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	The Palm Wine Boys (the CD)
		Palm wine music is a West African style of guitar music, mainly from the countries of Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria.
		The name "palm wine music" of course comes from the music's association with the drink palm wine, which is made by tapping a palm tree and fermenting the sap.
		Palm wine music has had a few important musicians that rose from the local nature of the style to record and become known across the region and in some cases internationally.
	www.palmwineboys.com /palmwine.html (1378 words)

	Palm wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palm sap begins fermenting immediately after collection due to natural yeasts in the air (this is often spurred by residual yeast left in the collecting container).
		In South Africa palm wine (Ubusulu) is produced in Maputaland, the area to the south of Mocambique between the Lobombo mountains and the Indian Ocean.
		Palm wine may be distilled to create a stronger drink, which goes by different names depending on the region (examples are arrack, village gin, and village whiskey).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palm_wine (810 words)

	Ghana Popular Music 1931-1957: From Palm Wine Music to Dance Band Highlife
		Featuring different forms of popular music such as palm wine music, church choirs, singing bands, swinging dance bands and also art music, "Ghana Popular Music 1931-1957" documents the roots of the modern dance music of Ghana, which came to world wide fame under the name of Highlife.
		Often it was a trio consisting of guitar, percussion (box drum and clips) and vocals that performed at venues where palm wine or its distilled form the cheap Akpeteshi were sold and also offered for the musician's motivation.
		All these different music stiles are contained in a collection of more than 900 shellac records (78rpm), which was transferred to the archives of Mission21 when UTC stopped its activities roughly a year ago.
	pages.unibas.ch /africanmusic/archives/index.htm (1459 words)

	Nigerian Music
		Nigerian music also utilizes ostinato rhythms, in which a rhythmic pattern is repeated, and variable metres which change the time signature of a piece of music.
		Traditional music from Nigeria is almost always functional; that is, performed to mark a ritual such as a wedding or funeral, and not for pure entertainment or artistic enjoyment.
		The most common format for music in Nigeria is a call-and-response choir, in which a lead singer and a chorus interchange verses, sometimes accompanied by instruments which either shadow the lead text or repeat and ostinato vocal phrase.
	www.nigeria-planet.com /Nigerian-Music.html (3362 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Music of Nigeria
		Music is closely linked to agriculture, and there are restrictions on, for example, which instruments can be played during different parts of the growing season.
		The musical bow is found in Nigeria as a mouth-resonated cord, either plucked or struck.
		In the 1980s, she remained one of the nation's best-selling artists, creating her own unique variety of music called waka; she was so closely associated with the genre that a royal figure, the Alaafin of Oyo, Obalamidi Adeyemi, crowned her the "Queen of Waka Music"?title=in 1992.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Music_of_Nigeria (6117 words)

	Palm-wine music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre.
		Palm-wine music was named after a drink, palm wine, made from the naturally fermented sap of the oil palm, which was drunk at gatherings where early African guitarists played.
		Palm-wine music was first popularized by Ebenezer Calendar and His Maringar Band, who recorded many popular songs in the 1950s and early 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palm-wine_music (159 words)

	Highlife
		Palm wine guitarists had a tremendous impact on most of the West African music and their influence can be heard in both High Life and Soukous guitar players.
		Unfortunately, Palm wine music is on the decline, the last well known exponent Sooliman (S.) Roogie died in 1994.
		The music has been kept alive by a number of expatriate muscians living in London (where S.E. Rogie died), such as Super Combo and Abdul T-Jay, although the excellent music they have recorded is not maringa and Ghanian Daniel "Koo Nimo" Amponsah.
	www.notz.com /african_highlife.htm (821 words)

	Palm Wine Boys - Hold On mp3 music download available. Download from MP3 Extension and Get Paid for it. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Like folk and blues, the roots music of North America, it is the music of the township and village; "an expression of the day-to-day life of ordinary people, the music of their hearts.
		In its pure form, palm wine music is mostly acoustic played on a couple of guitars and accompanied by percussion.
		This subtle mix of acoustic and electric guitar reinvigorated palm wine music and it experienced a resurgence in popularity that took palm wine music beyond the shores of its native West Africa.
	www.mp3-extension.com /track/10792/Hold-On (1129 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - Palm Wine Boys Usher in West African Music to the Digital ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Palm Wine Boys is a sound that is different, slightly exotic, without being inaccessible,” says Richard Linley, PWB singer/songwriter, describing the band’s draw.
		Palm wine music originated in West Africa; Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Nigeria saw the birth of the genre.
		The Palm Wine Boys formed in 2002 when Richard Linley, Tom Chandler, and QB Williams broke from the world dance band Mud Hut to concentrate on pared-down acoustic songs.
	i-newswire.com /pr3789.html (639 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Glossary: African Styles of Music
		Also called mbira-based music, one of the best examples of this sound is the music of Thomas Mapfumo.
		Typical to the Palm Wine sound is the light and airy guitar riffs originally played on acoustic guitar accompanied by traditional percussion instruments.
		Palm Wine is the sweet milky sap extracted from the palm tree.
	africanmusic.org /glossary.html (792 words)

