Stevie Culture To Headline Island Festival, Kalamazoo June 20, 2008
San Francisco (California), USA – Since its inception, Island Festival in Kalamazoo has grown in numbers and stature. The work begins during the frigid Michigan…
View More Stevie Culture To Headline Island Festival, Kalamazoo June 20, 2008Montreal welcomes the Festival International Nuits D’Afrique- July 8-20 2008
The Festival International Nuits D’Afrique is back this summer for its 22nd year in Canada’s greatest cultural mecca from July 8-20,2008. For two weeks, the…
View More Montreal welcomes the Festival International Nuits D’Afrique- July 8-20 2008Variations on a Cuban Theme
Yusa Haiku (Tumi Music TUMI 143, 2008) I had to do a bit of memory jogging and digging through my collection when I received this…
View More Variations on a Cuban ThemeSergio Mendes Goes on Tour in June 2008 to promote New Album Encanto
Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes will be touring the west Coast of the United States to promote his new recording, Encanto. Mendes spins his remarkable magic…
View More Sergio Mendes Goes on Tour in June 2008 to promote New Album EncantoIn Gods We Trust
The Ipanemas Call of the Gods (Far Out Recordings FARO 127 CD, 2008) Like it or not, a band called the Ipanemas is bound to…
View More In Gods We TrustDiaspora London Music Village Festival Returns to Hyde Park in 2008
The summer Music Village – Europe’s longest-running festival of world cultures – makes an immediate return to London’s Hyde Park Saturday 12 & Sunday 13…
View More Diaspora London Music Village Festival Returns to Hyde Park in 200821st Century Bossa Sensation Sabrina Malheiros Releases New Morning
Following her best-selling debut album ‘Equilibria‘, singer-songwriter Sabrina Malheiros returns with New Morning (Far Out FARO131CD, 2008), an album of 21st century bossa – soul…
View More 21st Century Bossa Sensation Sabrina Malheiros Releases New MorningSummerworld Brings World Music to Toronto in July 2008
Toronto, Canada – The Summerworld music series will take place from July 8 to 18. Continuing the tradition of discovery, Summerworld blazes a trail once…
View More Summerworld Brings World Music to Toronto in July 2008Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Make West coast Debut at Grand Performances’ California Plaza
The youngest son of Nigerian world music icon Fela Kuti will be performing at Grand Performances’ California Plaza Friday, June 20 at 8 pm. Seun…
View More Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Make West coast Debut at Grand Performances’ California PlazaPowerFX Releases All Them Beats
Stockholm, Sweden– PowerFX, the leading online distributor of loops and samples, unveiled this week All Them Beats, a definitive beat resource boasting more than 430…
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