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The summer festival season offers fabulous opportunities for international travelers. World Music Central uncovers some of the most interesting folk and world music festivals across…

For one weekend next month, the far north Queensland tropics in Australia will supersede the Hawaiian islands as the center of the ukulele universe. From…

Nordic summers are tantalizingly short and the winters interminably long and icy, so the climate is generally conducive to indoor pursuits such as music study.…

Francisco Aguabella was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1925. He was an Afro-Cuban master drummer. Francisco played with different sets of drums from Cuba, from…

Any conversation concerning the Pogues will inexorably gravitate towards one Shane MacGowan, the tomb-toothed enfant terrible of Irish (and English) folk-rock. The band’s frontman is…

We are about to leap headlong with wild abandon and unrepressed joy into the green. St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and there’s…

“What always impresses me is the receptivity that Brazilian music has abroad” – Paula Morelenbaum The Bossarenova Trio comprises of Paula Morelenbaum (vocals), Joo Kraus…

January 28, Bangalore Kailash Kher, charismatic singer in the Sufi-rock style, proved yet again that he is right at the cutting edge of fusion music…

APAP’s 55th Annual Conference: New York’s cosmopolitan nature becomes charged with fresh new energies, both local and global, each January, as more than 3,400 national…