The DC Traveler

For you non-French speaking people (like me) that roughly translates to the Big Party of the French-speaking World.
French is the official language in 41 countries throughout Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and South America, and the second most frequently taught language after English. It’s also the official or administrative language of NATO, the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the international Court of Justice and even the International Olympic Committee. 
Visit the lands, taste the food and hear the music of 30 French-speaking countries as their embassies and governments present their respective cultures, people, traditions and culinary specialties.
The Casablanca Band will be performing …read more

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South African jazz trumpeter – actually flugelhorn and cornet player, Hugh Masekela, has been a jazz pioneer since the 1950s.
His exposure to music when he was young helped mold his style. Influenced by the 78 RPM gramophone records that he listened to as a kid, starting with American jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong (who donated a trumpet to the church in South Africa where he learned to first play trumpet), Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, led him on a road to intertwine local African rhythms into his personal jazz style. 
Escaping apartheid, he moved to the U.S. in …read more

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