Lauryn Hill Festival Tour Dates Summer 2007

After concerts in Hawaii and Japan, Lauryn Hill returns to Europe this summer to do several festivals. See below for all tour dates:
BRASIL

June, 09th 2007
Festival de Alegre in Espirito Santo

June, 12th 2007
PEPSI On Stage Festival in Porto Alegre

June, 14th and 15th 2007
São Paulo (SP), no Tom Brasil Nações Unidas

June, 16th 2007
Rio de Janeiro (RJ), no Vivo Rio

USA

June, 27th 2007
Lauryn Hill Concert, Paramount Theater - Oakland, CA
June, 29th 2007
Lauryn Hill Concert, Palomar Starlight Theater - Casino in Pala, CA

June, 30th 2007
An Evening With Lauryn Hill, Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas

ITALY

July, 04th 2007
Lauryn Hill @ the presentation of FIAT 500 in Torino, Italy

DUBAI

July, 05th 2007
Life Music Festival at Madinat Arena, Madinat Jumeirah, DUBAI

FRANCE

July, 06th 2007
Festival Solidays 2007 in Paris

UK

July, 08th 2007
London Hammersmith Carling Apollo

July, 09th 2007
Birmingham Carling Academy

July, 10th 2007
Manchester Carling Apollo

SWITZERLAND

July, 12th 2007
Sunset Festival 2007 in Zurich

SERBIA

July, 14th 2007
EXIT Festival 2007 in Novi Sad (Serbia)

TURKEY

July, 15th 2007
Lauryn Hill at Masstival 2007 in Istanbul (Turkey)

FINLAND

July, 17th 2007
Lauryn Hill at Hartwall Areena in Helsinki (Finland)

DENMARK

July, 18th 2007
Lauryn Hill concert at VEGA in COPENHAGEN, Denmark

NORWAY

July, 20th - 21st 2007
VIKA FESTIVAL, Norway

July, 21st 2007
Canal Street 2007 - Arendal Jazz & Blues Festival

ITALY

July, 24th 2007
Lauryn Hill at Lucca Jazz Festival 2007 in LUCCA

FRANCE

July, 25th 2007
Lauryn Hill at Nice Jazz Festival 2007

NETHERLANDS

July, 26th 2007
Lauryn Hill with Band at Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam

BELGIUM

July, 27th 2007
Suikkerock 2007 Festival in Tiennen, Belgium

CZECH REPUBLIC

July, 28th 2007
Music in the Park Festival 2007 in Praha (Prague), Chez Republic

USA

August, 06th 2007
FREE CONCERT! Martin Luther King Concert Series
An Evening with Lauryn Hill and Special Guests

Fugees Reunion “straight dead”

There were faint signs of hope. There were reasons to believe. There was even a decent comeback single released in late 2005 called “Take It Easy,” in which Lauryn Hill passionately and repeatedly proclaimed “we need reconciliation!” Now, there’s nothing but destroyed dreams and disappointed, disillusioned fans.

“Straight dead” is how Prazrakel “Praz” Michel described the status of the highly anticipated Fugees reunion album.

“You know, unfortunately, Miss Hill, she’s got some things she needs to deal with. I wish her the best, but life goes on,” Michel told SOHH.com.

In the meantime, Michel and lead Fugees vocalist Wyclef Jean continue to work on solo material and movies (”I gotta shoot a movie with my man Josh Lucas and Tim Roth after I finish my album,” Michel revealed), and Hill continues to make millions of anxious fans wait for her artistic insanity to end.

source: dose.ca | sohh.com

RELATED LINKS
Video: Watch the interview with Pras
Video: Fugees reuniting at 2005 BET Awards part 1 | part 2
Audio: Fugees latest (and last?) song: “Wanna Be” (2006)
Video: Fugees reuniting at Dave Chappelle’s Block Party in 2004

“Lose Myself” - brand new song by Lauryn Hill

There is a brand new Lauryn Hill song coming our way! The song is entitled “Lose Myself” and will be included on the official soundtrack for “Surf’s Up” - an animated motion picture. Movie and soundtrack will be released in June 2007.

“We are thrilled to be a part of the return of Ms. Lauryn Hill!,” exclaimed Liza Richardson, an avid surfer, DJ and music supervisor for “Surf’s Up.” “Apparently, she related to Big Z’s story — reaching the top, checking out for a while, doing some soul searching and re-emerging with joy — and wrote and recorded a real celebratory summer jam session for ‘Surf’s Up.’ We’re glad to have Lauryn back where she belongs!”

