[FA Worldmusic] BBC: Kenyan Group Yunasi & "Next Big Thing" World Music Contest/Performance

[Evangeline Kim]

Tom Pryor, Editor, National Geographic World Music website, sent me a note
that we'd like to share with the listserv --

Best,
Evangeline

 "I saw this great Kenyan Afro-rock band at a festival in Zanzibar a few years
ago, and have been wondering what's happened to them ever since.

Then I was listening to the BBC this morning, and it turns out the same band
is one of the finalists in this worldwide "Next Big Thing" contest and are
going to the UK for the finals:

http://www.whatsoninkenya.com/allofthis/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7133135.stm

(the French lady wasn't in the band when I saw them)"