3/27/2011

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Your reporter captured by a tribe of Papuans...fortunately a very nice bunch of them.

One of the highlights of the festival is the All Star Jam where one of te festival's participants chooses artists to perform an hour long musical session with...this year's curator was Nitin Sawhney who managed to get the best of the combined efforts of ScrapArts Metal, qawwali-singer Faiz Ali Faiz, the versatile 17 Hippies, Nigerian soul singer Asa and Horace Andy.

Festival closing main event was Juan De Marcos' Afro-Cuban All Stars...tight as a gnat's ass and creamy!

The last notes of the festival came by the voice of Faiz Ali Faiz, the heir apparent of the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan...an amazing powerful voice that danced around the percussion, harmonium and chants of his 6-piece band with consummate ease...his delivery of the classic Mustt Mustt would have met with approval from his great predecessor.

A great end to a fantastic festival!

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