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World of Bluegrass 2014 – Momentum Awards and Bluegrass Marketplace
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Portals to Illumination and Transformation, Part I: The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
Attar’s hoopoe calls upon the soul-birds to seek in mastery of their passions for the Pearl that never dies, the precious jewel of spiritual fulfillment…
World music bands address the importance of heritage, messages and innovation
The annual Rainforest World Music Festival in Kuching, Sarawak (Malaysia), regarded as one of the Top 25 world music festivals on the planet, is…
Exib Music 2014 meeting point between the professionals and artists of Latin America and the European music industry
From May 8 to 10 this year, Bilbao (Basque Country – Spain) hosted the first Exib Music event. Exib Music is a new European…
Penang World Music Festival 2014, Day Two: European and Latin American Climax!
Day One of the Penang World Music Festival 2014 featured a good spread of international artistes, with African and Asian bands stealing the limelight…
The new Chinese cultural revolution
They might not be the Central Politburo’s pin-up boys, but a brace of charismatic Beijing-based bands from far-flung regions of China that blend contrasting ethnic…
Impressions of Babel Med Music 2014
The tenth edition of Babel Med Music Forum – Forum des Musiques du Monde was held in the French city of Marseilles from March 20…
Temple Bar Tradfest 2014
A new edition of Temple Bar TradFest was held in Dublin (Ireland) from 22 to 26 January, 2014. Temple Bar TradFest is one of the…
The flagbearers of traditional Irish folk
In the pantheon of Irish folk music, Lúnasa and Altan rank among the proverbial High Kings of Tara, adjacent to such immortal acts as The…
Against All Odds, Pride of Segou, Pride of Mali: The Festival on the Niger River
The Festival on the Niger River, 10th Anniversary Edition Celebration Each evening, high in the sky, a thin silver cup-shaped new moon seemed to smile…