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Events 2009 India tour OSIBISA feat. Gregg Kofi Brown
17th & 18th Nov. KOLA ACADEMY – Goa
20th Dec. Jazz Cafe – London
Saturday 25 April San Javier Jazz Festival, Spain
Friday 19 June 2009 Northcote Carnival Gregg Kofi Brown
Winchester, UK Gregg Kofi Brown
Hay on Wye, UK Gregg Kofi Brown & Afrobeat band
10 Dean St Soho, London W1D 3RW Gregg Kofi Brown with Afrobeat Band
Donnington Park Farm, Castle Donnington, UK Osibisa
Alnwick NE66 1PQ, UK Osibisa 6 September 2009 20:00
16-27 Sept 2009 20:00 Greenwich, UK
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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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 ‘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
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. 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. And,
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