OCCIDENTAL BROTHERS ON TOUR
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AFRO ROOTS WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL
AMADOU & MARIAM
ANTÓNIO ZAMBUJO
APHRODESIA
BALKANBEATS
BANCO DE GAIA
BOBAN I MARKO MARKOVIC ORKESTAR
BOBAN I MARKO MARKOVIC
BOY WITHOUT GOD
C.J. CHENIER
CARLOS GOGO GOMEZ
CHOBAN ELEKTRIK
CHOPTEETH
CHRISTIANE D
CHRISTINE VAINDIRLIS
CLARA PONTY
COPAL
CUCHATA
DAMJAN KRAJACIC
DANIEL CROS
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DEL CASTILLO
DR JAYANTHI KUMARESH
EARTHRISE SOUNDSYSTEM
EGYPT NOIR
ELIN FURUBOTN
EMILY SMITH
FANFARE CIOCARLIA VS. BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC
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FIAF PRESENTS WORLD NOMADS MOROCCO: MUSIC
FOOTSTEPS IN AFRICA
GECKO TURNER
GENTICORUM
GEOFF BERNER
GIANMARIA TESTA
GODS ROBOTS
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HUUN HUUR TU
INDIAN OCEAN
IRENE JACOB & FRANCIS JACOB
JANAKA SELEKTA
JANYA
JERRY LEAKE
JOAQUIN DIAZ
JOEL RUBIN
JORGE STRUNZ
JOSEF KOUMBAS
JOYFUL NOISE (I GRADE RECORDS)
JUST A BAND
KAMI THOMPSON
KARTICK & GOTAM
KHALED
KHING ZIN & SHWE SHWE KHAING
KITKA'S CAUCASIAN CONNECTIONS PROJECT PERFORMANCES AND WORKSHOPS
KMANG KMANG
KOTTARASHKY AND THE RAIN DOGS
LA CHERGA
LAC LA BELLE
LAYA PROJECT
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LISTEN FOR LIFE
LOBI TRAORÉ
LO'JO
LOKESH
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MOHAMMED ALIDU AND THE BIZUNG FAMILY
MR. SOMETHING SOMETHING
MY NAME IS KHAN
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NAZARENES
NO STRANGER HERE (EARTHSYNC)
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OREKA TX
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PABLO SANCHEZ
PEDRO MORAES
RAYA BRASS BAND
SALSA CELTICA
SAMITE
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SHYE BEN-TZUR
SIA TOLNO
SIBIRI SAMAKE
SISTER FA
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SYSTEMA SOLAR
TAGA SIDIBE
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TARUN NAYAR
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TELEPATH
THE MOUNTAIN MUSIC PROJECT
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THE SPY FROM CAIRO
TITO GONZALEZ
TOUSSAINT
VARIOUS ARTISTS
VARIOUS ARTISTS
WATCHA CLAN
WHEN HARRY TRIES TO MARRY SOUNDTRACK
WOMEXIMIZER
WOMEXIMIZER
ZDOB SI ZDUB
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Chicago-based afropop ensemble Occidental Brothers Dance Band International will be bringing their unique blend vintage African guitar sounds to the East coast and Canada for a series of live dates later this month - and they'll be bringing legendary Congolese singer (and longtime collaborator) Samba Mapangala with them.

For those who don't know, The Occidental Brothers' blend of high-energy soukous, rootsy Ghananian Highlife and African Jazz conjures sounds of the golden age of the African guitar band and has made them favorites of of music critics and devotees of the style, but it's a sound that has also seduced an audience of listeners as diverse as the members of this multi-racial band.

The group is led by guitarist Nathaniel Braddock, an instructor at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and twice profiled in Guitar Player Magazine. Braddock is joined by jazz phenom Greg Ward on alto, Joshua Ramos on bass and Makaya McCraven on drums.

Congolese singer Samba Mapangala is one of the true legends of African music. In the 1970's he traveled from Kinshasa with his group Les Kinois to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi where he rebuilt the group as Virunga. For twenty years Mapangala and Virunga were the kings of the East African music scene, recording countless hits, many included on the cd "Virunga Volcano", recognized in the book "World Music: 100 Essential CDs" by Simon Broughton. He sings in the mellifluous, but rhythmically complex style of the Congolese singers, but sings in Swahili as much as his native Lingala.

The first OBDBI/Mapangala collaboration was the greatly-applauded tribute song "Obama Ubarikiwe" in celebration of the aspiring presidential candidate, and a favorite son of Chicagoans and Africans alike. Mapangala and the OBDBI began performing together in the fall of 2009, and have recently begun recording music for release in early 2011.

Occidental Brothers Summer Tour 2010:

July 18th: Ottawa Blues Festival, Ottawa, ON
July 22nd: Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
July 23rd: Iron Horse, Northampton, MA
July 24th: Waterplace Park, Providence, RI
July 28th: Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

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