Walter Payton College Prep’s Humanities Festival

Walter Payton College Prep’s Humanities Festival Presents “The G Concert” Raising ‘G’s for Ghana and Globalism benefit at The Lincoln Hall (2424 N. Lincoln Ave) on Sunday, Jan. 31 at 6 p.m. featuring Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, special guest appearance with Congolese music legend, the great Samba Mapangala and opening act by local band Kids These Days. The Occidental Brothers Dance Band International blend of high-energy soukous, rootsy Ghananian Highlife and African Jazz conjures sounds of the golden age of the African guitar band and has made them favorites of music critics and devotees of the style, but it's a sound that has seduced an audience of listeners as diverse as the members of this multi-racial band. The group is led by guitarist Nathaniel Braddock, an instructor at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and twice profiled in Guitar Player Magazine. Afropop Worldwide Senior Editor Banning Eyre exclaims of Braddock,

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