After a 30-year musical career in Burkina Faso, Manding singer Victor Démé finally releases his self-titled first album Victor Deme in June on Harmonia Mundi.…
View More Burkinan Victor Démé Releases Solo Album in EuropeAuthor: World Music Central News Room
Tekameli Releases Escolteu in the UK
From Perpignan in the south of France, Tekameli’s founding members Jean Soler, Salomon Espinas and Julio Bermudez, are also Roma musicians playing Rumba, Catalana and…
View More Tekameli Releases Escolteu in the UKSudanese Music & Dance Festival 2008 Comes to Detroit and Chicago
This summer, an unprecedented gathering of musicians from the East African nation of Sudan will come together in Chicago & Detroit to accomplish something politicians,…
View More Sudanese Music & Dance Festival 2008 Comes to Detroit and ChicagoHomay and The Mastan Group Take On A Forbidden Journey To Bring The Message Of Truth And Unity From Iran
Los Angeles (California), USA – Homay and The Mastan Group ensemble will perform for the first time outside of Iran for their large fan base…
View More Homay and The Mastan Group Take On A Forbidden Journey To Bring The Message Of Truth And Unity From IranSergio Mendes Goes on Tour in June 2008 to promote New Album Encanto
Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes will be touring the west Coast of the United States to promote his new recording, Encanto. Mendes spins his remarkable magic…
View More Sergio Mendes Goes on Tour in June 2008 to promote New Album EncantoDiaspora London Music Village Festival Returns to Hyde Park in 2008
The summer Music Village – Europe’s longest-running festival of world cultures – makes an immediate return to London’s Hyde Park Saturday 12 & Sunday 13…
View More Diaspora London Music Village Festival Returns to Hyde Park in 200821st Century Bossa Sensation Sabrina Malheiros Releases New Morning
Following her best-selling debut album ‘Equilibria‘, singer-songwriter Sabrina Malheiros returns with New Morning (Far Out FARO131CD, 2008), an album of 21st century bossa – soul…
View More 21st Century Bossa Sensation Sabrina Malheiros Releases New MorningSummerworld Brings World Music to Toronto in July 2008
Toronto, Canada – The Summerworld music series will take place from July 8 to 18. Continuing the tradition of discovery, Summerworld blazes a trail once…
View More Summerworld Brings World Music to Toronto in July 2008Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Make West coast Debut at Grand Performances’ California Plaza
The youngest son of Nigerian world music icon Fela Kuti will be performing at Grand Performances’ California Plaza Friday, June 20 at 8 pm. Seun…
View More Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Make West coast Debut at Grand Performances’ California PlazaFourth Annual Afrofunk Festival Returns to San Francisco in 2008
San Francisco (California), USA – Afrobeat is dense, funky, intricately-layered, groove-heavy music with an intrinsic message – delivered through polyrhythmic beats, the sweat of the…
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