Following an initiative started a few years ago, the Førde Folk Music Festival, with the support of various agencies in Norway, invited a delegation of…
Destination: Forde Folk Music Festival 2010 – Arrival to Bergen
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World Music for the Football Fan
As the 2010 Football World Cup approaches, World Music Central has collected a series of global songs that celebrate football (soccer), the world’s most popular…
SummerNights Roots Music Series 2010 at The Jewish Museum in Manhattan
The Jewish Museum’s popular SummerNights program returns, presenting live world music in a concert setting on three Thursdays in July. Each concert begins at 7:30…
Bruce Molsky & Ale Moller Show Review
If you’ve ever heard old-time music–not oldie music by the Splatter Sisters–but old Appalachian music, you probably came away from the experience forever marked. That…
Javier Limón Throws a Flamenco Party
By Brenda Pike Celebrated Spanish musician and producer Javier Limón came to Berklee in March to give a series of clinics for Berklee students.…
Mulatu Astatke Steps Ahead
Following his acclaimed collaboration on Strut with The Heliocentrics, the Father of Ethio jazz presents his brand new studio album, Mulatu Steps Ahead for 2010.…
Caribe Girls, Cuban Female Salsa
(Cubarte) Female salsa bands had a boost during the 1990’s with the Boom of Cuban Salsa, as it happened during the 1930’s due to…
Chartwell Dutiro at the Institute Of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts Theatre in England
Upbeat, entrancing and intoxicating Zimbabwean dance music. With more guitar licks than the Bhundu Boys and full drum kit, turn this music up loud and…
Music for St. Patrick’s Day 2010
To help you celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day on March 17, World Music Central has compiled a list of recent recordings that have a connection with…
Pat Metheny Talks About His Orchestrion Project
“This project represents a conceptual direction that merges an idea from the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the technologies of today to…