Miami, USA – Cuban musicians Ibrahim Ferrer, Chucho Valdes and Cuban group Los Van Van, three nominees for the September 3rd Latin Grammy Award show,…
State Department Insists Time Ran Out for Latin Grammy Nominees
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Garma Festival of Aboriginal Australian Traditional Culture
Australia – The Garma Festival of Traditional Culture will take place August 19-23, 2003. The festival is held at Gulkula, 40 kilometers outside of the…
Between Rumba and Flamenco with los Muñequitos and Camerata
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cubana – A review of the complete list of albums nominated for the 2003 Latin Grammy Awards shows the presence…
World Music Charts Europe – August 2003
Berlin, Germany – The top ten of 180 nominated world music records. 1 MARTINA Last month:1 Africando …
Rare Gift Goes to Storage
Paris, France – Recently, the Musée de la Musique in Paris received a rare gift – Django Reinhardt’s last Selmer guitar – and promptly relegated…
Call for Applications! Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX)
Los Angeles, USA – The Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX) is an international artists residency program that promotes cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary exploration; develops rigorous…
Montreal, A City Ripe for World Music
“Our mix-and-match population makes Montreal a hospitable place for musicians of all kinds“, says the Paris-born New Yawk Montrealer who books multicultural shows for the…
Zimbabwe Group Black Umfolosi Denied Entry in Israel
East Jerusalem – Sunday’s performance, 27th of July 2003, by the internationally renowned Zimbabwe group Black Umfolosi was cancelled. Black Umfolosi could not take part…
Nominees For The Bollywood Music Awards Chosen
New York, USA – Over the past weeks the jury for the U.S. based Bollywood Music Awards have cast their ballots for the best five…
Austrian-Palestinian Musician Deported by Israeli Authorities
East Jerusalem – Artist Marwan Abado, an Austrian National of Palestinian origin, was detained immediately upon his arrival into Tel Aviv airport on Sunday 20th…