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Events 2011
OSIBISA
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Dates
April 19th- 29th -
Australia Tour
Byron Bay Blues Festival
May 7th – Blackheath Halls,
London
July 8th & 9th –
Vienna
July 23rd – Ronnie Scotts, London
Events 2010
‘ONE LOVE
AFRICA’
AFRICAN TRIBUTE TO BOB MARLEY
Featuring
OSIBISA, MORY KANTE & DELE SOSIMI
June 4th – Fairfield Hall,
Croydon UK
July 15th – Hall of Cornwall,
Truro UK
GKB
Events
Woodshed Jazz Club – Gregg Kofi Brown
19th Nov. – The Refectory
Guildford Cathedral
Gregg Kofi Brown
20th Nov. – London - Private
Party
Woodshed Jazz Club – Blues Brothers
Xmas Party
16th Dec. – The Refectory
Guildford Cathedral
OSIBISA
27th Feb. Queen Elizabeth Hall –
London UK
13th March. Erft
Festival - Bergheim Germany
28th & 29th May.
Ronnie Scotts- London UK
5th June. Star Garden
Festival-Budapest
16th July. Herzberg Festival-
Germany
7th Aug. Tage
Music Festival - Aalen, Baden- Wurttemberg- Germany
24th Sept. London African Music
Festival
30 Oct. Black History Event Woolwich
Polytechnic
22nd Nov – 6th Dec.
India Tour
Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi
Events 2009
India tour
OSIBISA feat. Gregg Kofi Brown
17th & 18th Nov. KOLA ACADEMY – Goa
20th Nov. MERIDIAN HOTEL LAWNS – Cochin
22nd Nov. LADY ANDAL – Chennai
3rd Dec.
The Forum – London
Amadou &
Mariam, Cheick Tidiane Seck,
Gregg Kofi Brown
20th Dec. Jazz Cafe – London
Cheick Tidiane Seck
& Tony Allen featuring
Gregg Kofi Brown
Saturday
25 April
San Javier Jazz Festival, Spain
Osibisa
Friday
19 June 2009
Northcote Carnival
Gregg Kofi Brown
Sunday 21 June 2009
17:00
JAZZ CAFE,London - Amadou & Mariam feat. Gregg Kofi
Brown
17-18-19 July 2009
Glade Festival
Winchester, UK
Gregg Kofi Brown
12pm Sunday 9 August
2009
Brecon Jazz Festival
Hay on Wye, UK
Gregg Kofi Brown & Afrobeat
band
Tuesday 1 September
2009 20:00
PIZZA EXPRESS
JAZZ CLUB
10 Dean St Soho, London W1D 3RW
Gregg Kofi Brown with Afrobeat
Band
4 September 2009
OFF THE TRACKS FESTIVAL
Donnington Park Farm, Castle Donnington, UK
Osibisa
5 September 2009
ALNWICK PLAYHOUSE
Alnwick NE66 1PQ, UK
Osibisa
6
September 2009 20:00
Weyfest,
Farnham, Surrey, UK
http://www.weyfest.co.uk/
16-27
Sept 2009 20:00
Riverfront Jazz Festival
Greenwich, UK
www.riverfrontjazz.co.uk
Events 2008
GREGG KOFI BROWN
and The Osibisa Band
Africa
Day
Monday
26th May
Trafalger Square, from 3pm
August 22-23-24
Maré de Agosto
Festival Santa Maria, Azores, Portugal
http://www.maredeagosto.com/ing/index.php?op=10
August 29th
Bunk festival UK with Osibisa
September 4-5-6th
Denmark with Osibisa
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CONTACTS
The 2010 festival season started with a bang with Kofi Brown & Osibisa playing some legendary
festivals in Germany performing alongside Jeff Beck & Hawkwind.
The One Love Africa
‘Bob Marley’ Tribute show in June featured an amazing show with Mory Kante and Osibisa performing
together for the first time.
Kofi also managed a few solo gigs
whilst finishing the academic side of his career. One show featured a guest
spot with Carleen Anderson of the Young Disciples fame performing an
inspiring version of ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’.
Kofi Brown and Osibisa performed on another tour of India and returned for
a special party in December which they were supported by the legendary
producer & artist AKON.
Kofi recently performed on STAR TV’s
(SKY TV) 10th anniversary broadcast. As a premier Asian TV
network it was viewed by millions around the world.
2011 will see Gregg
Kofi Brown putting on finishing touches to new solo album featuring The Garifuna All Stars, Pauline Henry & the Chimes, Osibisa, Billy Cobham
and a host of international artists.
