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

Previous Dates

Fall UK Tour 2007

Sunday 2^nd Sept Kingston Carnival, Kingston upon Thames

Friday 19^th Oct Talking Heads, Southampton - box office: 023 806 78446 http://www.thetalkingheads.co.uk/

Saturday 20^th Oct Joogleberry, Brighton - box office: 01273 687171 info@joogleberry.com www.joogleberry.com

Saturday 27^th Oct Kuumba, Bristol - box office: 0117 942 1870 bookings@kuumba.org.uk www.kuumba.org.uk/events/index.html#events

Wednesday 31^st Oct The Stables, Milton Keynes - box office: 01908 280800
fax 01908 280825 http://www.stables.org/

OSIBISA - GIGS 2007

8th July 07 - Cornbury Oxfordshire www.cornburyfestival.com

15th July Finsbury Park, London

28th July 07 Anansekrome Cultural Day Event, London

29th July 07 Warwick Folk Festival

2nd September - Weyfest Farnham Surrey www.weyfest.co.uk/Films

6th November - Momo's Kemia Bar ... 25 Heddon St, London W1

GREGG KOFI BROWN feat. PAULINE HENRY (the Chimes) and KGB (The Osibisa Band)

Fall UK Tour 2006

Friday *22^nd-Sept Riverfront Jazz Festival -The Yacht Tavern, Crane St. Greenwich SE1 http://www.jazznights.co.uk/

Sunday 24 Sept Gala Peace Concert -Palace Hotel, Manchester- Gregg Kofi Brown w/Osibisa Ticketline: 0161 832 1111

Sunday 1^st Oct DINGWALLS, Camden Town, London box office: 020 7267 1577 http://www.dingwalls.com/

Saturday 14^thOct The Y Theatre, Leicester - box office: 0116 255 7066 www.leicesterymca.co.uk/content/ytheatre.html

Friday 20^th Oct Kuumba, Bristol - box office: 0117 942 1870 bookings@kuumba.org.uk www.kuumba.org.uk/events/index.html#events

Saturday 21^st Oct The Platform Station Buildings, Morecombe - Box office: 01524 582803 http://www.lancaster.gov.uk/

Thursday 26^th Oct Talking Heads, Southampton - box office: 023 806 78446 http://www.thetalkingheads.co.uk/

TBA Oct The Butter Market, Shrewsbury - box office 0174 324 1455

Thursday 2nd Nov Colchester Art Centre, Colchester - box office:01206 500 900 http://www.colchesterartscentre.com/

Monday 6^th Nov The Stables, Milton Keynes - box office: 01908 280800
fax 01908 280825 http://www.stables.org/

Fri June 30th & Sat July 1st 2006

Pizza on the Park

Show times 7:30 & 10:30

Knightsbridge, London

Abu Dhabi Jazz Festival
Friday April 28th
Abu Dhabi, UAE

http://www.chilloutproductions.com/

GIGS WITH OSIBISA

Saturday 25th March 2006
Brewery arts centre
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 4HE

http://www.breweryarts.co.uk/

Sunday 30th April 2006
M.A.D.D.MAY FEST.
Faringdon Oxfordshire

http://www.faringdon.org/nvwhatson.htm

Friday 16th June 2006
Beverly Festival
Beverly Leisure Centre
Flemingate
Beverly HU 17 0LT

http://www.beverleyfestival.com/

Friday 21st July 2006
Trowbridge Festival
Stowford Manor Farm
Winsfield

http://www.trowbridgefestival.co.uk/

Sunday 6th August 2006
Wickham Festival

http://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/location.html

Friday 11th August 2006
Broadstairs Folk Festival
Concert Marquee
Peirrement Park
Broadstairs, Kent

http://www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk/

CONTACTS

Gregg Kofi Brown & The Osibisa Band

Autumn Tour 2007

Last year Gregg Kofi 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