Freshlyground on Wommusic!

We are SUPER excited to announce that Wommusic will release the new Freshlyground album “Take me to the Dance” in the US & Canada in March 2013.

Freshlyground is an infectious & hugely popular band from/in South Africa, went Multi-Platinum in South Africa on their 2nd release “Nomvula” in 2004. was voted MTV Best  African Artist  of the year in 2006, did the official FIFA World Cup 2010 song “Waka Waka” with Shakira.

We discovered Freshlyground on a South African music sampler while traveling to Cape Town with Kurt Rosenwinkel for the 2007 Cape Town Jazz Festival. Their song “Doo Be Doo” (from “Nomvula”) immediately stood out among the other songs on the sampler. We have since then been in touch with the band, and are now finally able to start a formal collaboration with them.

Freshlyground has performed in the US on several tours already, and will be returning in March. The first show is on March 16 at the legendary Apollo Theater in New York City. Get your tickets for that show by clicking here. You can find the other dates by clicking here.

“Take me to the Dance” is Freshlyground’s 5th studio album and was produced by Steve Berlin (member of Los Lobos & has produced artists such as: John Lee Hooker, Crash Test Dummies, Faith No More, Sheryl Crow, Rickie Lee Jones and many others). You can watch the official video to the title track from the album here. And a video from the making of the album here. Please add your comments as we would love to hear your opinions of the music!

Wommusic will also be representing Freshlyground as agents in the Americas & Asia.