Africa’s live performance festivals all grown up
AT a music festival in Copenhagen, thousands of kilometres from Nairobi, Kenyan artist Elsy Wameyo found herself smiling as a familiar Luo greeting cut through the noise of the crowd and landed squarely on stage. “I’ll never forget the day I played in Copenhagen and a fan greeted me in Luo,” the artist recalled. A greeting in the Kenyan vernacular was the last thing she had expected. For Wameyo, a Kenyan-born singer-songwriter and rapper whose sound fuses hip hop, traditional African music, rap and R&B, the fact that "Nairobi showed up in northern Europe" is a reminder that African music…
