Tasty Sofrito
Plena Libre
Plena Al Salsero (GM Musica, 2008)
Puerto Rican band Plena Libre specializes in contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican plena and bomba. Plena Libre's latest CD is a scorching live album titled Plena al Salsero, recorded in Monterrey, Mexico. On the live recording you can listen to what the band calls a Puerto Rican sofrito (sofrito is a popular sauce used in Puerto Rico, Spain and many Spanish-speaking countries), where the band combines tasty plena and bomba with salsa, Dominican merengue and Colombian cumbia.


El Barrio/East Harlem, New York - The Raices Latin Music Museum will present the 7th Annual Salsa Sunday festival celebrating Afro-Caribbean Latin Music and Dance on October 26, 2008 from 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm. The day long festival will be held at the Heckscher Building, One East 104th Street, off of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Admission is $7.
Michalis Terzis, one of the foremost composers of contemporary Greek music, has a new CD titled
The International Arts Festival (IAF) will celebrate 20 years of world music on a new date; from October 11th-12th in New Orleans. The music festival takes place at Scout Island, City Park from 12PM to 9PM and attracts musical acts and artists from all over the world, in an effort to fuse world music and heighten awareness of local community projects.
Vin Gordon - Gordon in de Garden Vol. 1 (Masaya Records, 2008)
Malian
Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat
Hamburg, Germany - H2 media factory GmbH, the operating company of the large music download portal 