	CD Baby: PALM WINE BOYS: Up & Down
		Palm wine music is West African roots music.
		The tone of the Palm Wine Boys' music is both relaxing and engaging at once...
		With a West African heartbeat, lightly lilting the soul of highlife and Afropop with a wholly acoustic approach, the Palm Wine Boys have caputred a sound appropriate to their namesake- lightly sweet, spreading warmth through your veins and intoxicating the mind with a hopeful spirit.
	cdbaby.com /cd/palmwineboys2 (1261 words)

	Abdul Tee-Jay / cdRoots
		Guitarist Abdul Tee-Jay, best known as leader of the electric Sierra Leone dance music group Rokoto, has gone back to his roots to record an album of palm wine music featuring new versions and arrangements of palm wine classics that take the music into new territory.
		Abdul first picked up a guitar when he was nine, and listened to the music of palm wine legend SE Rogie, the local Sierra Leone street music, ‘milo jazz’, highlife music from Nigeria and Ghana, Bembeya Jazz from Guinea, and Congolese soukous.
		Like palm wine itself, these songs have long been fermenting in the mind of Abdul, maturing, developing, and now very definitely, are ready for public consumption.
	www.cdroots.com /st-tjwine.html (561 words)

	Ghana Music.com
		The first known form could be seen in the local Adaha brass-band music played in the 1880s on the Fanti coast, located in the south of modern Ghana.
		The second form of highlife was Fanti Osibisaaba music in which local percussion instruments were accompanied by the guitars and the accordions of sailors, particularly the Kru seamen of Liberia.
		By combining this so-called high-class music with local street tunes, a totally different type of music was born - the highlife we know today.
	www.ghanamusic.com /artman/publish/article_1052.shtml (785 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Africa on your street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Named after the cheap booze produced from the fermented sap of the palm tree, palm wine music is a light, straightforward folk style which can be heard in bars and on street corners right across Anglophone West Africa (Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia all have their own local variations).
		Coming from a family of highþying academics, Abdul was forbidden from getting involved in music, but he'd sneak off to sessions anyway, taking his guitar from its hiding place and always making sure he washed his mouth out afterwards to cover up the smell of palm wine on his breath.
		Abdul has always played palm wine guitar music informally and the first recording he made when he came to the UK back in the early 1980s was an EP of palm wine classics performed solo.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/africaonyourstreet/abdultj_feature.shtml (908 words)

	Digital History Resource Center
		Music played significant roles in many African societies, ceremonial (in official rituals); ritual (in religion); social (in birth, death, marriage, and education); functional (in work); and recreational.
		Music was also significant as a conveyor of history, which was frequently transmitted orally by a storyteller or griot.
		The blues is a feeling--"I've got the blues"; a distinctive style of singing and playing; and a musical form involving 12 bars, a read, repeat, rhyme lyrical scheme, and a blues bassline.
	www.class.uh.edu /mintz/places/music-african.html (1446 words)

	Sooliman E. Rogie - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As a youngster, Rogie was heavily influenced by the..
		While remaining rooted in the high life music of his birth place, Sierra Leone, Rogie incorporated influences of western pop and folk music to create his unique, heartfelt, music.
		As a youngster, Rogie was heavily influenced by the country music and yodeling of Jimmie Rodgers.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,486491,00.html (294 words)

	From the Hermitage (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab5.csail.mit.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Palm Wine music, originating in West African countries such as Sierra Leone, fuses Portuguese guitar music with local rhythms and melodies.
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	fromthehermitage.podomatic.com.cob-web.org:8888 (827 words)

	Koo Nimo: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The music is performed to perfection, with a lilting guitar backing throughout the recitation of various proverbs and stories.
		While remaining rooted in the highlife music of his birth place in Sierra Leone, Rogie incorporated influences of western pop and folk music to create his unique, heartfelt, music.
		He is loyal to his country, as well as a purist in his music, presumably avoiding newer influences (such as Afrobeat), and singing in the native Asante language, Twi.
	www.music.com /person/koo_nimo/1 (475 words)

	The Palm Wine Boys (bios)
		After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 1992, Tom moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, and began exploring African guitar styles in search of music with heart, as opposed to academia.
		Eliyahu has been deeply loving music since his birth (if not before), when on the way home from the hospital, his father lovingly sang to the newborn "No Dylan No Cry," thus introducing the young musician to the lyricism of Bob Marley.
		He has since become passionate about music education, finding fault in the western music conservatories with their over emphasis on the left brain, leaving out the original reasons for musical creation, such as the spiritual, the dance, the communication.
	www.palmwineboys.com /band.html (404 words)

	African Music Pages - African Guitar, Soukous, Highlife, Palm Wine
		I was first introduced to African music at school, mainly the music from Nigeria and South Africa.
		I played guitar in and arranged horn parts for a number of highlife, soukous, zouk and palm wine bands and among the artists I worked with were the Ivory Coasters, Prince Nico Mbarga, Louisiana Tilda, and S.E. Rogie.
		His impact on West African popular music has been acknowledged by a lifetime award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and in 1997 he was the recipient of the Grand Medal for Lifetime Service to Ghana from the Head of State of that country.
	www.alisdair.com /africanpages/africanpages.html (422 words)

