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.
