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Music: Global

Hugh Masekela's Chissa All-Stars

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When

Wednesday Feb 6, 2008 (8pm)

Where

Zellerbach Hall

2100 Bancroft Way

510.642.9988

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Price

$28 / $52

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Zellerbach Hall says…

Afro-pop innovator and consummate trumpeter Hugh Masekela appears in Berkeley alongside a band of standout players from his own Chissa Records. First given a trumpet in the mid-'50s by the famous anti-Apartheid archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Masekela traveled to America during a prolonged exile from South Africa and ignited a long career of crossover successes with his unlikely 1968 hit, "Grazing in the Grass." A key go-between for world-minded musicians like Harry Belafonte and Paul Simon, Masekela has done as much to preserve South African musical forms as Alan Lomax did for America's folk traditions.

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