What the yearly North Sea Jazz Festival is to the Netherlands,
Jazz à Ouaga is to the Burkinabe.This weekend the seventeenth edition came to an end of this nternationally renowned jazz festival in the capital of Burkina Faso. A cross cultural collection of artists took the stage, concluded on Saturday with
a performance of the transcontinental
Trio Ivoire, an unlikely combo of a German pianist, a percussionist from Great Britain and an Ivorian xylofone player. Theme this year in Ouagadougou was how music can stimulate tourism. The West-African country is known for its music safaris for Western tourists. It is no coincidence that I have chosen a town in Burkina Faso as the last place I'm going to visit for
my book on African city life this Fall. In
Bobo Dioulasso I'll write about art, music and urban street culture.
What the yearly North Sea Jazz Festival is to the Netherlands, Jazz à Ouaga is to the Burkinabe.This weekend the seventeenth edition came to an end of this nternationally renowned jazz festival in the capital of Burkina Faso. A cross cultural collection of artists took the stage, concluded on Saturday with a performance of the transcontinental Trio Ivoire, an unlikely combo of a German pianist, a percussionist from Great Britain and an Ivorian xylofone player. Theme this year in Ouagadougou was how music can stimulate tourism. The West-African country is known for its music safaris for Western tourists. It is no coincidence that I have chosen a town in Burkina Faso as the last place I'm going to visit for my book on African city life this Fall. In Bobo Dioulasso I'll write about art, music and urban street culture.
