Category: General News

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…

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(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cubana – A review of the complete list of albums nominated for the 2003 Latin Grammy Awards shows the presence…

View More Between Rumba and Flamenco with los Muñequitos and Camerata

Berlin, Germany – The top ten of 180 nominated world music records. 1    MARTINA            Last month:1     Africando …

View More World Music Charts Europe – August 2003     

Paris, France – Recently, the Musée de la Musique in Paris received a rare gift – Django Reinhardt’s last Selmer guitar – and promptly relegated…

View More Rare Gift Goes to Storage

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…

View More Call for Applications! Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX)

“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…

View More Montreal, A City Ripe for World Music

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…

View More Zimbabwe Group Black Umfolosi Denied Entry in Israel

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…

View More Nominees For The Bollywood Music Awards Chosen

East Jerusalem – Artist Marwan Abado, an Austrian National of Palestinian origin, was detained immediately upon his arrival into Tel Aviv airport on Sunday 20th…

View More Austrian-Palestinian Musician Deported by Israeli Authorities