The World Creole Music Festival (WCMF)was conceived out of a need to provide a stage for Dominican Musician and musical expressions, and to increase Dominica’s visibility overseas. Held during the last weekend in October, and now in it’s thirteenth year, the 3-night festival has grown to one of the only truly indigenous music event in Dominica and the Eastern Caribbean. The creole festival...
Vin and Alan Cave opened night one of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), giving the patrons a taste of a mixture of Compas and Zouk music. Swinging Stars, celebrating 50 years as usual gave the audience something to talk about, with front members Daddy Chess and Tasha Peltier on the vocals. The crowd was very responsive and followed the commands from Daddy Chess when he sang his famous song “Forward...
A record found at a flea market some years ago. Tabou Combo come from Haiti and this record was recorded in 1974. The two tracks featured here are the title track "8th Sacrement" and " Pace Domine". "Formed in the Port-Au-Prince suburb of Petion-Ville by the Chancy brothers, Albert on bass and Adolphe on guitar, this young band won the Radio Haiti mini-jazz competition in 1968....
In the these hard times of cuts and credit crunches, we want you to suggest songs that lament the effects of unemployment There was a point in in compiling this week's playlist, roughly at about post 850, when I was overcome by a transcendent feeling of beatitude. Like some kinda medieval monk. A combination of Ejaydee's prolific posting, magicman's impassioned presentation of the works of Franco,...
The St. Lucia Jazz Festival is held on one of the Caribbean's most lush and mountainous islands. This year's offerings included such talents as Amy Winehouse, Chaka Khan and Patti LaBelle. Journalist Robert Hilferty reports from the tropical paradise.
In its third edition, the Desert Rhythm Festival at Festival City on October 31 featured a wide range of musical genres, ranging from the kings of reggae The Wailers, and the masters of Zouk (a style of rhythmic music originating from the islands of Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique), West Indian band Kassav’, to the highly-awaited British solo artist Paul Weller. The majority of the crowd had...
Blogger Mycho contributes Kassav en concert and (cops think taggers in Albany are bad: look at these:) Serie: Tags et fresques . Makes we wanna dig out my Wild Style VHS! KASSAV - OH, MADIANA YouTube - Wildstyle - Grandmaster Flash Speaking of "Wild style," I get a kick out of some of the junior high kids who wear super-baggy oversized pants and T-shirts. Two weeks ago I was driving along...
Angolan popular singer, Paulo Flores, Friday evening in Luanda's "Coqueiros" Stadium opened a new page in the recent history of the national "music hall" by attracting about 21,000 fans into the show of his 20 years of career.
The Amnesty International concert at Paris Bercy Stadium marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some other artists that also performed are Alanis Morissette, Tracy Chapman, Asian Dub Foundation, Peter Gabriel, and Kassav. The members of Radiohead have said: "The Amnesty International human rights concerts in Paris will be our only European appearance...
About 1,500 people attended the third show of Kassava band in Angola on Saturday night, at Luanda Atlantico Cinema, Angop has learnt. Full article ... (http://allafrica.com/stories/200805050212.html)
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