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

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

CONTACTS

Gregg Kofi Brown & The Osibisa Band

Autumn Tour

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. Currently recording Osibisa’s new studio album in the UK with Craig David’s keyboardist Kwame Yeboah producing, Gregg Kofi is also guest vocalist on Rabbit Bundrick’s (The Who) album being produced in Holland by Juan van Emeerloot and featuring Jan Somers on guitar.

There is short UK tour in October so expect a universal musical experience of African rhythms, jah spirit and Brit-funk. With fellow Osibisa alumni Emmanuel Rentzos (keys), Kari Bannerman (guitar) and Jose Joyette (drums) they will perform past hits ‘Sunshine Day’ and ‘Shadow’. Ticket holders to the concerts will receive a free CD single of Gregg Kofi Brown’s new single ‘Lullaby to an Anxious Child’ featuring Sting.

‘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. members 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