"Lose Myself" by Lauryn Hill

RELATED LINKS
Audio: Listen to “Lose Myself”
Message Board: New Lauryn Hill Song: Lose Myself - June 05th
Lyrics: “I had to lose myself, so I can love you better…”

Lauryn Hill at Bob Marley Festival 2002

I just came across this wonderful performance of Lauryn Hill singing an early version of “Social Drugs”. This was recorded in February 2002 at the “Annual Bob Marley Festival” in Miami. Enjoy! Thanks to Dazonne and the one who uploaded this video!
PLEASE NOTE: tune in at around 4:00 min to watch “Social Drugs”

“Music” by Joss Stone & Lauryn Hill

This is your chance to listen to Joss Stone’s song “Music” which features a rap part by Lauryn Hill! The song is included on Stone’s new record “Introducing Joss Stone” - in stores NOW!

“Music” is based on a Fugees track off “The Score” - supposedly “The Mask”.

Preview the song

“Colors of sounds, scales of beauty, audio scenery,
electric love, and rhythmic synergy, written to memory,
beautifully crafted scenery,
complex or simplicity, sonic energy,
piercing in sensitivity, sympathetic poetry, for some even identity, collective entity,
something to belong to, a source of energy,
the possibilities, wavelengths, and bandwidths,
higher vibration, energizing entire lands with,
something to stand with, or stand for,
lovers to walk hand in hand with and plan for,
in sanctuary, chords, harmonies, melodies, even riffs can be,
disguise human essence in sonically bottled ecstasy,
melancholy, agony breeds angst,
exercising anxieties, fueling entire societies,
making economies, stimulating, generating,
inspiration synonomously,
entertaining, expression, intangible,
invisible but undeniable,
plays the language of excitement on survival,
some call it tribal, but perfected is everything,
connected to everything, some say collectively, everything”

verse by Lauryn Hill

RELATED LINKS
Message Board - Lauryn Hill
Official Website - Joss Stone

Video: Lauryn Hill at Bob Fest 2007

Check out this hot new video of Lauryn Hill’s performance on Hawaii. Including a reggae version of “Lost Ones” mashed up with “Natty Dread” (original version by Bob Marley), “Ex-Factor”, and “We & Dem” (original version by Bob Marley & The Wailers). A very refreshing performance: experimental, vibrant…
PS: Click here for the full performance of “Ex-Factor”

Joss Stone Hones In On Soul With Lauryn Hill

British neo-soul songstress Joss Stone will return with her third album March 20th. Lauryn Hill is one of several guests lined up for effort. Hill appears rapping on Stone’s new track “Music.” Other collaborators on the effort include rapper Common, multi-talented producer Raphael Saadiq and producer Beau Dozier who worked on Mind Body & Soul.

“It’s a very special song to me that I wrote with Novel. This song is my realization moment, when I realized I was wasting my time looking for an unconditional love in another human being. So far in my short little life, I haven’t ever seen it completely. All love between all humans, I believe, is a tiny bit conditional. It’s not like that with music. The only true unconditional love is music and God, for me. The fact that Lauryn Hill was inspired by it enough to write what she did is just is crazy to me. I prayed on that one hard. She’s amazing. My biggest influences on the female side of music are Lauryn and Aretha, no doubt.”

“Lauryn Hill is just such an amazing artist. The song ‘Music’ started [off] based on an old Fugees song. We ended up taking a complete departure from the original, but it still had the vibe, and we just said how amazing it would be to have Lauryn do a verse. I called her mother every day for an entire month begging until she got the track to Lauryn. Her mother told me she really liked it and wanted to do it, and actually did her part through the phone. Every time I hear her on my song, it brings tears to my eyes.”

Source: accesshollywood.com, AOL Music

Wyclef Gives Free Concert in Jacmel, Haiti

The week-long YéleFest celebration in Jacmel, Haiti, culminated in a free concert for an estimated 40,000 people on December 1, 2006. YéleFest brought young Haitian artists, filmmakers, musicians and actors together for one week of activities in Jacmel, Haiti, with representatives of non-governmental organizations, volunteer groups, development agencies and donor governments. The program was designed to allow these diverse groups the opportunity to explore ways to use culture and the arts to create new models for achieving sustainable development.

source: yele.org

RELATED LINKS
Video: Watch Wyclef perform
Photos: Wyclef Jean’s Free Concert in Jacmel
Message Board: GET TO KNOW Yéle Haiti