Tombak In The Spotlight On Between Hands
Kaveh Mahmudiyan — Between Hands (Global Sonics, 2025) Kaveh Mahmudiyan’s first solo album, Between Hands presents his own compositions with the tombak (Persian goblet-shaped drum).…
Reggae Pioneers The Wailers to Perform at Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival this Sunday, October 7, 2012
Reggae legends The Wailers are set to perform this Sunday, October 7th, 2012 at the 9th Annual Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music &…
The Feel Of A Brooklyn Dance Party
Analog Players Society Hurricane Season In Brooklyn (Studio Brooklyn, 2012) I’m really encouraged by the new wave of musicians coming out of New York City…
Mandolin Virtuoso Chris Thile Named 2012 MacArthur Fellow
Mandolin maestro, singer, and composer Chris Thile, has been named a MacArthur Fellow. Thile was among the 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2012, selected by…
Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots 2012 to Bring Top American Roots and World Music Acts to Pittsboro in North Carolina
The 9th Annual Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance begins this Thursday, October 4th and runs through Sunday, the 7th. The festival…
Cinema El Mundo
Lo’Jo – Cinema El Mundo (World Village, 2012) Lo’Jo’s Cinema El Mundo is in need of an elegant chaise lounge so that she may gaze…
Niyaz
Niyaz Niyaz (Six Degrees/SaReGaMa) Niyaz—Persian and Urdu for yearning—consists of three musicians: deejay and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and dulcimer player Azam Ali, and Loga…
Hispanic Heritage Month, Focus on Colombia
World Music Central‘s celebration of Hispanic Heritage month goes on with the music of Colombia, which is well respected throughout the world. The South American…
Ethiopia Aplenty
The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia 2nd Edition (World Music Network, 2012) Krar Collective – Ethiopia Super Krar (Riverboat Records/World Music Network, 2012)…
Eminent Musician and Musicologist Prof. T R Subramaniam to inaugurate the Guruguha Music Festival
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts is organizing a grand Guruguha Music Festival with an inaugural talk on the eminent Carnatic music composer Muthuswami Dikshitar…
Musicians for Mali Grassroots Benefit Concert Last Saturday in New York Sold Out
Afropop’s Sean Barlow reports that the Musicians for Mali grassroots benefit concert last Saturday, September 22, in New York city was sold out. “It was…