Yawo

Yawo and les fils Attivon will perform in the Market Place at 6 p.m. Friday night, October 24, 2003. The African music group is has musicians from Togo, Senegal, Brazil, Uruguay and the U.S. and are based in Minneapolis.

With influences ranging from Fela Anikulapo Kuti to Youssou N'dour and String, the flavor of this music is enhanced by the Brazilian ingredients of Eliezer Freitas Santos (whom Yawo Attivor and Matt Hupton met after they moved to Minneapolis), and the mbalx of Ghana M'baye and the jazzy tones of Stephen Kung. As some in the Twin Cities are already saying, this is world music with an Afro-Brazilian attitude.