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A Fresh Tune For West Africa

  

Grounded in West African tradition and propelled by the funk and jazz of today, blends its own genre of music .

The Greensboro group explores new ways to formulate West African music on their new self-titled album.

The band performs as part of the “” concert series at the in Durham next Thursday.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Africa Unplugged members: on vocals, guitar and djembe; Will Darity on guitar; and Kenny Phelps-McKeown on bass; and they perform live.

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Will Michaels is վ's Weekend Host and Reporter.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.