Béla Fleck and the Flecktones The Holiday Tour featuring Alash in Seattle
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley will present the original Grammy-Winning Béla Fleck & the Flecktones on December 9 – 12, 2010. Band…
Exotica Recreators Waitiki will Close 2010 with a Series of Concerts
Champions of exotica Waitiki will celebrate the year’s end at Don the Beachcomber, the restaurant haven of the great mixologist Donn Beach and all things…
Berklee Releases Music Industry Salaries Study
Berklee’s Career Development Center has created a comprehensive resource for the music industry titled Salary Ranges for U.S. Music Positions in Performance, Writing, Business, Audio…
More Lightness Comes to Light
Tabu Ley Rochereau The Voice of Lightness Vol. 2: Congo Classics 1977-1993 (Sterns Africa STCD 3056-57, 2010) Only once did I get to see Tabu…
San Francisco’s Stairwell Sisters to celebrate 10th Anniversary Show
On December 12, 2010, San Francisco’s the Stairwell Sisters will be celebrating their 10-year anniversary to the day with a performance at the Freight &…
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal to Release Chamber Music
Chamber Music (Six Degrees Records) is a collaboration between Ballaké Sissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French…
Yasmin Levy to Perform at Barbican Hall in 2011
Yasmin Levy will perform Wednesday, April 6th of 2011 in London. The star singer returns to London with her electrifying Ladino songs and smoldering flamenco,…
fRoots Announces the Winners of World Music and Roots Albums Of The Year
The winners of the 25th annual fRoots Critics Poll Albums Of The Year were exclusively announced last night on BBC Radio 3’s World On 3.…
Nice But Slim Pickings
The pickPocket ensemble Memory (the pickPocket Ensemble, 2010) Their hands commit no acts of larceny in other people’s trousers. Rather, the pickPocket ensemble (punctuation theirs),…
Omara Portuondo Celebrates the Tropicana
Omara Portuondo – Fiesta Cubana (EuroArts 2058028, 2010) Fiesta Cubana is a great opportunity to watch Omara Portuondo, one of the legendary voices of Cuba,…