Various Artists – The Rough Guide to the Music of South Africa
It’s finals weekend. Holland play Spain for the honour of being champions of the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa. We’ll be there – there being in the comfort of our own home, in front of the tv. My prediction for this is a win for Spain, and though I’m a neutral I’d quite like to see Holland win – despite the problems this will cause me posting next week!
Tonight (Saturday) it is the third place play off between Germany & Uruguay. Northampton’s answer to Paul the psychic octopus has this down as a win for Germany. We’d like to watch this game too but culture must come first; we’re off to On Common Ground a show in which Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton use music and words to tell the tale of Northamptonshire poet, John Clare.
Talking about finals – today is my final post of South African music for this series and I have chosen another track from the Rough Guide to the Music of South Africa. To give a little variety to the selections, I’ve decided to choose a female vocalist so here is Miriam Makeba and The Skylarks singing Ndidiwe Zintaba