,stade des martyrs and grand hotel nowadays are very very very difficult to get for musicians
Pullman - the parent company has been making big efforts to make the hotel more prestigious being that it's no longer the only 5 Star hotel in town. Unfortunately, they feel concerts by Congolese artists don't add to prestige unless it's a special concert. A big issue was that the late night poolside concerts were too disruptive to western guests. The old DG of GHK, Bob Fal Mundani (RIP) was a big music fanatic, which is why so many concerts were held last decade. Incidentally, most of the recent concerts there were by foreign artists - for example Stromae.
Quote from: Matebu5 on May 16, 2016, 19:20Pullman - the parent company has been making big efforts to make the hotel more prestigious being that it's no longer the only 5 Star hotel in town. Unfortunately, they feel concerts by Congolese artists don't add to prestige unless it's a special concert. A big issue was that the late night poolside concerts were too disruptive to western guests. The old DG of GHK, Bob Fal Mundani (RIP) was a big music fanatic, which is why so many concerts were held last decade. Incidentally, most of the recent concerts there were by foreign artists - for example Stromae.Western guests are in a different country and want to dictate things? They are guests, so if the citizens want to play concerts their then let them. Concerts could add to prestige because they can promote the hotel by saying artist so and so have played here.