" BobFest " occurs during the first weekend in November and features Reggae, Dancehall, Afrobeat, and World music.

Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s.

African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.

As inventor of the rhythms that underpinned Afrobeat and musical director, Allen felt especially slighted.

Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

Afrobeat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 1960s where Kuti experimented with many different forms of contemporary music of the time.

Afrobeat has profoundly influenced important contemporary producers and musicians like Brian Eno and David Byrne, who credit Fela Kuti as an essential muse.

Some Afrobeat influence can also be found in the music of Vampire Weekend and Paul Simon.

Afrobeat today is often mixed with other genres, such as hip hop, makossa, gospel, yahoozee and galala.

there are over 40 working afrobeat big bands including Antibalas, Chicago Afrobeat Project, Chopteeth, Femi Kuti, and Seun Kuti.

Some of Worldbeat's most successfully integrated folk elements include Celtic, Afrobeat, Mbaqanga, qawwali, highlife, rai, raga, samba, flamenco and tango.

It contributed not only to the development of jazz and salsa, but also to the Argentinian tango, Ghanaian high-life, West African Afrobeat, Dominican Bachata and Merengue, Colombian Cumbia and Spanish Nuevo flamenco.

The result was a profusion of new styles in the last few decades of the 20th century, including waka music, Yo-pop and Afrobeat.

Afrobeat is a style most closely associated with Nigeria, though practitioners and fans are found throughout West Africa, and Afrobeat recordings are a prominent part of the world music category found throughout the developed world.

Fela Kuti began performing in 1961, but did not start playing in his distinctive Afrobeat style until his exposure to Sierra Leonean Afro-soul singer Geraldo Pino in 1963.

Although Kuti is often credited as the only pioneer of Afrobeat, other musicians such as Orlando Julius Ekemode were also prominent in the early Afrobeat scene, where they combined highlife, jazz and funk.

In the 1980s, Afrobeat became affiliated with the burgeoning genre of world music.

Fela Kuti and his Afrobeat followers were among the most famous of the musicians considered world music.

By the end of the ' 80s and early ' 90s, Afrobeat had diversified by taking in new influences from jazz and rock and roll.

The ever-masked and enigmatic Lágbájá became one of the standard-bearers of the new wave of Afrobeat, especially after his 1996 LP C ' est Une African Thing.

Western rock and pop music, as well as Afrobeat, soukous and other genres have become popular nation-wide.

), cellist Oliver Krauss ( Tom McRae, David Gray, Paul Weller, Beth Orton ), and multi-instrumentalist Stuart Bogie of Brooklyn's world renowned Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.

Some lesser known artists like Alma Afrobeat Ensemble, Zirafa and Spinnerty, d-Lo, Bozak, Melodic Scribes, DJ Librarian, UC Hiphop, Saint Syke, and Zmick are also worthy of note on simply a local scale.

In 2012, the Mezcal Jazz Unit of Montpellier, France, collaborated by Internet with Grayhawk Perkins, a historian of the Muskogean nation, to make a recording titled Thirteen Moons which features " the soulful chants of ancient folk tales and more modern stories told in Mobilian.

The monastery of Valaam has a unique tradition of singing, called the Valaam chant, that combines some features of Byzantine and Znamenny chants.

The game also features authentic crowd chants edited by producer Dan Motut.

It features in the football team Plymouth Argyle supporters ' chants, particularly its variant on the folksong Oggy Land.

Like Guadeloupe, Martinique features participatory, call-and-response style songs during its Vaval celebrations.

The song features early Beatles ' trademarks such as call-and-response yeah-yeahs and scaling guitar riffs.

The album features eight tracks co-written by Neil and Tim, which feature the brothers harmonising on lead vocals, except on the sombre " All I Ask " on which Tim sang lead.

The song features background vocals by Pete Seeger.

A quote from the Akron Beacon Journal elucidates, "... Devo recently finished a new project in cahoots with Disney called Devo 2. 0, which features the band playing old songs and two new ones with vocals provided by children.

In commercial popular music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renderings of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals.

An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a-1 ( pronounced minus one ).

Singles from this album were " Krafty ", " Jetstream " ( which features guest vocals by Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters ), and the title track.

* Holly Johnson: Love And Hate ( 1994 ), features Johnson on vocals

* Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses: Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses ( features Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano and backing vocals )

Tricky often features vocally in his own productions and Chris Corner provided vocals for late albums with his group Sneaker Pimps.

Hootenanny saw Westerberg expand his songwriting capabilities ; in songs such as " Willpower ", with echoed vocals and a sparse arrangement, and " Within Your Reach ", which features Westerberg on all instruments, he revealed a more sensitive side.

Unlike the solo male vocals in the Rammstein original, this cover features both male and female vocals ( supplied by Laibach's Milan Fras and Mina Špiler from the band Melodrom ), and the orchestral sound of the original has been supplemented — and in some sections even replaced — by a more electronic element.

It features sensual vocals over mid-tempo soca rhythms, and very often elements of zouk and ragga soca.

The Kim Mitchell Band features his longtime musical partner of 26 years Peter Fredette on bass and vocals ( originally 2nd guitar and keyboards ) with Chris Sutherland on drums, and Don Breithaupt on keyboards and vocals.

The Led Zeppelin material features new arrangements and new instrumentation, including strings, Egyptian musicians and the haunting vocals of British-Asian star Najma Akhtar.

She has appeared on backing vocals on various albums such as Crowded House and Alex Lloyd's Watching Angels Mend She also features prominently on the new 7 Worlds Collide project, co-writing ( and sharing lead vocal ) the track ' Little By Little ' with her husband and sings on the track ' Isolation ' on the new Crowded House album, Intriguer.

" Miss Lucifer's Love " features vocals by Fuzzy Haskins and string and horn arrangements by Bernie Worrell.

Metal Box was originally released as three untitled 45-rpm 12-inch ( 30-cm ) records packaged in a metal box resembling a film canister with an embossed PIL logo on the lid ( it was later reissued in more conventional packaging as a double LP set, Second Edition ), and features the band's trademark hypnotic dub reggae bass lines, glassy, arpeggiated guitar, and bleak, paranoid, stream of consciousness vocals.

The next single from the album was the ballad " One Man in My Heart ", which features Sulley on lead vocals.

The intro cut scene of the game is a music video that features a full-length song with vocals, entitled the " DK Rap " which was written by Kirkhope and was performed by George Andreas and Chris Sutherland.

Becker and Fagen favor a distinctly soul-influenced style of backing vocals, which after the first few albums were almost always performed by a female chorus ( although Michael McDonald features prominently on several tracks, including the 1975 song " Black Friday " and the 1977 song " Peg ").

The record contained five new studio songs: " Power to the People " which features a music video, " Can't Bring Me Down ," " The Last Song ", " Strange ," and " I Hate Every Bone In Your Body But Mine ," the latter with DeVille on lead vocals for the first time.