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The Yuletide season couldn’t have started on a better note for Bayelsans and numerous jazz enthusiasts who stormed the Gloryland Cultural Center, Yenagoa, for the inaugural edition of the Bayelsa International Jazz Festival.
Mail and Guardian Stefanie Jason Johannesburg came alive on Saturday evening when jazz greats took to the stage for “South Meets South — An Evening With The Masters”. The feelings of familiarity rose from the soft cries of Hugh Masekela’s flugelhorn and the timeous notes from Larry Willis’s piano playing. This familiarity is undoubtedly owed … Read more
“Have you ever experienced something so wonderful, so beautiful, that you were sad a bit because a special someone wasn’t there to experience it with you? That’s how beautiful the music is tonight.”
South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela’s strengths as an entertainer carried his show at the Town Hall on Thursday.
Hugh Masekela at WOMADelaide – Review, Interview and Blog Excerpts The Guardian Caspar Llewellyn Smith Review It was a fine way to celebrate a 21st birthday: blistering temperatures, beautiful surroundings and plenty to learn from your elders. Some of the leading perfomers at WOMADelaide in Adelaide’s Botanic Park were more than a match for their … Read more
Hugh Masekela’s trumpet becomes a mining drill in “Songs of Migration,” the tuneful, quietly stirring musical tribute running through this Saturday at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.
Hugh Masekela Wine Collection Launched by Veenwouden House of Masekela Press Release ‘Music, wine, food and good company are the best combination’ says Marcel van der Walt, vintner at Veenwouden and Hugh Masekela’s latest partner in collaboration. This heady mix was at its best last Sunday as the House of Masekela launched Veenwouden’s new Hugh … Read more
WOMAD was once dominated by African bands, but this year the music really is global – and with a greater emphasis on Asia and the Far East.
“It was such a great day and a massive festival with a massive stage and loads of stalls. The kids were all running around barefoot and it felt almost like being back home,” Ndeshi said.
Hugh Masekela Joins Paul Simon in London to Kick off the Graceland Tour! Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images Twenty five years after Hugh Masekela first collaborated with Paul Simon and now legendary SA musicians like Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mambazo on the Graceland album and subsequent tour – the two icons reunited on a Hyde … Read more
