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2009 Latin Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Awards Announced
Posted on September 25, 2009 | No CommentsLifetime Achievement Awards: This Special Award is presented by vote of The Latin Recording Academy’s Trustees to performers who have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field... -
From the Well of Cuban Soul
Posted on September 25, 2009 | No CommentsThe Cuban musician settled in Canada a few years ago and is greatly appreciated there. “When I went to Canada, I found this place very open, a new country, in... -
The Best of Morgan Heritage in The Journey Thus Far CD and DVD
Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments“Liberation” is the name of the song and rhythm track taken from Morgan Heritage Family and Friends Volume One, released in 1998 on the family’s HMG label. Produced by the... -
The Maeandros Ensemble to Perform Re-creations of Songs from Asia Minor and the Aegean Region
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsThe Maeandros Ensemble, which features some of the finest performers of traditional Greek and Near Eastern music in the country, is named after the river that “meanders” throughout Asia Minor... -
Native American and Corsican Polyphonies
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsAlex E. Smith, Cheevers Toppah & Nitanas Landry – Rain in July [Native American Vocal Harmony] (Canyon Records, 2009) Barbara Furtuna – In Santa Pace [Corsican Polyphonies] (Buda Musique,... -
Madagascar Slim to Celebrate the Launching of the CD Good Life, Good Living
Posted on September 22, 2009 | No CommentsWith his last solo CD OmniSource, Slim captured the World Music Juno Award in 1998, which was followed with Juno Awards for his collaboration involving Bill Bourne and Lester Quitzau... -
Indian Slide-Guitar Maestro Debashish Bhattacharya Begins 2009 North American Tour in September
Posted on September 22, 2009 | No CommentsSince discovering a Hawaiian lap steel guitar at the age of 3, Debashish has developed into one of the world’s greatest slide guitarists. Born in Kolkata in 1963, awarded the... -
Ukrainian Diaspora
Posted on September 22, 2009 | No CommentsThe theme of Diaspora (dissipation) is Eastern European migration. In the past two decades, tens of thousands of young Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians, Bulgarians and other eastern Europeans have been moving... -
Debashish Bhattacharya at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle
Posted on September 20, 2009 | No CommentsDebashish Bhattacharya grew up accompanying his parents, who are both vocalists, but he distinguished himself as a prodigy at age 3 after discovering a Hawaiian guitar at home, a remnant... -
Swedish Folk Masters Väsen to Perform in Philadelphia
Posted on September 20, 2009 | No CommentsThis musical landscape may have global resonance, but it is based on nyckelharpa player Olav Johansson and violist Mikael Marin’s home turf: the villages and village musicians of eastern Sweden,...