-Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has secured 60-thousand dollars for a Carefree-based charitable donation that aids nomadic people in drought-stricken West Africa. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Express and Star (UK)
Review of Wolverhampton, UK Show December 12, 2005
by Gemma Handy

With incense burning, Moroccan rugs strewn across the stage and an array of bewildering-looking instruments, the scene was set for an innovative world music-style performance. ||Continue reading||

Review of December 4, 2005 Palais Show, London, UK
Originally appeared in timesonline.co.uk

“I HAVEN’T been in here since Dave Edmunds was chucking up in ’72,” smiled Robert Plant, peering out at a Palais crowd that was crammed into every available space. Back then, at the peak of Led Zeppelin’s success, Plant was the ultimate rock god and, three decades on, despite the mellowing of his music and a voice that avoids its top range, he remains an enigmatic frontman with a swagger in his step. ||Continue reading||

Review of December 4, 2005 Hammersmith Palais, London Show
originally appeared on independent.co.uk
By Chris Mugan

This time last week, the Arab punks Rachid Taha and his band earned five stars for their impressive performance. Now, the legend who fronted Led Zeppelin has come close with his own brand of desert rock. Long a fan of the exotic sounds of far-flung locales, from the Kush to the Atlas mountains, as first heard on the Zep’s own “Kashmir”, Robert Plant has returned to such influences in recent years. His current album, Mighty Rearranger, improves on the blues, folk and Arabic sounds template laid down on 2002’s Dreamland. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared on Wolverhampton Grammar School News Page

One of the region’s leading independent schools hosted Robert Plant in December to open their new music block. Robert Plant formally of supergroup Led Zeppelin has been touring the globe with his new group The Strange Sensation supporting last year’s Grammy nominated album ‘Mighty Rearranger’. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Afro pop newsletter
Excerpts from Robert and Justin’s talk at Womex, Oct. 26, 2005

Robert Plant: “From my viewpoint, world music carries a kind of slur, because there are areas of music and musical promotion, and attempts at material gain, which are basically pumping out such crap. Never mind the pop world. It’s the same in all the different spheres. Because it’s a money machine as well. The sad thing is it’s a small percentage of what is called world music that is sullying the whole picture of it, I think.” ||Continue reading||