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Searching for the Roots of the Banjo, Canadian Musician Jayme Stone Talks About his Recent Trip to Mali
World Music Central presents the travelogue of Canadian banjo player Jayme Stone. He belongs to the eclectic banjo school led by Bela Fleck. Stone combines…
Champion Musicians Find New Style in Ancient Music
The fateful meeting last year of two widely known Celtic performers produced a frenzy of creative inspiration resulting in a colorful, exciting, and completely unique…
A Jazz Beat in Goa (From the archives-Jazz in Goa)
It was a satisfying and stunning day at the third edition of the Heritage Jazz Yatra at Gonsalves Mansion simply because of the quality of…
Teaching Community Building Through African Drumming
Munpurugu, Munpurugu, Munpurugu Introduction: Do the above words sound strange to you? Not to students of Applied Music in a high school in New York…
A Universal Presentation of Palestinian Soul
I was one of many stunned members of the audience who recently attended a concert, organized by the British Council, by Palestinian singer Reem Kelani…
Peter Cole…. a Possibility of Liberian Music
By Aaron B. Weah In this contemporary time music have come to define culture and perhaps even the sociology of a people. More so, it…
The Nightingale glides again
Auckland, New Zealand – Two decades of controlled, disciplined and immensely alluring onstage performances and years later The Netherlands-based Tibetan classical/opera singer, song writer, poet…
Jazz in Goa reaches out to the community!
Goa, India – There are no bounds to large heartedness, except a lack of imagination, and Armando Gonsalves of Heritage Jazz is a man brimming…
Saturday Nights at Gonsalves Mansion…..by Les Menezes
Saturday night, Gonsalves Mansion, Campal, a hundred plus keen Jazz lovers seated in a long Portuguese-style veranda fronting the home. Fairy tale lights, Hi-tech sound…