AFRICA SOUL REBELS…THREE TOP LIVE BANDS (THUR 25 Feb 10)

AFRICA SOUL REBELS… THREE TOP LIVE BANDS THIS THURSDAY…. Thursday 25th Feb 8pm Butterworth Hall, Warwick University Arts Centre Tickets: £20 (£18) Oumou Sangare (Mali) Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou (Benin) Kalahari Surfers (South Africa). The sixth African Soul Rebels tour brings together some of the continent’s most spectacular performers. The Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou was one of the greatest African bands of the 70s. Based in Benin, they mixed funk and Afrobeat with the bewitching rhythms of their native Voudoun tradition. While the musicians scattered over the intervening years, their sensational return concert at the Barbican last September showed that the power, energy and all-round funkiness of the 11-piece band is undimmed. “ tremendous show…outrageously tight, yet mentally loosening funk…they are fully potent, late-blooming stars” The Independent The Kalahari Surfers formed in South Africa in 1982 and their energising mixture of rhythm and outspoken social commentary promptly resulted in the banning of their first three albums under the apartheid regime. Having been influenced by Robert Wyatt and Henry Cow, the Surfers’ prime mover Warrick...

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African Rootmaster - live in London - Thur 25/2/2010

AFRICAN ROOTMASTER ‘GLOBAL LOCAL’ SHOWCASE AT CARGO SHOREDITCH. Thursday, 25 February 2010 at 19:00 with THE WORM, AJ HOLMES AND THE HACKNEY EMPIRE, NHASITAFARA!! This is a celebration of the freshest UK Afro sounds, at Cargo, Rivington St, London EC2A 3AY. ENTRY IS FREE BEFORE 9PM, £8 AFTER, £5 ADVANCE. http://www.wegottickets.com/event/67823 FACEBOOK HERE- PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS…. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=273119443158&ref=ts 9pm NHASITAFARA ‘mbira dub soundclash’ - Nhasitafara are a big band with a huge sound, playing truly ‘world’...

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