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Tuesday, May 23 2017, 6PM
Sir Victor Uwaifo is able to play the guitar with both of his feet as well as his tongue!
Songhoy Blues is a desert punk/blues music group from Timbuktu, Mali. The band was formed after they were forced to leave their homes during the civil conflict and the imposition of sharia law.
This album was produced by Dr. Luke, who has also produced tracks for Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus. Yelle rose to fame in 2005 through Myspace.
Mo Laudi recently launched his own record label Globalisto. on the creation of the label, he says "I started Globalisto as wa way of inviting people to a new sound which was missing in Paris."
This version of Fisherman is a product of Oliver Klein, a producer and DJ from Dortmund, Germany.
Onyeabor was a Nigerian funk musician in the 70's and 80's. He was crowned High Cheif in Enugu where he ran a flour mill.
Paris Combo combines elements of the French chanson, American jazz and swing, Roma music, and North African music.
The New Cool Collective is Dutch ensemble comprised of 19 musicians founded in 1993. In 2013, the band won a Golden Calf award from the Dutch Film Festival for scoring a film.
Lila Downs is a Mexican singer-songwriter who has been active since 1994. She briefly attended the University of Minnesota before dropping out to focus on her musical career.
She is nicknamed the Queen of Desert Blues. "With her soaring, swelling and soulful vocals she sings of love, family, women ad the toll of war." -Time Magazine
Soothsayer is a London based band who perform Afrobeat and reggae-influenced music. They have their own record label, Red Earth Records.
Tony Duncan is a world champion hoop dancer as well as a Native American flutist.
Formed in 1980 in Manchester England, currently comprising Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman. The band was formed by Sumner, Morris, and Peter Hook, who were the remaining members of post-punk group Joy Division
In the UK, all of the band's twelve studio albums have charted in the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, three of them being number ones. They have also achieved seventeen Top 30 singles and four Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart.
Coming from the Tunisian alternative music scene, Deena works to inject a dose of innovation and experimentation in Electro Dance Music in Tunisia. By combining urban rhythms and personal touch, it offers avant-garde music particularly energetic.
Cheb i Sabbah was a DJ and composer/producer known for combining Asian, Arabian, and African sounds into his compositions. He was born in Algeria, but moved to San Fransisco in 1984.
From Chalama Project's site: "The music of the project is an atmosphere, which can be felt enough only at a live concert, when everybody and everything is “here and now”, when the live music is borning. Sincerity and perfect singing and playing the Tuvinian musical instruments sounds like water in a mountain spring."
Adekunle Kosoko, popularly known by his stage name Adekunle Gold, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and graphic designer. He describes his genre of music as urban highlife.
Amor Fou is an Italian pop group formed in 2006. They released three albums and disbanded in 2012.
Baaba Maal belongs to the semi-nomadic Fulani people. “It’s part of my culture,” he says. “The songs travel from village to village, from country to country. It’s something natural to my tribe and this part of Africa.”
In 2012 Biga went to Jamaica to film a documentary with France Ô, called Biga*Ranx en Jamaïque, which was broadcast in April 2013. The film followed his trip to Jamaica, where he met some of his Reggae idols such as Potential Kidd.
Taiko is an ancient Japanese form of percussion using large drums. The drums range in size from roughly a snare drum ("shime"), to drums as large as a car (the "o-daiko"). The most common drum size in taiko is the "chu-daiko" which is the size of a wine barrel.
