All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
A MIX OF SOUTH AFRICAN AND overseas jazz musicians will, at the end of this month, grace the annual Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival -- the first major entertainment event after the ugly violence that rocked that country early in the year.
Victor Dlamini (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
It is his ability to capture, in movingly lyrical poetry, his very deep love for the musicians who brought us jazz - the stand out art form of the 20th century - that has endeared Keorapetse “Bra Willie” Kgositsile to lovers of poetry. Keorapetse is South Africa’s Poet Laureate: a fitting role for a writer whose work is littered with lines that elevate the human spirit and oppose all that limits freedom....
Luxury Holiday Blog - Tropical Sky (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
If you are planning to visit St Lucia in December then check out the island’s newest cultural event, the Kalalu Music Festival, which is held every year at Samaans Park in Choc Bay. Performers come from various African and Caribbean…
Line Out (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Hugh Masekela - "Coal Train" (Live) Hugh Masekela South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela is known in America for two things: the instrumental "Grazing in the Grass," which reached number one on the Billboard chart in 1968, and his work with Paul Simon on Graceland . Masekela, however, is a god in black Africa. And only a god could capture the essence of the 20th-century black African experience in...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
JAZZ musician Hugh Masekela struck a sour note a couple of weeks ago by declining to take part in a 90th birthday tribute to former president Nelson Mandela that was being put together by the Times newspaper.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
KENYA'S finest world music star, Eric Wainaina will, for the first time, hold an exclusive, live performance in Uganda at the Zamani Fest, a unique blend of contemporary live African music.
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
* Okay, “When We Were Kings” were only half way a concert film, but it still counts (of the African artists on that bill, apart from Miriam Makeba’s performance being fetichized by the American sports writers as some sort of witch, you can also see a young Hugh Masekela. Or I think I did) LeoAfricanus ]]>
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Gladys Knight, Wynton Marsalis, Alice Walker, Judith Jamison, Hugh Masekela, Charles S. Dutton, Carrie Mae Weems, Los Hombres Calientes, Dr. Cornell West, and much much more ATLANTA, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The 20th Anniversary of the National Black Arts Festival will be a birthday celebration where the audience receives the gifts. Taking place in metro Atlanta over a ten day period beginning July...
IOL (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
A musician and his actor wife have died in an accident near Johannesburg, police say.
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
. . . which means it's time to TIghten Up, Mojonauts! YouTube - Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten...
Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Zukiswa Wanner, South Africa Fiddles, While Gauteng Burns Would Mama Miriam Makeba, Jonas Gwangwa and Hugh Masekela have been as celebrated on the continent? Would Lewis Nkosi and Eskia Mphahlele have attained their intellectual status if it were not for teaching at some of the African universities they taught at? Would South Africa be the country it is without the thousands of exiles who were welcomed,...
IndieMuse.com (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
I came across Sunny Levine’s music a few weeks ago, and haven’t stopped listening since. He has a lot of influences, it’s hard to make an exact comparison to other musicians. Songs like “Relations” bring to mind Dave Matthews. Other songs remind me of Jack Johnson, but less acoustic based. At times, I also [...]
Paris DJs Podcasts (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Mr Moo's African Guitar Stash(MP3 Podcast on ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2008-05-18 [comment faire?/how to?] Tracklisting : 01. Ojah with Hugh Masekela - Afro Beat Blues (unreleased track from 1974, available on 'Hugh Masekela presents The Chisa Years 1965-1975' compilation, 2006 / BBE)...
Metro Times Music Blahg (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba are hands down the king and queen of South African music. The onetime husband and wife gained worldwide pop cred as hit-makers in the ’60s while agitating for the end of the apartheid regime back home — which, in recognition of their work, banned both them and their records. Of course, post-apartheid, they’re heroes. (If you only know them from Paul Simon ’s Graceland...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
SOUTH African jazz legend Hugh Masekela's anticipated performance at the Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA) is still uncertain.
