About World Music Central
Thank you for visiting our Web site. World Music Central is a music site dedicated to World Music. We feature the latest news, CD and concert reviews, articles, an events calendar, and resources for music fans, industry professionals and researchers. By World Music we mean traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from the entire globe, as well as cross-cultural fusions and hybrids.
History
Angel Romero y Ruiz is the founder of World Music Central. The web site began as World Music Portal.com in 2002. A few years later the portal changed its name to World Music Central.org. The website is based in Durham (North Carolina, USA). Angel also runs a progressive rock music site called Progressive Rock Central
Address:
World Music Central
2524 Cascadilla Street
Durham, NC 27704-4406
USA
Staff
- Founder & Senior Editor – Angel Romero, Email: angel [at] worldmusicentral dot org
- Webmaster – Toban Penner
- Database developers: Stephen Cowles and Jarvis Davis
- Editor - Teresa Nelson-Romero, Email: teresa [at] worldmusicentral dot org
CD Reviewers
- Tom Orr
- TJ Nelson
- Patricia Herlevi
- Les Moncada
- Ángel Romero
Contributors
- Jill Turner: news, reviews and articles
- Ms. Lakshmi: Indian music news and reviews
- Susan Budig: Interviews and concert reviews
- Tony Hillier: articles
