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Saturday, 2 July, 11:00
CD Open Air Stage - admisson free
HAMID DRAKE SOLO DRUMS, PERCUSSION
USA
Welcoming Drake for the first time in a solo context, we had the pleasure of hearing this brilliant, sensitive, endlessly rhythmic, intelligent, spiritual, and powerful drummer/percussionist from Chicago already in early 1980s as member of the Mandingo Griot Society and then in various other line-ups. In constant demand everywhere, Hamid Drake has built up an impressive roster of collaborators, including luminaries Peter Brötzmann and Don Cherry. Playing in a broad range of musical settings, Drake comfortably adapts to North and West African and Indian impulses as well as reggae and Latin.