ROMP Festival will take place June 22-25, 2022 at Yellow Creek Park, located in Owensboro, Kentucky. The four-day music event will celebrate bluegrass and American…
ROMP Bluegrass and Roots Festival Announces 2022 Initial Lineup
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Mandola Virtuoso Anouar Kaddour Cherif to Release Djawla
Algerian musician and composer Anouar Kaddour Cherif is set to release Djawla, an album of Arabic jazz in January 2022. The album contains nine musical…
Tião Carvalho at Mestre dos Saberes Festival, a Showcase of Traditional Brazilian Music Masters
Por Do Som presented a new showcase of Brazilian artists in December 2021. The festival called “Mestre dos Saberes” (masters of knowledge) paid tribute to…
Palimpsesto to Celebrate Iberian and Mediterranean Music in 2022
Palimpsesto is a new music series that will showcase the music of Iberia and the Mediterranean as well. The event will take between January and…
Malian Musical Instrument Bolon in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
This week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added the bolon (also spelled m’bolon and nbolon) to the List of Intangible Cultural…
Rembrandt Trio Releases A Wind Invisible Sweeps Us Through The World
Dutch ensemble Rembrandt Trio has released a new album titled “A Wind Invisible Sweeps Us Through The World” (Just Listen Records, 2021). After playing together…
Congolese Rumba Inscribed in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Congolese rumba, a popular and influential musical genre and dance from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo was inscribed in…
Chaabi Groove Pioneers Issam Kamal & Mazagan Return with “Talayne”
Moroccan band Issam Kamal and Mazagan are back together after 8 years. The group pioneered chaabi groove, an infectious mix of North African chaabi (shaabi),…
Ellipse, the New Album from Quebec Folk Superband Les Grands Hurleurs
Acclaimed Quebec band Les Grands Hurleurs has a new album called Ellipse (La Compagnie du Nord). Ellipse showcases Les Grands Hurleurs’ traditional music style with…
Czech Girls Choir Kuželovské Zpěvulky Unveils Second Album
Girls’ choir Kuželovské Zpěvulky (Singers from Kuželov) from the Czech Republic has released its second album, V Kuželově sú děvčata … jak tá malina (There…