In a press release from publicist Jerry Digney, B.B. King announced his last international tour, which will be an extension of his domestic tour that…
B.B. King Launches World Tour
Author: TJ Nelson
TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow.
Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931.
Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
Wilson Pickett Dies at 64
Soul legend Wilson Pickett died Thursday, January 19, 2006, of a heart attack in a Reston, Virginia hospital in a statement put out by his…
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According to a 2005 Harris poll regarding the importance of an arts education in American schools, 93 percent of the respondents agreed that arts programs…
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The Way of Taiko By Heidi Varian (Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California. ISBN-13:978-1-880656-99-0, 2005) Billed as the first book exploring Japanese spiritual drumming written in…
World Music Central’s Christmas Gift Giving Guide
Have you turned into a parking space stalker at the mall? You know the ones who creep along at two miles-per-hour down a long…
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Shines on Live at Montreux DVD
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Live at Montreux (Eagle Rock Entertainment, 2005) Audiences all the world over have been amazed and awestruck by South Africa’s treasured a…
Music Industry Goes Global Against Internet Piracy
In an attempt to stem the flow of illegal Internet file sharing, the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has commenced new legal assaults…
Reshaping of South African Classics
FJ & Living Souls Ambient Africa (Eagle Records ER20079-2, 2005) In 2003, Mike Howell and Brian Adams, both of Eagle Records, got the bright idea…
Magical Fire Crow
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