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  1. Visit Return of the Big Voice Return of the Big Voice

    http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/music/9806/980618-voice.html

    Pennywhistle master Big Voice Jack Lerole played on the streets of Alexandra township in the Fifties. Today he's a star in New York. Peter Makurube takes a cruise down memory lane

  2. Visit Sophiatown and South African Jazz: Re-appropriating a Cultural Identity Sophiatown and South African Jazz: Re-appropriating a Cultural Identity

    http://www.africultures.com/index.asp?menu=revue_affiche_article&no=5743&lang=_en

    "'African jazz' in Johannesburg developed as part of a tenuous effort to establish social institutions, and settings for the creation of community in a segregated context. For performers themselves there were both opportunities and dangers involve… More

  3. Visit The Originals� by Arnold Rypens The Originals� by Arnold Rypens

    http://www.originals.be/eng/main.cfm?c=t_new_show&id=8970

    Some interesting details regarding Tom Hark by Elias & His Zigzag Jive Fluters

  4. Visit a Kwela recording a Kwela recording

    http://www.chiffandfipple.com/kwelarecord.htm

    Description of an original kwela single: "Pennywhistle Kwela", Columbia SEYJ 105. www.kwela.co.uk

    • Saved by kwela on April 16, 2007.

  5. Visit BBC - Radio 3 World on Your Street - Musicians' Stories: Dave Woodhead(1) BBC - Radio 3 World on Your Street - Musicians' Stories: Dave Woodhead(1)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/onyourstreet/msdave1.shtml

    "Musician Dave Woodhead, penny-whistle, trumpet, coronet, tells his story." www.kwela.co.uk

  6. Visit Random Image for kwela Random Image for kwela

    http://ghettodriveby.com/kwela/

    "A random image for kwela, and a definition if applicable." www.kwela.co.uk

  7. Visit Return of the Big Voice - Zebra Crossing Return of the Big Voice - Zebra Crossing

    http://journeytoforever.org/keith/keith_zc-return.html

    "Pennywhistle master Big Voice Jack Lerole played on the streets of Alexandra township in the Fifties. Today he's a star in New York. Peter Makurube takes a cruise down memory lane." www.kwela.co.uk

  8. Visit Finding Tom Hark - Zebra Crossing Finding Tom Hark - Zebra Crossing

    http://journeytoforever.org/keith/keith_zc-TomHark.html

    "I think I was nine or ten years old when I first heard 'Tom Hark', and of course I had no inkling of the journey that had begun. My recollection of the TV drama it introduced is non-existent; diamonds, South Africa, and apartheid weren't even on … More

  9. Visit Kwela Jake Kwela Jake

    http://journeytoforever.org/keith/keith_zc-kwela.html

    "When he was only eight, Jake ran away from his home in Alexandra Township ("Dark City") north of Johannesburg. He took the six-holed tin pennywhistle he'd pestered his uncle to give him, and went to the city to play for white pennies on the stree… More

  10. Visit Back to Alexandra Back to Alexandra

    http://www.dispatch.co.za/1999/12/30/tvradio/TVPREV.HTM

    "Don't miss this excellent documentary about Big Voice Jack, a well known pennywhistle player from Alexandra in Johannesburg who is invited to play in America with the hugely successful Dave Mathews Band."

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