BT River of Music, Africa and Americas stages – review

Various venues, LondonLondon Pleasure Gardens was a curiously bleak location for an ambitious pre-Olympic celebration: a gravel wasteland alongside an abandoned flour mill on the river's edge. It looked more like the set of a gritty movie than a concert site, but this was the Africa stage of the two-day BT River of Music, a festival involving artists from 204 countries in six concerts along the River Thames.Often, the music was as remarkable as the site was inappropriate, despite too many collab...

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