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).…
Alluring Rokia
[image1_left]Rokia Traoré Tchamantché (Nonesuch Records, 2009) Singer, songwriter and musician Rokia Traoré has followed up her critically-acclaimed CD Bowmboï with the evocatively rich Tchamantché out…
Tracing the Banjo’s Roots
Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko Africa to Appalachia (Jayme Stone, 2008) A wonderful string music cultivation, combining the rolling earthy African roots music of Malian…
Music of the Sephardic Diaspora with Jordi Savall at Alice Tully Hall in New York
Music of the Sephardic Diaspora will be the focus of a concert in the new Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on Sunday, February 22nd…
Buckwheat Zydeco Performs in a Wisconsin Memorial Union Great Hall Dance Party to Celebrate Mardi Gras
Playing piano since age 9, Buckwheat Zydeco rose to fame in 1984 with "Zydeco Boogaloo," one of the genre’s signature songs. He will be performing…
Kodo Will Bring Japan’s Spectacular Taiko Drums to 29 Cities across North America
Japanese taiko group Kodo will perform in 29 North American cities this January, February, and March on their One Earth Tour. Kodo are the…
Afrobrazil Documentary Comes to Harlem
Quilombo Films announces the first Uptown screening of “Quilombo Country,” the award-winning feature documentary about Brazilian villages founded by escaped and rebel slaves, at the…
Inspired by Spirits
Manze Dayila Solé (As Is Entertainment, 2008), Haitian singer Manze Dayila intertwines her Haitian musical roots with African and pan-African diaspora sounds. Her first CD…
Reelroad Gets Around
Reelroad Гуляю, Гуляю – I Get Around (2007) There’s nothing like a little light-hearted folk music to liven up the cold, dark days of winter,…
Benefit Concert in Honor of Blues Musician Sean Costello
Atlanta (Georgia), USA – The Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research will hold its first benefit concert Sunday, March 1, 2009 at the North…
Yacub Addy’s Odadaa! Appeared in "Celebration of America" at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
Ghanaian drum master Yacub Addy and his exceptional percussion and vocal ensemble Odadaa! appeared Monday 1/19/09 at the Eisenhower Theater at The Kennedy Center in…