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"A Night in Tahrir Square" featuring El Tanbura - 26.05.11

  Friday 22 July 2011 7.30pm Barbican Hall, London A Night in Tahrir Square Featuring El Tanbura, Azza Balbaa, Mustafa Said & Ramy Essam Tickets £12.50 / £15 / £20 / £25 Between January 25th and February 11th, Cairo's Tahrir Square turned into a cross between Woodstock and a giant soapbox. Music and poetry played a crucial role in breaking the ice and melting the fear of tyrannical decades. The Barbican Hall in London celebrates people power in the...

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Steven Sogo to join Africa Oye! line up. - 26.05.11

Africa Oyé is the UK's largest celebration of African music and culture and takes place in Liverpool's Sefton Park, on 18 and 19 June. Steven Sogo and Hope Street are a late addition to the line-up and will appear at 4.00pm on Sunday 19 June.   See www.africaoye.com...

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Bayou Seco, change of Hitchin venue - 26.05.11

Bayou Seco will now be playing at the Sun Hotel Ballroom in Hitchin on Thursday 26 May. Catch them then as they depart for the USA two days later!  Contact Steve Smither 07775 583581 for tickets.  ...

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Richard Thompson and Alistair Anderson jam with Savoy Family Cajun Band - 10.05.11

Check out this Youtube video of Richard Thompson and Alistair Anderson jamming with The Savoy Family Cajun Band at a crawfish boil and barn dance deep down in Louisiana, USA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtbpwGFgWfo Then check out the band's UK tour dates on http://www.accessallareas.info/artist_article/27/Savoy-Family-Cajun-Band.htm  ...

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White Cajun trash at posh English racecourse! - 06.05.11

Sarah Savoy and the Francadians are the latest act to be added to the already phenomenal Wychwood line-up, playing the main stage on Saturday 4 June at Cheltenham's famous racecourse. A Louisiana singer with hellraising credentials, Sarah is the self-styled queen of white trash Cajun with a rocker's voice and a solid guitar strum...and what stage presence! ...

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