Workshop with students learning French
April 2                     Show w/ The Reminders, Eekwol, Emicida, Omar Offendum
April 5 – 12 New York area
April 5 Workshops  NJ Hip Hop Education Week Essex County College
April 6                      Show The Loft, Public Assembly Brooklyn w/ Spazecraft and Van-Inc Sohnup.com/
April 7 8:00 pm   Showcase The Shrine Harlem www.shrinenyc.com/ 11:00 pm   Guest on Nomadic Massive show 92YTribeca
April 9 10:45 am   NJ Hip Hop Education Week Performance w/African collective of musicians and artists  + all day conference Salif Keita’s After Party Farafina Club Harlem Farafina Cafe Harlem
April 10  10:30 pm   Showcase Zebulon cafe concert Brooklyn zebuloncafeconcert
April 12                    Workshops at the International Community High School  Bronx www.ichs.weebly.com
April 14- 17   Los Angeles Meeting students at UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies 10 pm       ShowcaseAfrofunke - Zanzibar club Santa Monica www.afrofunke.com
April 15 -16            More workshops, promotion and performance
April 17/18             Return to Bamako via NY and Paris

The concerts tie in with the release of their new album “$O$”. Click through for the full dates.


Die Antwoord
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Die Antwoord on tour in North America:

10/12 Vancouver, BC - Commodore
10/13 Seattle, WA - Paramount *
10/14 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
10/15 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island
10/16 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island
10/17 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre
10/22 Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre *
10/23 Detroit, MI - St. Andrew’s Hall
10/24 Toronto, ON - Phoenix
10/25 Montreal, QC - Metropolis
10/26 Boston, MA - Royale
10/27 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
10/29 New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom *
10/30 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Festival

* with Deadmau5

In 1999, Ojos de Brujo recorded its first album, ‘Vengue’ (a gypsy word for the energy that flows through life). It was a homemade production that captured the attention of critics and the public alike, and news of the band’s performances spread rapidly. ”Barí’ (”joy” or “virtual essence” in Caló) was the band’s next step. Now, without industry pressure, they were free to take a new direction. They presented ‘Barí’ to enthusiastic fans across the globe between 2002 and 2005, through several tours in Latin America and the U.S., playing in the most important jazz, rock, and world music festivals such as Glastonbury, Rosklide, Summerstage NY Central Park, Lowlands, Montreal Jazz… Japan, Colombia, Morocco, Cuba, Mexico, Hungary, France, and Germany.

For more about them, visit Ojos de Brujo.

His site is now FilipFilipi.com

The Kafa Beanz is a group of solo artists who share a passion for Africa and a desire to expose their music to the world. Four of the five members are of Ethiopian origin, and the exotic sounds of East Africa are evident in their music.
- To purchase Andromeda, visit: Addis Tunes.

Date: Sunday 31st of May 2009
Location: At Circolo degli Artisti // via Casilina Vecchia 42, Rome
Time: 22h30 (Free entrance)
Line-up: SC MoCha (electronics+laptop+Oud) & SC Yosh (live visuals)

Palestine Co. Venice - Symposia and Events
Location: Convento Ss. Cosma & Damiano, Campo S.Cosmo, Giudecca Palanca, Venice.
Dates: June 7 - September 30, 2009

As part of the first Palestinian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale a series of performances and symposia will take place including a performance by Khalil Rabah and the Ramallah Syndrome Sound-System performance on the opening reception.  These events will include performances by Aswatt (RU collective) and Ruanne Abu-Rahme.

There are also plans for the group to appear again in San Francisco.

An accomplished group of international performers and academia will support K’naan and participate with attendees though workshops, panel discussions and films throughout the festival.

The Spread the Word Tour has added Trinity Hip-Hop Festival to their schedule, which includes performances by two leading protest bands from Zimbabwe, Comrade Fatso & Chabvondoka, and Outspoken and The Essence. The foremost political activist musical group in Southern Africa, and specifically in Zimbabwe, gives the festival attendees extremely rare access to youth activists that live and work on the ground in Zimbabwe. Comrade Fatso blogs for CNN.com about politics and conditions in Zimbabwe (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/14/zimbabwe.blog/index.html). The Mugabe regime has banned their albums from Zimbabwe.

A panel discussion entitled Stereotypes in Hip Hop features Trinity College professors Gail Woldu, author of The Words and Music of Ice Cube, and Emily Musil, Coordinator of African Studies and Co-Chair of the President’s Colloquia “Hip Hop: Roots, Race, Rights.” Stanford’s Angela Steele will present her Fulbright research, Rap in China - In Search of a Hip-Hop Hero. Steele spent a year in China immersed in the emerging hip-hop scene and looking for the leaders who will form hip-hop culture in the world’s most populated country.

New York’s Hired Gun and Washington, D.C.’s Princess of Controversy will host two nights of performances featuring K’naan, Poetic Pilgrimage (UK), Blitz the Ambassador, Mohammed Yahya (UK), BeatburgerBand (Czech Republic), African Underground All-Stars (Senegal), Mr. Reo (Haiti), and Game Rebellion (Brooklyn, New York). Dj Craig G of Hartford’s Hot 93.7 hosts the afterparty on Friday night, and DJ Boo of the Juggaknots hosts the Saturday night afterparty.

The Trinity festival will screen one of 2008’s biggest hip-hop films, Planet B-Boy, a look at five international break dancing crews as they prepare for the world dance championship Battle of the Year in Germany. For the second consecutive year, the festival also will hold a 2-on-2 b-boy battle with a $500 grand prize. This year there will be several new workshops including a beatboxing workshop with Czech Republic’s world champion beatboxers, BeatBurgerBand, and a freestyle rhyming workshop with New York MC Hired Gun. Graffiti artists will be painting murals all day as a backdrop for the workshops and b-boy battle.

The festival will also include a screening of Fangafrika, an African Francophone documentary set during a hip-hop festival in Burkina Faso that gathered a who’s who of African hip-hop addressing the serious issues facing Africans everywhere. The films directors will be on hand for a discussion of activism and education in West African hip-hop. Poetic Pilgrimage, a female Muslim duo from London, will host a discussion about Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East.

Festival Sponsors include Trinity College, Nomadic Wax, The Temple of Hip-Hop (Trinity College Chapter), World Hip Hop Market, and the Greater Hartford Arts Council. Pre-registration is required, and will take place the day of the event at Gallows Hill next to the Austin Arts Center on the campus of Trinity College.

This event is free and open to the public. For more details, directions, and schedule information, visit Trinity Hip-Hop. For more on the headliner, K’Naan, visit, K’naan music.