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Category: Artist Profiles

Radio Tarifa - Photo by Javier Salas. Black and white photo of the trio.
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Artist Profiles: Radio Tarifa

Angel Romero November 7, 2017 1 Comment Radio TarifaSpainSpanish music

(headline image: Radio Tarifa – Photo by Javier Salas) Throughout the southern coast of Spain, one can easily listen to popular North African music by…

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Artist Profiles: Rachel Hair

Angel Romero November 7, 2017 No Comments clarsachharpRachel HairScotlandScottish music

Rachel Hair is one of one of Scotland’s finest players of the clarsach, the Scottish harp. Originally from the Highland village of Ullapool, Rachel was…

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Artist Profiles: R.L. Burnside

Angel Romero November 7, 2017 No Comments bluesR.L. BurnsideUnited States of America

R.L. Burnside was born in Harmontown (Lafayette County) near Oxford Mississippi in November 21, 1926. He moved around the Holly Springs and Independence area making…

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Artist Profiles: Poncho Sanchez

Angel Romero November 7, 2017 No Comments congasLatin jazzPoncho SanchezUnited States of America

Poncho Sanchez was born in Laredo, Texas. He was the youngest of 11 children. Poncho grew up in Norwalk, California and remembers hearing Afro-Cuban music…

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Artist Profiles: Pinetop Perkins

Angel Romero November 5, 2017 No Comments bluesPinetop PerkinsUnited States of America

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Recipient (2005) Pinetop Perkins was one of the last great Mississippi bluesmen still performing in the 21st century. He made a living…

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Artist Profiles: Phong Nguyen

Angel Romero November 5, 2017 No Comments Phong NguyenVietnamVietnamese music

Phong Nguyen is one of the foremost exponents of Vietnamese music in the West and a recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship, the United States’…

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Artist Profiles: Phil Wiggins

Angel Romero November 5, 2017 No Comments bluesCephas and WigginsharmonicaPhil WigginsUnited States of America

Phil Wiggins was born in Washington D.C. in 1954. He began his musical career with some of Washington’s leading blues artists, including Archie Edwards and…

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Artist Profiles: Phil Cunningham

Angel Romero November 5, 2017 No Comments accordionCeltic musicPhil CunninghamScotlandScottish music

Accordionist Phil Cunningham was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1960. His musical career began with accordion lessons at the age of three and violin a…

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Artist Profiles: Peter Ulrich

Angel Romero November 4, 2017 No Comments Peter UlrichUnited Kingdom

Peter Ulrich was perhaps best known for his long-time collaboration with Dead Can Dance, the creative band of the 1980s that explored new frontiers of…

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Artist Profiles: Peter Puma Hedlund

Angel Romero November 4, 2017 No Comments nyckelharpaPeter Puma HedlundSwedenSwedish music

Peter Puma Hedlund is one of leading exponents of the nyckelharpa in the world today. A composer and one of the main forces in the…

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