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).…
Third Time is the Sweetest
Nigeria 70 – Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju from 1970s Lagos (Strut Records STRUT079CD, 2011) The third volume in Strut Records’ Nigeria 70 series…
Madison World Music Festival 2001
Madison World Music Festival festival will be held September 14-17, 2011 at the Memorial Union and the Willy Street Fair in Madison, Wisconsin (USA). All…
Zydeco Good Times
C.J. Chenier Can’t Sit Down (World Village 468109, 2011) Zydeco accordion master C.J. Chenier is back with with an album titled Can’t Sit Down. Although…
Manu Chao to Perform Free Concert in Phoenix to Protest Anti-Immigrant Policies
Global music sensation Manu Chao announced that he will be performing a free “Alto Arizona” concert in collaboration with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network…
¡Globalquerque! 2011 New Mexico’s 7th Annual Celebration of World Music & Culture
¡Globalquerque! 2011, the great world music festival in the American southwest, will be held September 16 and 17 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in…
Common Threads
Nation Beat Growing Stone (Barbès Records, 2011) Nation Beat is a band formed by musicians from the United states and Brazil. Their sound is a…
Banjo Master Noam Pikelny to Release Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail
The second album by banjo player Noam Pikelny is titled Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail. It is scheduled for release on Tuesday, October…
The Ultimate Soca Gold Collection Boxed Set
The Soca Gold series has been one of the best-selling annual compilations for the hottest soca music coming out of The Caribbean for over a…
Natacha Atlas Releases Limited Edition Mounqaliba Remix Album
After two highly acclaimed string driven, predominantly acoustic projects, Natacha Atlas returns to the global dance-floor with Mounqaliba Rising – Remixes. The CD Version is…
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music 2011. Part II. More Musical Encounters
One of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music’s great strengths, apart from the larger, spectacular concerts in the Bab Makina and the Bab Boujloud,…