| Main Performers | Staff Benda Bilili,
Baloji |
| Performance Notes | Staff Benda Bilili are like nothing you have ever seen or heard before: a group of paraplegic street musicians and ex-street kids from the Democratic Republic of Congo, making music rooted in Soukous (or African rumba) with elements of old-school rhythm and blues, reggae and funk. The band's star musician is Roger Landu, a shegue (street kid) who has become a virtuoso on the satonge, the tin can guitar he invented himself.
Afropean Congolese-born, Belgian-educated rapper Baloji mixes old and cutting-edge sounds with bitingly modern lyrics. But his most recent album finds him returning to his motherland in search of musical understanding and communal improvisation.
There will be no interval.
Introduced from the stage by BBC Radio 3 presenter Mary Ann Kennedy. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/132),
Handbills (RAHE/6/2012/39, 50),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24),
Digital Photographs |