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...July 29-30, newportfolk.org Womad, UK There are few festivals where you can catch performers as wide-ranging as Nigerian musician Femi Kuti, Brazilian rapper Emicida, the UK’s Soul II Soul and Portuguese...
...Her new single “Softly”, which she recorded last autumn with producer Paul Epworth, follows similar themes — a wistful, upbeat track about yearning and lost love....
...; The Clash’s Paul Simonon on bass; and Britpop veteran Simon Tong, guitarist with The Verve....
...Suppose that when Paul Simon’s partnership with Art Garfunkel imploded, his career had ended....
...1970s Lagos hotspot The Shrine, which drew the likes of Paul McCartney to work in Nigeria....
...“Often people hear us and say it sounds like Paul Simon,” deadpanned Copley....
...She temporarily dismissed the other musicians, brought on John Paul Jones in their stead, strapped on her Gretsch guitar, and launched into the twanging echoes of “Kele Mandi”....
...No one can have expected what followed: a version of Paul Simon’s “The Boy in the Bubble” stripped of its Sotho swagger and transformed into a glacial drift over piano and strings....
...The best known is Femi Kuti, the reigning king of new-wave-of- Nigerian-Afrobeat: expect a pared-down set of a length his father Fela would have used to warm up....
...Paul Krugman was brave and brilliant after 9/11 when few dared challenge President Bush’s “war on terror”, but now he’s mono-tonal....
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