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,…
Foot-Stompin’ Folk to Bring the Best of British folk Music to London
Foot-Stompin’ Folk is a night dedicated to some of the best acts in British folk music. Three award-winning acts from various parts of the UK…
Lord of the Trance
Rango’s debut album, Bride Of Zar, took everyone by surprise when it was released last year, introducing trance-inducing music from Sudanese mystic healing ceremonies and…
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music 2011. Part I: The World’s Spiritual Glories in the Medina
“What is important, and indeed urgent, is to unlock our systems of thinking, our mental habits and automatic responses, to allow us to become more…