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Womad | Festival watch

5227 days ago
Guardian MusicCharlton Park, Malmesbury, WiltshireAside from Jamie Oliver flying in by helicopter to oversee his lavish new food stall, Womad's 28th year could not escape a sense of belt-tightening. Perhaps the opening Friday falling in the school term contributed... more info

Womad 2010 | World music review

5234 days ago
Guardian MusicCharlton Park, WiltshireThis year's Womad will be remembered for a real-life world-music fairytale, as Staff Benda Bilili, the band formed by Congolese polio victims, made their first British festival appearance. Four of them came on in wheelchairs, ... more info

Paul Morley's showing off... World Music

5236 days ago
Guardian MusicAR Rahman, Staff Benda Bilili, Céu, Nitin Sawhney, Radioclit talk to Paul Morley about where they would like to be filedPaul MorleyChris Fenn more info

Paul Morley's Showing Off: Staff Benda Bilili

5236 days ago
Guardian MusicA band whose history defies convention and whose music defies easy categorisationPerhaps certain music from, say, deep inside Africa, sounds lost inside the vast lostness of a multitude of countries that lose themselves inside their own histories and... more info

Paul Morley's Showing Off: World music

5236 days ago
Guardian MusicAR Rahmen, Staff Benda Bilili, Céu, Nitin Sawhney, Radioclit - file under pop?Staff Benda Bilili, magnificent survivors singing at the top of their voices about a harsh, strange world and the implacable undermining of all that sustains reason and sa... more info

Video: Paul Morley's Showing Off: Staff Benda Bilili interview

5236 days ago
Guardian MusicPaul Morley talks to Ricky Likabu of Staff Benda BililiPaul MorleyElliot SmithAlice Salfield more info

Paul Morley's Showing Off: Staff Benda Bilili perform Moziki

5236 days ago
Guardian MusicStaff Benda Bilili perform Moziki, a song from their debut album Trés Trés Fort, at the Hackney EmpirePaul MorleyElliot SmithAlice SalfieldJohn Domokos more info

Crammed Discs Reissues Roots of OK Jazz

5239 days ago
AltsoundsFollowing the recent success of contemporary bands such as Staff Benda Bilili and Konono N°1, it's time once again for *Crammed Discs* to revisit the rich heritage of music from DR Congo, with the reissue of the Congo Classics album *Roots... more info

Staff Benda Bilili at Glastonbury 2010 | Review

5262 days ago
Guardian MusicThis band of disabled musicians and former street children from the Congo serve up sizzling soukous and frenetic funkWho: Staff Benda BililiWhere and when: West Holts, 4.45pm Sunday.Dress code: Black suits, shades and an impressive array of berets, t... more info

Festivals in Brief: Blaze, Cleveland Solstice, Taste of Randolph, Italia Wave

5280 days ago
PitchforkWHAT: Blaze FestivalWHEN: June 19 - July 31WHERE: London, EnglandWHO: The Knife's Tomorrow in a Year, Dirty Projectors performing The Getty Address, Shearwater, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Caetano Veloso, Lee "Scratch Perry, Toots and the Maytals... more info

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