This month on Rendez-vous radio, music from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Mali and a collective of artists including Amadou and Mariam, Oumou Sangaré and Tiken Jah Fakoly who have recorded a song with words in French, Malinke and Lingala supporting Medecins Sans Frontieres response to Ebola in West Africa.
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Sunday, 9 November 2014
Voices from CAFF 2014
This month on Rendez-vous à Bobo radio on Cambridge 105, voices from the 13th Cambridge African Film Festival featuring Destiny Ekaragha, Javier Hirschfeld and Alex Pitstra.
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Rendez-vous radio meets the director of The Cambridge African Film Festival
This month Rendez-vous à Bobo on Cambridge 105 meets the director of The Cambridge African Film Festival to hear about the films, workshops and discussions programmed for the festival's 13th edition.
CAFF logo by David Gaskin
Plus music from Dakar to Durban, a beginner's guide to Youssou N'Dour, and news of Sophiatown a musical opening at The ADC Theatre on Tuesday 28th October.
Folignouma (AKA Les Freres Chapalo) will also be playing at the closing party of The Cambridge African Film Festival!
Friday, 26 September 2014
Bi Furu (marriage today) An alternative wedding playlist
When my older brother asked me to create a playlist for his wedding reception earlier this month it started me thinking about songs from West Africa on the subject of weddings. So in parallel with his playlist I decided to curate a set of tunes from Mali and Burkina Faso.
From the joyous and evocative sound of Amadou and Mariam's `Beaux dimanches' to Oumou Sangaré subverting a traditional song to critique patriarchy here is my alternative playlist.
Also featured are some scorching township tunes by the likes of Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens I was inspired to dig out after guesting on another Cambridge 105 radio show The Kipper the cat (vinyl) show.
Hear the world premier of a selection from nearly 300 mint condition 78s discovered in an abandoned record shop in Gauteng just outside Johannesburg here
Friday, 29 August 2014
Africa utopia
This month on Rendez-vous radio.. News of the Africa Utopia festival at Southbank Centre, a guide to African films screening in the 34th Cambridge Film Festival, and vintage music from Ethiopia chosen from the Ethiopiques series.
Plus music from Alsarah and The Nile Project
Saturday, 26 July 2014
Spéciale Francophone
Inspired by Cambridge's hosting of Le Tour De France this month we celebrate music from French speaking Africa. We hear from Amadou et Mariam, Khaled and Mamani Keita
Plus news of an exhibition of painting from Botswana in Cambridge at the MAA, and we speak to Fiston Lusambo of Congolese band Zong Zing All Stars
Plus news of an exhibition of painting from Botswana in Cambridge at the MAA, and we speak to Fiston Lusambo of Congolese band Zong Zing All Stars
Friday, 27 June 2014
Edition Coupe du monde!
This month on Rendez-vous radio a musical celebration of the African World Cup qualifiers plus we explore music from Portuguese speaking Africa. Plus news of Africa Writes and the Cambridge Buskers Festival
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Rendez-vous en Suisse
This month we rendez-vous with Souleymane`Mani' Sanou in Switzerland to speak about Burkina Faso's celebrated group Farafina and another chance to hear my short documentary "We must dare to invent in the future" made on location in Burkina Faso.
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Zimbabwe's rising stars
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Fanfare Farafina
From Benin to New Orleans, Chicago to Cameroon, this month Rendez vous à Bobo celebrates the brass band, looking at the musicians who have claimed the tradition as their own.
We hear from Steve Pretty of The Hackney Colliery Band, a nine piece band from London who bought their inventive mash ups of hip hop & pop to Cambridge on 22.3.14.
And we take a look at how colonial brass band music in Ghana, Benin and Nigeria gave birth to high life, juju and afrobeat.
And we take a look at how colonial brass band music in Ghana, Benin and Nigeria gave birth to high life, juju and afrobeat.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Synths south of the Sahara
Rendez-vous à Bobo is celebrating reinvention and musical magpies this month.
There is music from Afrikan Boy
And I'm telling the story of synths in Africa.
We also take a look at Afrofuturism, an artistic movement offering a reply to the third world stereotype often imposed on Africa.
Pumzi a science fiction film from Kenya screened at The Cambridge African Film Festival 2010
There is music from Afrikan Boy
And I'm telling the story of synths in Africa.
We also take a look at Afrofuturism, an artistic movement offering a reply to the third world stereotype often imposed on Africa.
Pumzi a science fiction film from Kenya screened at The Cambridge African Film Festival 2010
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Performing at The MAA
A few weeks back I was invited to provide music for an event at The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. Sing That Thing was the finale of a term of singing workshops exploring the objects in the museum and the stories behind them.
The museum had a wonderful acoustic and atmosphere
Thursday, 23 January 2014
The struggle through song
Opening with the formidable Thandiswa and her rallying "Lahlumlenze" (Shake your leg) This month Rendez-vous à Bobo is celebrating the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela through music and song.
From my own archive I have an interview with Hugh Masekela
There's music from Hot Water from Cape Town
And we remember Nelson Mandela's visit to Cambridge in 2001.
You can read my review of the new biopic Mandela:Long walk To Freedom here
From my own archive I have an interview with Hugh Masekela
There's music from Hot Water from Cape Town
And we remember Nelson Mandela's visit to Cambridge in 2001.
You can read my review of the new biopic Mandela:Long walk To Freedom here
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