Admired Cuban Musician Eliades Ochoa Recording New Album in Santiago de Cuba
Famed guitarist and songwriter Eliades Ochoa will recreate the songs he performed 40 years ago with the Cuarteto Patria in a new album currently being…
Irish Songwriter Brendan Loughrey Releases Acoustic Album
Irish native Brendan Loughrey has released To Those Who Fell, an album that features some of the most poignant, significant songs of Ireland’s unrelenting struggle…
Balkan Sounds, Taiko Drumming and Portuguese Musical Explorers Highlights of Day 1 at Penang World Music Festival
Day one of the Penang World Music Festival on Saturday, 30th March 2013 got started with the daily press conference at the media center, located…
The Sounds of Brazil and Mali to Meet in London with A Curva Da Cintura
Mali’s kora master Toumani Diabaté, Brazlian musicians Arnaldo Antunes & Edgard Scandurra and Family Atlantica are set to perform on Friday 12 April 2013 at…
“Play Like A Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan ” Film Screening in Philadelphia
The Ragasamay Festival in Philadelphia will present the screening of “Play Like A Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan” on Wednesday, April 3…
The Raga Samay Festival to Present 24 hours of Indian Classical Music in Philadelphia
The Raga Samay Festival will present the first 24-hour concert of Hindustani (North Indian) classical music to take place in the Western Hemisphere in decades.…
Penang World Music Festival 2013 Opens at the Khoo Kongsi
The official opening of the Penang World Music Festival took place on March 29, 2013 at the historical Khoo Kongsi. Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi,…
Steeped in Absolute Loveliness
Ludovico Einaudi In a Time Lapse (Ponderosa Music & Art, 2013) I’m going to stray off the path of the usual for World Music Central…
Guitarist Amir John Haddad presents Music Video “Punta y Tacón”
Flamenco guitarist and world music multi-instrumentalist Amir John Haddad has a new music video titled “Punta y Tacón”. The piece is part of his new…
Indian Classical Music Festival “A Tribute to Pandit Ravi Shankar” in New York City
HarmoNYom has teamed up with Rubin Museum of Art to present an exceptional Indian Classical Music Festival in New York City during April 5-7, 2013.…