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1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Thursday 10 March 2011

New African Voices concert: Youssou Ndour with Carlou D and Suzanna Owiyo

Carlou D (amazing voice range and incredibly tall)

Went to a very good and exciting concert@The Barbican, London last night – New African Voices with Youssou Ndour (Senegal) and Carlou D (also Senegal) and Suzanna Owiyo (Kenya). Much dancing and joy!

Rather fuzzy pic of Youssou Ndour

Some of the band





1 comment:

Luc Charlier said...

I envy you. This type of music is sheer fun, even for longer than seven seconds – as Neneh Cherry surely found out by herself. As for the Barbican, I discovered the place when it was brand new, in the early eighties, and quite liked it. How did it age?
I had attended a RSC performance of King Lear: the king himself was good fun, a nice chappy, but I didn’t fancy the jester. At the same time, there was this meeting of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association, but I found the sessions less inspiring.