On Friday, July 22, Seun Kuti, play the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn. However, the real treat on that bill will be the warm-up act, Faaji Agba, a collective of octogenarian Nigerian musicians. The link is to a planned documentary film about the group (by Nigerian director Remi Vaughan Richards), some of whose music careers date back to the 1940s.
* On Friday, July 29, Malian singer Oumou Sangare, is set to perform.
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Beautiful, reminds me of Kuku, I guess he is the new generation