Sihasin bring hope to Native American youth through music
Sihasin means 'hope' in the Dine'/Navajo language and the sister and brother duo Jeneda and Clayson Benally do their name proud. Currently in Europe with their Sacred Horse tour, we caught up with them...
View ArticleRastas and strong women: yah man!
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Rastafari. There are stories about women’s empowerment, great music, and of course, the quiz. Just click on the arrow in the...
View ArticleParis erotic museum cleans up at closing-down sale
France's only erotic museum on Sunday held a closing-down auction that brought in almost half a million euros,three times more than the pre-sale estimate.
View ArticleFrance gets New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band vibe
The Hot 8 Brass Band are from New Orleans. In the true black music tradition they mix the best of brass with funk, hip hop, heart-on-sleeve sentiment and loads of soul. RFI caught up with them at the...
View ArticleDING! The French presidential candidates start their race …
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the August announcement from a French presidential hopeful. There’s news from the Kitchen, information about the Bahá'í...
View ArticleUnpublished Van Gogh drawings unveiled in Paris
Sixty-five previously unknown drawings by Vincent Van Gogh have been discovered, the French publishers Le Seuil said on Tuesday. If proven true, it would be one of the biggest art world discoveries in...
View ArticleParis celebrates Oscar Wilde, the ‘first rock star’
Irish novelist, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was a Francophile, wrote in French, spent time here and died here in 1900. He’s buried in Père Lachaise cemetery, now a place of pilgrimage. But France...
View ArticleOrchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, purveyors of Vôdun-afrobeat
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou are one of West Africa’s oldest and most successful bands, masters of Vôdun-inspired afrobeat. Singer and co-founder Vincent Ahehehinnou talks to RFI about their new...
View ArticleMonet scores personal price record at New York auction
One of Claude Monet's Haystack paintings sold 81.4 million dollars ( 76 million euros) - a record for the impressionist master - at auction in New York on Wednesday.
View ArticleTiny nations and big moons
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the world’s five smallest sovereign states. We celebrate men and boys, listen to some great music, and of course, there’s...
View ArticleKoons offers 'Bouquet of Tulips' to Paris
American artist Jeff Koons announced on November 21 he would give Paris a "Bouquet of Tulips" sculpture as an offering of remembrance for the victims of the November 2015 jihadist attacks, city hall...
View ArticleFrance explores the Art of Peace
France is involved in conflicts in Syria and Iraq, its forces are in northern Mali and it is under a state of emergency at home. But the Art of Peace exhibition hopes to get people thinking about the...
View ArticleNawal's Afro Sufi music makes space for silence
Nawal hails from the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean. She's built on her ancestral Afro Sufi roots to create a unique sound, beyond both music and the material world. The first woman to play guitar...
View ArticleHong Kong’s youth and crazy facts
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Hong Kong’s youngest legislator. There’s “Tales from the Weird”, some great music, and of course, the quiz. Just click on...
View ArticleParis Photo celebrates its 20th anniversary
Paris Photo, Paris’ annual photography fair at the Grand Palais, is the world’s largest international forum dedicated to photography. With close to 200 galleries and book publishers represented – as...
View ArticleAriane Gray Hubert, drunk on love
Franco-American pianist, singer and composer Ariane Gray Hubert began her musical journey in India 15 years ago. She took her piano 'an alien instrument in India' and struck up an altogether original...
View ArticleGulalai Ismail and Aware Girls
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about US President-elect Donald Trump’s corporate bankruptcies. You’ll hear from special guest Gulalai Ismail, listen to some great...
View ArticleBlues festival encourages mentally handicapped people to create own sound
To mark the international day of people with disability (December 3) RFI reports from an experimental music workshop west of Paris where people with learning difficulties were seen as different, not...
View Article'Wolf and Sheep', an antidote to films about violence in Afghanistan
Wolf and Sheep is a debut feature film by Shahrbanoo Sadat which first screened internationally at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes in 2016. It won The Art Award given by the International...
View ArticleErik Aliana and Tûki roots
Singer-songwriter Erik Aliana talks to RFI about championing the ancestral rhythms of his native Cameroon on his new album Just My Soul.
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