Review: Hugh Masekela & La-33
South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela’s strengths as an entertainer carried his show at the Town Hall on Thursday.
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WOMAD Guardian Blog and Review
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
Playing @ Work Review by The Citizen
Bra Hugh Masekela is back in his melodic popular jazz element with this album, which sounds like it was recorded in a jovial setting.
Rolling Stone Reviews Friends
“We all do ‘do, re, mi’, but you have to find the other notes yourself,” advised Louis Armstrong. Bra Hugh’s been exploring those other notes since Satchmo sent him his first horn back in the ’50s.
Songs of Migration Washington Post Review
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.
Songs of Migration International Tour
Songs of Migration International Tour: Amsterdam, London, Washington DC and Cape Town House of Masekela Press Release Hugh Masekela, Sibongile Khumalo and the multi-talented cast of the acclaimed Songs of Migration kicked off their international tour last weekend at the Royal Theatre Carre in Amsterdam. Songs of Migration is a musical tribute to the cultural … Read more
Veenwouden Masekela Wine Launch
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
Hugh Masekela at WOMAD 2012
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.
BT River of Music
“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 Graceland Tour!
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
