Rise Kagona & Champion Doug Veitch

Who you might ask, well if you’ve ever heard of the Bhundu Boys this is their founder member with that distinct sound flowing from his guitar.

Joining him on stage is Doug, a Scotsman I know little about other than he appears to love creating Reggae and Cajun rhythms and the result is hotter and spicier than you could possibly imagine.

Seriously, despite the weather, if you could measure the warmth in music then this would be hotter than an African summer. The crowd’s a bit paltry, but that kind of makes it more special as we all stand there grinning. Yes, grinning ‘cos outside the tent it’s a different world to the one being forged before us.

Lyrics delivered like a drunken country singer about lost love, booze and women are welded with African songs, dizzying rhythms plucked from around the globe and with it that guitar, that guitar sound that started me and a generation’s love of African music.

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