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Make highlife national treasure Veteran artistes BY: Gifty Owusu-Amoah Category: Events Mr Mike Eghan (2nd left), a pioneer broadcaster, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), and Prof. Amin Alhassan (right), Director-General of the GBC, unveiling the logo to officially launch the Highlife is Alive Fan Club. With them is Prof. Kwame Karikari (left), Board Chairman of the Graphic Communications Group Ltd. Picture: ESTHER ADJEI Veteran highlife artistes have stressed the need for a concerted effort to preserve that genre of music as a national art treasure and heritage. That, according to them, was the surest way of preserving Ghana’s culture and heritage on the global music stage, in the face of the steady threat posed by new and foreign music styles, such as Dancehall, in Ghana’s music business. ....
Africa Today (Night Dreamer, B086Y5P9DW) ( first 13 seconds, then to bed) GEORGES: WE’RE HEARING NIGERIAN TRUMPETER AND COMPOSER ETUK UBONG FROM HIS 2020 RELEASE AFRICA TODAY, RECORDED DIRECT TO DISC IN THE NETHERLANDS. ETUK IS PART OF A POWERFUL MOVEMENT OF ARTISTS FUSING JAZZ AND AFRICAN MUSIC IN NEW WAYS. ACTY: 01 Etuk-Africa.wav: Trust me, what made Hugh Masekela who he is? It was because when Hugh Masekela got to America, the likes of Coltrane, the likes of Miles Davis and Art Blakey told him, You need to play African jazz, man. You need to reflect Africa.” And then Hugh Masekela becomes great automatically. With my kind of music, it s just about the culture. It doesn t sound like pop. It doesn t sound like rap music. It sounds like Africa. ....