If you want to hide, just cut your hair short, sing Hélène and Célia Faussart, aka Les Nubians, in the funky number, Afrodance, from their…
Les Nubians Accept Who they Are
Author: slb2
Susan Budig draws from music and poetry to create her own poems that she uses to bring healing and recovering from grief to others.
Bruce Molsky & Ale Moller Show Review
If you’ve ever heard old-time music–not oldie music by the Splatter Sisters–but old Appalachian music, you probably came away from the experience forever marked. That…
Tinariwen performs at the Cedar in Minneapolis
Their music, played on a handful of electric guitars and one bongo drum, is as arresting as their costume. Saturday evening, shortly after eight o’clock,…
Correction to Carolina Chocolate Drops article
Recently I reported that the Carolina Chocolate Drops had received a National Endowment of the Arts grant. The article that I read (www.sacksco.com/roster/ccd/ccd_rls.html) stated clearly that…
Carolina Chocolate Drops: on the rise
Even their name, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, could be seen as a recycled relic of the past. Back in the 1930s there was an African-American…
Dee Dee Bridgewater Mixes with Mali
This article was published first in Mshale newspaper. After the superlative introduction by Dakota Jazz Club’s owner, Lowell Pickett, I expected a rich, preeminent performance…
Zhalman: African hip hop with an African message
The scars surely run deep into his psyche. As a young child, he watched his homeland of Liberia torn apart by civil war; his mother,…
Gangbe Brass Band: an Original West African Sound
Jack Brass Band, a seven-piece New Orleans-style crew playing outside in the Cedar’s courtyard could be heard from the parking lot where I’d left my…
Femi Kuti’s Minnesota show
On stage, Nigerian Femi Kuti plays dual roles of serious artist and demanding coach. His most recent show at the Minnesota Zoo on August 2nd gave…
Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective in Minneapolis
Parts of this article first appeared in Mshale newspaper . Andy Palacio is on a mission to save himself. Or rather, to save his culture,…