Fela Kuti

What's going on Tuesday?

TV on the Radio @ Outside Lands 2009 (more by Chris Graham) today in NYC * Adam Lane @ The Stone * Chris Cornell @ Town Hall * Steve Adams @ The Stone * Tell Your Friends @ Lolita Bar * Black Lips, Vivian Girls @ Webster Hall * Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band @ Barbes * Terry Dame’s Monkey On A Rail @ Barbes * Necking, Yellowthief, Stats @ Death By Audio * The Go…

What's going on Monday?

tonight in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Cumbiagra @ Barbes * Kylesa, Hull @ Public Assembly * The Tiptons Sax Quartet @ Barbes * Jim Campilongo @ the Living Room * Jake Shimabukuro @ Highline Ballroom * Jakob Dylan, Nicole Atkins @ City Winery * Martha Wainwright sings Piaf @ Le Poisson Rouge * Milk & Blood, New Moods, Indyans, Wolfff @ Cake Shop * Brenden Wood, Colin Langenus, CSC Funk Band @ Zebulon * Sasha Dobson, Poundcake (Teddy Thompson) @ Rockwood Music Hall * Felabration 2010: A Tribute to Fela @ Knitting Factory * Superhuman Happiness w/ Fela…

a Superhuman Happiness residency & free Fela! reminder

Superhuman Happiness, the afro-funk outfit headed by Antibalas’s Stuart Bogie, kicks off a weekly Monday residency at Coco 66 tonight (10/4)…

a free Fela! show, the Budos Band @ Bowery, Patti Labelle on Broadway (but not for much longer)

The Budos Band in Prospect Park (more by David Andrako) The Budos Band celebrated the release of their new LP The Budos Band III at Southpaw last week (9/18), and now will wreck Bowery Ballroom on December 3rd…

Tony Allen played Stuy Town (pics), plays LPR late tonight

words & “What we bring is heritage,” said a gracious Tony Allen Tuesday night at the Oval in Stuyvesant Town. “Thank you for tripping with us…

Fela! didn't win Best Musical, but did get best choreography - here are the pics from the album release party

“The musical “Memphis” emerged as the early leader in the Tony Awards on Sunday night, while the film actress Scarlett Johansson won the first acting award: best featured actress in a play for her Broadway debut in the revival of Arthur Miller’s “View From the Bridge…

Fela! Broadway Cast Recording release party & album stream (and a chance to win tix to the Broadway show)

The previously mentioned BV-co-presented Fela! cast party/album release show is happening at Brooklyn Bowl on June 7th. DJ Questlove, Fela drummer Tony Allen (who also has another show coming up), OP…

upcoming Fela events - Antibalas at Webster Hall & more

Kniting Factory Records, in the process of reissuing all of Fela Kuti’s catalog, is hosting at re-release party for 7 CDs (that contain 14 albums) that they’re calling “Na Poi” releases (named after his ’72 LP/song) tonight (5/10) at Knitting Factory…

Fela! gets 11 Tony Award nominations, Green Day did ok too

“The new musical Fela!, which began life Off-Broadway, and the revival of La Cage aux Folles, earned 11 nominations a piece, the most of any production of the season…

Fela! still on Broadway & going to London, the soundtrack & actual Fela CDs coming soon, Femi Kuti touring this summer

DOWNLOAD: Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy (MP3) Fela!, the musical based on the Afrobeat pioneer’s songs and life, has been running on Broadway since November – this upcoming November it’ll be expanding to London’s National Theatre – with its two Broadway leads (who alternate nights now) splitting US and UK duties…
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