Burger Highlife musicians in concert

The auditorium of the National Theatre in Accra will on Saturday March 8 reverberate with sounds, beats and rhythms of Burger Highlife when a number of well-known highlife musicians of the 80s and 90s display their skills in another historic concert.

Titled “Made in Germany II”, the concert would feature some of Ghana's top musicians who created the unique style of fusing highlife with disco and funk culminating in a nice blend of Ghanaian and German music.

The show would present giants of Burger Highlife such as the evergreen George Darko, a genius on the guitar, Pat Thomas, the golden-voiced man and Lee Duodu, one of the originators of Burger Highlife and certainly one of the finest voices in Highlife.

Others are Charles Amoah, with his amazing dance steps and the 2007 discovery McGod. Also to be witnessed at the show is the music of Ben Brako and the jazz version of the genre created by accomplished keyboardist Bob Fiscian. All the musicians would be backed by the SYSTHM band, directed by guitarist/technician Zapp Mallet.

A distinctive form of highlife laced with contemporary sensitivities, Burger Highlife continues to enjoy compliments in Ghana following the successful and memorable “Made in Germany I”, also held at the National Theatre in 2007 as part of Ghana's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

The programme is being presented by the Goethe-Institut as its contribution to Ghana's 51st Independence Day celebrations. It is being produced by World Rhythms and supported by Lufthansa and the National Theatre of Ghana, with GTV, Citi FM, Channel R, Weekly Fyllla and Ghana Music.com as media partners.