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  • Singer Phathar Mak releases new CD 20 Dec 2009 14:44 GMT
    ... Luanda – The Angolan musician Phater Mak released last Saturday, in Luanda’s ... “Ecos e Factos”. Speaking to ANGOP, the singer said that his second album (double Cd) ... special participation of other Angolan and South African musicians like Jeff Brown, Dona Keli, Kizua ...

  • Classical Arabic music: Tradition and transition 23 Dec 2009 17:54 GMT
    ... in the 20th century include the enigmatic Egyptian songbird, Oum Khalthoum, the Lebanese diva Fairuz ... Canada, Japan, Mali, Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Algeria. On his most recent recording, one will ... time when most young people in North Africa and the Middle Eastern region are increasingly ...

  • World Music Wednesdays Return to The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago in 2010 25 Dec 2009 13:00 GMT
    ... 25 2009 @ 08:03 AM EST World Music Wednesdays Return to The Old Town School ... will present music, dance and culture of Africa, Europe, Asia, The Middle East and The Americas. Concerts: Pilsen Sountrack 1.0 - Fandanguero and Son ...

  • Vail Valley Music: 'All things banjo' 19 Dec 2009 00:55 GMT
    ... What: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones in concert When: 7:30 p.m., Saturday Where: Vilar Performing ... If there's such a thing as a musical map, Bela Fleck, who plays in the ... (it's also a CD) Fleck explored the African origins of the banjo and collaborated with ...

  • The year in music: Best albums weren't the best sellers 27 Dec 2009 07:12 GMT
    ... The year in music: Best albums weren't the best sellers Bono, shown ... tracing the roots of the banjo to African shores, Fleck has designed a world-music overview ... orchestral. The story goes that the 12 songs on this album were pulled from a ...

  • Movies, music and more! 25 Dec 2009 21:16 GMT
    ... holiday and business experience in Accra. There's music in the air, as I write - ... good year for the music industry in Nigeria. Far from it! It was a good ... the runway and photo studios. From South Africa to Milan and New York, Nigerian models, tailors ...

  • My music, four permanent girlfriends and why I quit smoking Igbo Femi Anikulapo-Kuti 20 Dec 2009 18:14 GMT
    ... for $8 a day to reach over 30,000 people Offers ... holiday and business experience in Accra. Afrobeat musician, Femi Anikulapo-Kuti speaks with ADEOLA BALOGUN about ... I have been working very hard outside Nigeria. The fact that the Nigerian music industry ...

  • Faint traces, low hopes for local music 22 Dec 2009 22:16 GMT
    ... There are two problems with trends: they are easily ... this is precisely the current state of Egypt’s local music scene. It seems that Egyptian ... fans are May Nasr from Lebanon and Algeria’s enchanting Souad Massi. Massi’s debut in 2007 ...

  • YEAREND SPECIAL: Faint traces, low hopes for local music 23 Dec 2009 11:36 GMT
    ... There are two problems with trends: they are easily ... this is precisely the current state of Egypt’s local music scene. It seems that Egyptian ... fans are May Nasr from Lebanon and Algeria’s enchanting Souad Massi. Massi’s debut in 2007 ...

  • Nigerian songs are enjoying too much airplay in Ghana Kojo Antwi 23 Dec 2009 16:41 GMT
    ... Ghana’s music maestro, Julius Kojo Antwi, has expressed misgivings ... sometimes referred to decry the overplaying of Nigerian songs on radio at the expense of ...

  • Kojo Speaks Out on Nigerian Music 25 Dec 2009 05:26 GMT
    ... for $8 a day to reach over 30,000 people Offers ... holiday and business experience in Accra. Ghana's music maestro, Julius Kojo Antwi, has expressed misgivings ... sometimes referred to, decried the overplaying of Nigerian songs on radio at the expense of ...

  • Tuku - Musician of the Decade 28 Dec 2009 14:10 GMT
    ... millennium, the year 1999 to be precise, music lovers witnessed one of the greatest comebacks of ... a sound that incorporates the hard-driving South African mbaqanga beat and the Katekwe drumming patterns ... to remain in the country." "While Tuku's songs don't carry explicit political messages, he makes ...

  • Niger Delta Peace Rocks Concert Arrives Warri, Yenagoa Today 21 Dec 2009 15:21 GMT
    ... Abuja/Uyo/ Benin — The Niger Delta Peace Rocks concert organised by the ... today following the sensational kick-off of the music festival in Abuja and Benin last night. ...

  • It was a very good year for ... Music 27 Dec 2009 05:33 GMT
    ... Dirty Projectors. This Brooklyn band mashes up African, R&B and indie influences. I'm sticking with ... featuring Ezra Koenig. Koenig, the Vampire Weekend singer, meets an Afro-Euro band on a song named after a Malawi tourist slogan. Ebullient ...

  • Idol Set to Release Debut Album 21 Dec 2009 11:19 GMT
    ... The Nigerian music industry has for a while now seen the entrant of new faces with much ...


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