Friday, March 31, 2006

 

Host: Robert Fox

Robert Fox is the bass player for Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band. Robert has been playing and collecting music for twenty-five years and is a student of many musical genres. His musical influences include Duke Ellington, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, John Zorn, MC5, The Velvet Underground, Manu Chao and Johnny Cash. He is a labor union organizer and social justice activist who has also worked as a photojournalist, community organizer, translator and fill-in blues radio DJ. He once shook hands with B.B. King while wearing a shirt that said "I Am B.B. King." Robert studies bass with Rob Perl and lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, USA.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

 

About The Afrofunk Music Forum

The Afrofunk Music Forum is the source for daily news, reviews and commentary on Afrobeat and related music from Africa, The Caribbean, The Americas and beyond. Help us make this site a point of musical and cultural exchange by sharing your point of view and your experiences.

Seen a great show recently? Give us a report. Have a favorite recording that people should know about? Share the wealth! Got a funky music project or a new CD release? We’d like to hear about it. Want to meet other music fans and musicians? Speak up!

Let’s build an online community to celebrate and promote Afrobeat and music related to Africa, including its diaspora, allies, fans and supporters. Yeah Yeah!

The Afrofunk Music Forum is hosted by Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band.



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