Senegal Jazz Festival Sees Renewed Interest

Once a lively French colonial trading port, the sleepy city of Saint-Louis in West Africa's Senegal bursts into life for just a few days a year during the annual summer jazz festival.   From dusk, jazz from the open-air concert blends with African rhythms, and drifts off the shores of the tiny island where the festival is held down the normally tranquil banks of the Senegal River.   This year's headline act, African-American blues singer Lucky Peterson, would have been...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - jeudi 12 juin 2014