Africa Is a Country

100% African Rock

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

100% African Rock

By
Sean Jacobs

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Last month South Africans BLK JKS played the Festival Rio Loco in the south of France–for what was a South Africa focus at the festival. They invited Malian Vieux Farka Toure and his band to join them for what was billed as “100% African Rock.”  The result: one and a half hours of good music. Even better, for an encore they bring on Thandiswa Mazwai to perform a cover version of the late Brenda Fassie’s “Too Late for Mama” with the  new 100% Afrian Rock band.  — Sean Jacobs

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