Sauti Sol to Perform Alongside Alanis Morisette and Janelle Monae
Kenya’s leading afro fusion boy band Sauti Sol are set to perform at the Czech Republic’s BIGGEST music festival of the year, the Colours of Ostrava from the 12th to the 17th of July 2012.
News coming from Nairobi says Sauti Sol are set to perform alongside other established artistes from across the globe including America’s Alanis Morisette, Sea and Air and Janelle Monáe.
The group which also featured Tanzania’s rap crooner AY in their hit song collabo “I don’t wanna be alone” track,has been very active this year on the international circuit, with a variety of acclaimed appearances at the South by South West Festival in Austin Texas USA and at the Festival on the Niger in Mali earlier this year.
Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the festival is considered as one of C central Europe’s largest gatherings of artistes, music lovers and producers. Colours of Ostrava will be celebrating its 11th anniversary this year and features about 16 different performance stages which include 4 big open air stages, around 6 indoor stages and a cinema. The largest of these can hold up to 15,000 fans.
Other performers scheduled to appear at the 2012 Colours of Ostrava Festival include:
Björk, Banco de Gaia, Celso Piña, Hjaltalín, Portico Quartet,,Bobby McFerrin, The Flaming Lips, ZAZ, , Antony and the Johnsons with Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, Rufus Wainwright and his Band, Animal Collective, Parov Stelar Band, Kronos Quartet, Pohjonen, Kosminen, Fink, Hugh Masekela, Ibrahim Maalouf, Staff Benda Bilili, Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro, Tamikrest, Katzenjammer, Quique Neira, Gangpol & Mit, Ewert and The Two Dragons, GaBlé, R.U.T.A., The Movement of Utopia, Transcendence and Anarchy aka The Reactionary Terrorist-Artistic Union, Acollective, Shtetl Superstars, Barons Of Tang, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Euzen, Dánjal, Árstíðir, Rubik, Lindigo, Ensemble Yaman, Sea and Air, The Creole Choir of Cuba.
