Dobet Gnahoré and the Renegade Steel Orchestra

On Thursday, I went with Safia (a Tunisian who did the Salaam Program in the Bay Area a few years ago), Kristian, and Trina to see Dobet Gnahore and the Renegade Steel Orchestra (that's a Dobet song in the background) at the Carthage Festival. Dobet is an amazing singer from Cote D'Ivoire, and I loved her performance. Quite the look too - she'd clearly spent a lot of time on hair and makeup. After her, the Renegade Steel Orchestra played - a large group of steel drummers mostly from Trinidad. They were definitely skilled, and got the audience rocking on songs such as "No Woman No Cry," but it was a lot of steel drums. While they were quite good and did a great choreographed act, after an hour of it I was just fine being done. It wasn't helped by the fact that they were up on a stage - I feel like for steel drums, you have to be up close and personal to appreciate the energy of it.