The album will
see a return to Kofi’s
African, Dance and Dub roots with tracks mixed by up & coming dubstep & bassline
producers. Additional production and programming duties will be contributed
by Phil Nicholas who worked with
Mutt Lang on classic tracks by Bryan Adams, Billy Ocean, Shania Twain
and Def Leopard.
Kofi is also working on a secret album project with a major
artist which will feature dramatic change of direction for her career. So
watch this space!!!
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 One Love Africa 
&
ONE LOVE
JAZZ
Gregg
Kofi Brown is currently producing an exciting new live show called One Love Africa an
African tribute to Bob Marley. The
first two productions will feature, MORY
KANTE (Yeke Yeke), DELE SOSIMI
& OSIBISA with further artists to be announced for future dates.
Gregg
Kofi is also producing ONE LOVE JAZZ a
jazz tribute to Bob Marley with some legendary artists already signed up to
perform at what promises to be another fabulous show with an amazing line
up. Dates to be announced
This
project will continue over the next 3 years with the first two productions
being staged at the Fairfield Hall, Croydon June 4th 2010 and the
Hall for Cornwall, Truro July 15th. Gregg Kofi hopes to tour
versions of this show around the world.
New Osibisa
album ‘Osee Yee’
Gregg Kofi
Brown has contributed 3 tracks to the new Osibisa Osee Yee album Ayioko, It’s OK
and Mystical
He is
currently working on his next solo album with producer/engineer Phil Nicholas
which will feature Pauline Henry (Jamaica), the Garifuna
Collective (Belize), Osibisa (Ghana), Dominic Miller (Argentina) and Gus Isidore (Dominica).
Gregg Kofi
Brown
Tour News 2009
This
last year has seen Gregg Kofi Brown perform festivals & gigs with his
Afro-beat band, Amadou & Mariam,
Tony Allen, Cheick Tidiane Seck
and reunite with the great Osibisa
for a world tour. He also performed at the African Express Xmas party with Cheick
, Tony & Damon Albarn
Gregg
Kofi has launched his eagerly awaited album, ‘Together as One’ (Wrasse
Records), which featured a host of guest artists including Sting, Gabrielle,
Billy Cobham and Des’ree.
‘Gregg Kofi Brown's version of Lullaby
to an Anxious Child is stunning'. Sting.com
”Gregg Kofi's
electrifying performance lights up the
stage”
LA
Times.
“Gregg Kofi
Brown…classy African tinged soul
funk”
Guardian
Khaleej Times
IT WAS JAZZ ALL THE WAY
30.04.06 Abu Dhabi Jazz Festival
The lineup
covered a wide variety of musical styles, ranging from Jazzy Blues, complements
of Italy's Roberto Ciotti, to Soul-Pop and Jazz
from Greg Kofi Brown who has collaborated with the likes of Sting, Joe Cocker
and Stanley Jordan to name a few.
The effervescence
of Gregg 'KOFI' Brown & Pauline Henry feat. Member’s of the world-class African pioneers
OSIBISA and the lead-singer of the Chimes respectively left the crowd wanting
for more when the event finally rolled up late on Friday night.
GULF NEWS
LEGENDS MESMERISE
AUDIENCE
|By Meher Murshed | 02-02-2003
Day III: One man and his guitar held the audience spell-bound for an hour. He
didn't utter a word. Stanley Jordan is a
wizard.
The first half of his set featured a band with Greg 'Koffi' Brown on vocals. Brown from Osibisa pranced around
the stage and couldn't resist the Osibisa trademark chant: "Ki le le ki
le le, aavo aavo ki le le."
Michael Jackson could have learnt a few moves from Brown.
Jordan
dedicated All the Children from the album Magic Touch to "all the
children who will go to bed hungry tonight."
But it was the second half that was a sheer delight. He
performed his interpretations of El Condor Pasa,
dedicating the tune to the bird that faces extinction, Autumn Leaves and
Eleanor Rigby. He played with one hand, switching from the right to the left
with breath-taking speed.
Jordan was
feeding off the crowd, he could have played for
hours. "Hopefully this will be the first of many. I will go back home
and tell my friends what a great experience it was playing in Dubai,"
Jordan
said.
And, Dubai has
reason to be proud. With all the political rhetoric flying around in the
region, the emirate hosted three unforgettable evenings that brought Louis
Armstrong's tune to mind:
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me
and you
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue and
clouds of white
The bright blessed day,
the dark sacred night
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world
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