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Ron Deutsch gives a full rundown on the 37th Nuits D'Afrique festival in Montreal.

World Music Show host & producer Ian Stewart interviews Pascal Danae’ on the show this week, in which they talk about Napoleon, the history behind the band’s name and what part of Danae’s past led to creating the band—and why the sousaphone is a good replacement for a bass guitar.

9 April 2021 An immigrant worker rises at four in the morning, stuffs newspaper in his boots to keep out snow, and goes to a backbreaking job where he must ignore the names he’s called. A mother demands to know what other children said to her child at the playground; the child refuses because “those words burn my heart”. A refugee who spent 100 days at sea with the hope of breaking old chains laments that “in La Rochelle harbor I broke my dreams”. Another immigrant worker, whose papers have been stolen, works off the books and is treated “like a dog” by churchgoers who “call t...

Delgres Comes Back, Urging “Assez Assez” Creole roots rockers Delgres announced an upcoming album with a new single and video, “Assez Assez.” Just hit play: It’s hard to nail exactly what kind of music Delgrés plays—lead singer Pascal Danae has roots in Guadeloupe, but he also has an obvious mastery of rootsy American blues, folk and jazz. Of course, these threads intertwine in New Orleans, so maybe it’s no surprise that the band is practically rockabilly, with a tuba holding down the low end. If their genre is unclear, the band’s ethics aren’t. “Assez Assez” [Enough...