Yatrika Shah-Rais, host of Global Village every Wednesday on KPFK, hosts a wonderful show, and also runs a great music program at the Skirball Cultural Center. She has invited Benjamin Lebrave to her show on Dec 10 to explain Akwaaba’s concept and mission, and share some of the sounds from our catalog.
Tune into 90.7FM in the Los Angeles area, listen on KPFK’s site or here:
From the people who hooked up the NextAid fundraiser, comes yet another rump shakin’ event at Red’s, a great Santa Barbara spot we discovered last time around. Expect another full dose of Afro-centric sounds… most info on the flyer, full low down via our mailing list.
BBRAVE and DJ Bennett at Elsie’s, warm up for Saturday’s gig with Nextaid, at this chill Santa Barabara spot. 21+, 9pm – 2am.
JMV, Le Branché head honcho and De signer producer, invites BBRAVE for his Wednesday weekly at Carbon, a pleasant dive in Culver City. 21+, 9pm – 2am.
On November 7, Akwaaba Music welcomes you to the release party for Akwaaba wo Africa, its first release, and the introduction to its wide spanning catalog of fair trade African music.
Akwaaba wo Africa – welcome to Africa in twi, the language of the Ashanti people of Ghana. An eclectic sampler of acoustic Senegalese music, Malian pop, reggae, salsa, highlife and hiplife, all recorded in Africa. All of Akwaaba’s artists have released music locally, but have never had the opportunity to take their music outside of Africa. Akwaaba signed fair deals with these artists, splitting its net revenue 50-50 with all of its licensees, and working directly with the artist whenever possible.
For this first event, Akwaaba has received strong support from some of LA’s most prominent purveyors of African sounds. Tom Schnabel and Jeremy Sole, both renowned KCRW hosts and DJs, will share their take on contemporary African music, along with the Bay Area’s own DJ Chief Boima, and Akwaaba founder Benjamin Lebrave. Salt has actively been supporting Akwaaba. It is an elegant and minimal boutique of women’s designer clothing, located on Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice, CA. It has featured art and hosted exhibits for local artists such as Deborah Glusker and Sherry Olsen (flyer).
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NextAid is a Los Angeles based nonprofit organization committed to developing and implementing innovative sustainable solutions to the challenges facing African children.
NextAid’s mission is to promote community-driven environmentally, economically and socially empowering responses to the AIDS orphan pandemic. NextAid collaborates with individuals, businesses and nonprofits to produce culturally-rich, awareness-raising projects and music events involving technology, the arts, public education projects, and volunteer opportunities.
Through grass-roots efforts, NextAid provides opportunities for concerned individuals to make a tangible difference in the lives of African children in need.
Now to the matters at hand..
Using beat of our generation to provide hope for the next, NextAid presents
Jeremy Sole (Afro Funke, KCRW, LA)
BBRAVE (Akwaaba Music, SF)
DJ Magneto (SB)
Deejay Bennett (Baltimore transplant)
Saturday October 25, 9pm – 2am
Red’s, 221 Helena Ave, Santa Barbara, CA
$5 suggested donation.