An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends

An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends
Live album by Harry Belafonte
Released	August 26, 1997
Genre	Pop, folk, world
Length	68:43
Label	Island
Producer	David Belafonte
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte '89 (1989) An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends (1997)

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An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends is a live album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1997. The album is the soundtrack of a concert, televised by PBS in March 1997. It was also released as a concert video. In 2003 the concert video was also released on DVD.

Track listing

1. "We Are the Wave" (Jake Holmes, Richard Cummings, The Soul Brothers) – 3:52
2. "Turn the World Around" (Harry Belafonte, Robert Freedman) – 6:14
3. "Island in the Sun" (Lord Burgess, Harry Belafonte) – 4:36
4. "Skin to Skin" (Holmes, Godfrey Nelson) – 4:44
5. "Kwela (Listen to the Man)" (Holmes, S. M. Nkabinda) – 5:33
6. "Eyala" (Richard Bona) – 3:46
7. "Matilda" (Norman Span) – 9:50
8. "Dangerous Times" (Holmes) – 4:50
9. "Try to Remember" (Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) – 4:29
10. "Paradise in Gazankulu" (Holmes, Oben Ngobeni) – 7:15
11. "Eyando" (Bona) – 3:02
12. "Jamaica Farewell" (Burgess) – 6:44
13. "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" (William Attaway, Irving Burgie) – 7:40

Personnel

• Harry Belafonte – vocals
• Richard Bona – solos on "Eyala" and "Eyando", guitar
• Mamadou Ba – bass
• Morris Goldberg – woodwinds
• Dan Carillo – guitar
• Domonic Kanza – guitar
• Galen "Lenny" Underwood – keyboards, background vocals
• James R. Sebastian – drums
• Edison Da Silva – percussion
• Emedin Rivera – percussion
• LaTanya Hall – background vocals
• Gwendolyn Jackson – background vocals
• Sam McKelton – background vocals
• Fluitt – background vocals

Production notes:

• David Belafonte – producer, engineer, mixing
• Harry Belafonte – executive producer, liner notes
• Kooster McCallister – engineer
• Michael Halsband – photography
• Joanne Savio – photography