Belgian Festival Couleur Café Announces First Names for 2013 Edition
Renowned Belgian festival Couleur Café announced the first 7 names of artists scheduled to perform this year. Couleur Café takes place June 28-30 of 2013.…
Exciting Celtic Debut by The Willis Clan
The Willis Clan Chapter One – Roots (2012) Roots is an engaging Irish music album by The Willis Clan, a family of young talented musicians,…
Songs of the Galician Women
Various Artists Cantigas de Mulleres (Fol Musica, 2012) This compilation presents some of the best female talent in the Galician music scene. Galicia is a…
Ingenious Way of Dramatizing Nature
Bruno Coulais Microcosmos (Varese Vintage Records, 2013) Let me start off by saying the original motion picture soundtrack Microcosmos is a classical recording. Composed and…
Cuban Jazz Musician Bobby Carcassés Wins 2012 National Music Award
Cuban singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Roberto (Bobby) Carcassés received Cuba’s 2012 National Music Award for his lifetime work. The jury, presided over by Digna Guerra…
Blues Man Magic Slim Dies
The blues guitarist and singer known as Magic Slim died Thursday, February 21, 2013 at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hospital. The Mississippi blues man had been…
Dynamic Creole Choir of Cuba
The Creole Choir of Cuba Santiman (Real World Records, 2013) Following up on their debut recording Tande-La on the Real World Records label, The Creole…
Ever Rougher
World Music Network’s prolific Rough Guide series continues to put out so many titles that it’s becoming hard to remember which ones are followups to…
Review of the 15th Fira Mediterrània de Manresa
The “Fira Mediterrània – Factoría d’Arrel” took place November 8-11 of 2012 in the Catalan city of Manresa. As its program indicates, this is a…
World Music Conference WOMEX 2013 Now Accepting Showcase Applications
International world music conference WOMEX, is calling all world music artists and DJs to submit their applications to perform at the WOMEX 2013 Showcase Festival.…