Baul, qawwali and classical ragas enthrall music lovers in Delhi
Organised by the Bengal Association in Delhi's Meghdoot Amphitheatre, the two-day World Music Concert held on 15 and 16 ...
Review: Jazz, African independence, secret agents — it’s all in ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’
As jazz celebrities rallied to the cause of African decolonization, secret Western interests saw an opportunity for ...
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Top Africa orchestra began with bicycle brake cables for strings
With the Democratic Republic of Congo at war and in chaos for most of the ... Real learning curve' But at the beginning not ...
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Review of The African Choir of Norfolk: Audience couldn’t help but be drawn into buoyant atmosphere of music
The songs have been passed down orally and deal with topics as diverse as parental love, domestic abuse, resilience and hope, ...
Diego Garcia’s ship is home base for his new album, as well as his musical life as the seafaring Spanish guitarist Twanguero.
Garcia Diego's unique approach begins with his music, an unusual and energetic mix of traditional Spanish acoustic styles and ...
Ella Jenkins, 'first lady' of children's music, remembered for championing social justice through song
The African American folk singer and songwriter had decades-long career as a children's entertainer, and made a global impact through her interactive performances.
Behind the curtain of Genshin Impact’s charity concert with Vijay Upadhyaya
We speak to conductor Vijay Upadhyaya ahead of the Genshin Impact charity concert 2024 in Vienna and shed a light on ...
The mausoleum holding Congo independence hero Lumumba’s gold-capped tooth is vandalized
Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized.
From Sharing Violins To International Success, DR Congo Orchestra Celebrates 30th Birthday
When DR Congo's Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra was founded thirty years ago it was a rag-tag band of around a dozen string musicians with so few instruments players were forced to share. Today it ...
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat review - jazz-themed documentary on the 1960s Congo Crisis
The British writer and Africa specialist Michela Wrong recently wrote a whistle-stop summary of the upheavals that afflicted ...
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Congolese man who sexually attacked his relatives is allowed to STAY in the UK - because deporting him would breach his right to a 'family life'
A foreign paedophile who abused his stepdaughter and two of her cousins has been allowed to stay in Scotland – because deporting him would breach his right to a family life. The man in his 50s ...