Hugh Masekela receives Womex Award - availbale for concerts in 2011 and 2012

We are very happy to announce that Hugh Masekela is the winner of the WOMEX 11 Award for Artists !

He will perform on Sunday morning, 30 October 2011, during the WOMEX Award Ceremony and do a second concert the same day in Copenhagen.

We are so proud and happy as this award underlines that Hugh Maskela is much more than "just" a jazz musician: he started this year as a special guest of U2 in South Africa and toured the USA in June where he performed with Wynton Marsalis at the Hollywood Bowl. He came to Europe with his new project called "Hugh Masekela´s Celebrate Mama Afrika" - a wonderful show with Lira, Thandiswa and Vusi Mahlasela as special guests. The show was a big success and will be continued next year. Hugh Masekela was awarded by Etnosur Festival in Spain at the end of that tour. Please read more below.

If you are interested to invite Hugh Masekela for a concert please get in touch with us now:    

Tour periods 2011: August + end of October into November.
Tour periods 2012: late spring + July
Exclusive territory: Europe.
Traveling Party: 9

EXCLUSIVE BOOKING CONTACT: wulf@griot.de
Related agents and partners:
UK: John Cumming, Serious
France: Sabine Girbeau, V.O. Music
Spain: Christophe Cassan, Chispas Music
East: Peter Basler, Basi Tours,
Italy: Alessandra Padovan, studiomusica

WOMEX wrote about Hugh Maseklela

"It´s been more than half a century since he first picked up a trumpet and he shows no sign of putting
it down yet. It was the instrument that helped him find his voice to sound out against the injustice and suffering inflicted on millions of South Africans by Apartheid and it helped him break out during those dark days to bring a musical communiqué to the rest of the world. From success in the US pop charts in the 60s, through the Afro-jazz experiments of the 70s, returning to Africa and touring with Paul Simon in the 80s and on until today, he has not stopped releasing albums, touring the world and engaging in new collaborative projects. At 72 years young, to paraphrase one of his album titles, the boy's still doin' it!

Hugh Masekela has been awarded with two Grammies in his long and incredible career.     
  He is Africa´s most important jazz and world musician of today. He has been on TV worldwide
several times in the last two years and highlighted a number of international festivals.

We are looking forward to receiving your mail and will provide you with sound/video material and
further information with great pleasure. Please contact: wulf@griot.de

Thank you in advance for your interest ! Best wishes and kind regards,

your GRIOT team
Marion von Gaudecker, Katja Plasse  Wolf v. Kap-herr, Heike Lieske, Mücke Qunckhardt,
Rudolf Hasselblatt & Wulf v. Gaudecker

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