One of the more interesting and unusual stories to emerge from the Vermont music community this year was the arrival of local hip-hop trio, A2VT. The group, which was the subject of a Seven Days cover story in July, is composed of three young refugees from Africa: Said Bulle (Somalia and Kenya), Cadoux Fancy (Republic of the Congo) and Geworge Mnyonge (Tanzania), who all currently live in Winooski.
Earlier this week, the trio released a video for their song “Winooski, My Town,” from their self-titled debut album. It’s a catchy little tune that fuses elements of American hip-hop with the more melodic, pop-centric hip-hop coming out of eastern Africa. The video finds A2VT preaching some seriously sunny civic pride, rapping, singing — and dancing! — in various notable locations around their adopted Onion City home. It’s a fine, funky tribute to a town that usually doesn’t get a lot of love.
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Where can you see the video?
Generose — we’ve fixed the video embed on this page, so you should now be able to view the video here. Thanks for pointing that out!