	Juju Directory - Nigeria Arts.net - Home of Nigerian Arts on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since the evolution of juju music in Nigeria in the thirties, no exponent has made a more lasting impact in the genre than King Sunny Ade (KSA).
		Known as the Admiral, Dele Abiodun is one of Nigeria's most elegant and consistent stars of Juju music.
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	www.nigeria-arts.net /Music/Juju/?Directory (372 words)

	The Palm Wine Boys
		Acoustic folk, and west African palm wine music come together to make up the mellow rhythmic sound of the Palm Wine Boys.
		Based in the SF Bay Area, the Palm Wine Boys have spent the last two years playing around California, including appearing at the Strawberry Festival, the Wild Iris Festival in Sonoma, the California World Fest in Grass Valley, and numerous radio appearances including West Coast Live.
		They eventually realized that at the heart of the massive sound they were creating were simple songs that were being swallowed up by the desire to make people dance.
	www.palmwineboys.com (321 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The new CD features four-part harmonies, the dual intertwining guitars of palm wine music, strong bass lines, occasional flute, and a variety of African hand percussion throughout.
		Early African guitarists played at gatherings where revelers drank palm wine, the naturally fermented sap juice of the oil palm.
		I didn’t know how to mix the two and hearing him was like ‘wow’he was doing what I felt inside." Linley formed Palm Wine Boys in 2002 when he teamed up with Tom Chandler and Q.B. Williams, former band mates in the world beat group Mud Hut.
	www.eubookingagency.com /pwb/pwb_bio.doc (903 words)

	African Music Reviews -- Letter "R", Page 1 (DJ Joe Sixpack's Guide To World Music)
		By the way, I'm hardly a world's expert on African music, and this list is kinda whatcha call a "work in progress," so please feel free to make suggestions and comments.
		It is kind of interesting to hear Rocherau play in a live setting, but this stuff is nowhere near as captivating as the music he made in earlier decades, and the presentation as a whole has a rather simplistic, hurried, Ziggy Marley-ish "gee whiz!" feel to it.
		Guitarist Sooliman Rogie's career spand back to the 1950s, when he became a leading light of Sierra Leone's "palm wine" music scene, and his early work is prized for its light touch and raggedy appeal.
	www.slipcue.com /music/international/africa/aa_albums/R_01.html (686 words)

	Goodies Music Production \| Enter the world of hiplife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hip-life a blend of Ghanaian Highlife and Hip-Hop music started in Ghana way back in the mid 90s, and has now gain fame throughout the country's capital, Accra, as an amalgamation of street music and US hip-hop.
		In Nigeria, you have Afrobeat or Juju, in Sierra Leone, Palm-wine music and, of course, there is Congolese rhumba and soukous.
		The artistes listen to rap music from New York, or LA - Snoop, Busta Rhymes, though they enjoyed the music but not necessarily understand what was being said.
	www.goodiesmusicpro.com /hiplife.php (388 words)

	Waxidermy » S. E. Rogie - Palm Wine Guitar Music
		Palm wine music dates back to the days when Portuguese sailors first introduced guitars to West African port cities.
		Early African guitarists and bottle percussionists played at gatherings where revelers drank the fermented sap of palm trees, a traditional alternative to bottled beer.
		Rogie, palm wine music's greatest ambassador, began his career as "The Jimmy Rodgers of Sierra Leone." His early hit "My Sweet Elizabeth" stands as the most popular song Sierra Leone has produced to date.
	waxidermy.com /2006/04/21/s-e-rogie-palm-wine-guitar-music (259 words)

	African Music - A brief introduction to Palm Wine Music
		African Music - A brief introduction to Palm Wine Music
		Unfortunately, Palm wine music is on the decline, the last well known exponent Sooliman (S. E.) Roogie died in 1994.
		The music has been kept alive by Ghanian Daniel "Koo Nimo" Amponsah and a number of expatriate musicians living in London (where S.E. Rogie died), such as Super Combo and Abdul T-Jay, although the excellent music they have recorded is not specifically maringa.
	www.alisdair.com /africanpages/africanpalmwine.html (274 words)

	Freight and Salvage: Palm Wine Boys
		Acoustic folk and rural West African music come together to make up the mellow rhythmic sound of the Palm Wine Boys.
		Former members of the Bay Area world beat band Mud Hut, guitarists Tom Chandler and Richard Linley, vocalist Q.B. Williams, and multi-instrumentalist Eliyahu Sills perform the music originally played by early West African guitarists at gatherings where revelers drank palm wine.
		Inspired by the mellow natural high which such drinkers were said to enjoy, this "palm wine music" combined elements from Trinidadian calypso with local melodies and rhythms.
	www.thefreight.org /2006/0601-january/info_060120.html (177 words)

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