By Stephen Kwabena Effah
Saturday, 19 January 2008
THE United Kingdom’s most highly regarded roots-reggae band, Steel Pulse, will tonight lead an array of celebrated African musicians at the Independence Square in Accra to start the Ghana 2008 football tourney in a musical way. It has been dubbed the "Go Africa Concert".
The show is expected to draw both foreign and local football and music lovers across Africa who have arrived in the country for the 2008 MTN Africa Cup of Nations, Ghana 2008, which begins tomorrow.
Billed to perform alongside the Grammy award-winning band are the female trio from Uganda, Blu 3; Orentchy from Cote D’Ivore, King Nee from Togo, Nigeria’s 2 Face Idibia, Malaika from South Africa, Don Metok from Benin and a host of others.
Representing Ghana are the now most sought for artistes in the hip life industry, Batman Samini, Tic Tac, Ofori Amponsah and Kwaw Kesse among others.
The audience is assured of nothing but pure music of all genres which would be brewed with football actions to herald the opening match between the Ghana Black Stars and Guinea on Sunday afternoon at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra.
Malaika is expected to treat the fans to some Afro pop music while the multi-lingual Orentchy dish out some refreshing francophone and funky music with the Ghanaian artistes delivering some great hip life and highlife tunes.
According to the organisers, fans should count on the several artistes for their favourite songs as the artistes are really poised to deliver to make the 2008 tournament a memorable one in its history.
The "Go Africa Concert" has been put together by MTN in collaboration with other partners and powered by Charter House Productions.
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