The Førde Folk Music Festival will be held next week, July 8-11 in Norway. Førde is one of the leading world music festivals in Europe…
World Music Profiles: Hilde Bjørkum, Director of the Førde Folk Music Festival
Category: Interviews
Interview with Muzsikas, Hungary’s Renowned Folk Music Group
In July of 2009, I had the opportunity to interview Dániel Hamar, bassist, vocalist, gardon player and co-founder of the legendary Hungarian group Muzsikas. The…
African Music Icon Baaba Maal Talks About his New Album Television
World Music Central’s TJ Nelson interviewed Senegalese music star Baaba Maal about his multi-lingual album titled “Television.” About the release of your latest CD Television,…
Dan Zacks Talks About the Second Volume of Si Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba
The Cuban music compilation Si Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Vol. 2 was released recently on Waxing Deep Records. To find out…
Lay Down Your Arms; Pick up Guitars–Conversation with Playing for Change filmmaker Jonathan Walls
The question remains, will music transform the world and bring lasting peace? Grammy award-winning producer/recording engineer Mark Johnson’s and filmmaker Jonathan Walls’ “Playing for Change”…
The Berber Wave of Agadir
One of the highlights of this year’s Rainforest World Music Festival was the scorching performance by Moroccan Amazigh band Oudaden. World Music Central’s Angel…
Sounds of the Zawoses
World Music Central’s Angel Romero had the opportunity to briefly interview Danford Zawose of Tanzania’s renowned Zawose Family, shortly after his press conference in…
Claudia Acuña, When Jazz Freedom Meets Chilean Passion
Chilean vocalist Claudia Acuña has a new recording titled En Este Momento (At This Moment) on Marsalis Music. The 10 song collection was produced by…
From the Heart of the African Bush Conversation with Samite Mulondo
Samite will be appearing at 7:30 p.m., April 24 at McIntyre Hall, (Skagit Valley Community College campus), Mount Vernon, Washington. For more information on this…
The Samba Effect–Conversation with Brazilian Musician Jovino Santos Neto
I discovered the healing effects of Brazilian music, samba in particular back in the early 1990s when I began listening to Astrud Gilberto classics. Even…