January 2008
Hugh Masekela Chissa All-Stars
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8 PM
$22 Reserved Seating
$18 Seniors and Students
$10 Children Under 12
South Africa's legendary Afropop Jazz ambassador, Masekela has played music that closely reflects the street songs, church songs, migrant labor work songs, political protest songs and the sounds of the wide cross-section of ethnic culture South Africa possesses. By the beginning of the 1970's he had attained international fame, selling out all of America's festivals, auditoriums and top nightclubs. Hugh conceived the Broadway musical "Sarafina" with Mbongeni Ngema. After touring in "Graceland" with Paul Simon, Black Mambazo and Miriam Makeba, Masekela returned home following the un-banning of political parties and the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990. He will be performing with the Chissa All Stars a fresh generation of talented musicians from South African.
