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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
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
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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 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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