Extra Golden's Kenyan members - Opiyo Bilongo, Onyango Wuod Omari and Onyango Jagwasi - were supposed to arrive at Vienna Airport yesterday morning for their show at the Stop Spot Festival in Linz this weekend. They did not.
The three musicians had apparently been detained by police at the airport in Paris for not carrying enough money.
Officials did not believe that they were musicians on official invitation to play at an international music festival, even though they had the necessary visas and documentation, and the three musicians were held and interrogated in the airport for several hours during their stopoever from Nairobi.
Eventually with the involvement of the Austrian and French embassies, promoters of the festival got approval for the band to fly on to Vienna.
We can't wait to hear them come up with a song called "Bogendorfer."
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