Sunday, 4 January 2015

Celebrating World Circuit Records

The first Rendez-vous à Bobo of 2015 tells the story of how music from Mali, Sudan and Zimbabwe first visited the U.K and was invited to stay, and of the British labels and DJ's who opened listener's ears.

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Sunday, 7 December 2014

A final rendez-vous for this year

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.


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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.


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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!

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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
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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


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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





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