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  Southeast Morocco’s last oasis, M’hamid El Ghizlane, was the unlikely setting for the Taragalte Festival between January 23-25. Despite the challenges of access and…

View More Morocco’s desert festival in Taragalte bridges the Sahara gap

  It is near the remote oasis of M’hamid El Ghizlane that the Taragalte festival opens this evening January 23. Once the desert gateway from…

View More Curtain Raiser Taragalte Festival

The lights in the edit suite are dimmed, and extra chairs brought in to accommodate client and staffers in the big screening room on the…

View More Super Spot XLIX: Why World Music Works

Dedicated to the memory and the spirit of the great Tunisian Sufi poet and scholar, Si Abdelwahab Meddeb, who cherished and admired the works of…

View More Along the Original Silk Road, Konya’s Mystic Music Festival

  So, you’ve got your list and your checking it twice – okay, so it’s not really a list but a crumpled mess of coffee…

View More 2014 Holiday Music Options

World of Bluegrass 2014 is taking place this week in Raleigh, North Carolina. The event runs from September 30 through October 4 and is organized…

View More World of Bluegrass 2014 – Momentum Awards and Bluegrass Marketplace

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…

View More Portals to Illumination and Transformation, Part I: The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music

  The annual Rainforest World Music Festival in Kuching, Sarawak (Malaysia), regarded as one of the Top 25 world music festivals on the planet, is…

View More World music bands address the importance of heritage, messages and innovation

  From May 8 to 10 this year, Bilbao (Basque Country – Spain) hosted the first Exib Music event. Exib Music is a new European…

View More Exib Music 2014 meeting point between the professionals and artists of Latin America and the European music industry