The Third Annual WOMEX Top Label Award Goes to Cumbancha
The results are in and this year’s WOMEX top world music label is United States-based Cumbancha. They will be awarded the customary WOMEX Top Label…
Bluegrass Band Yonder Mountain String Band and Stevie Wonder at Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech
Yonder Mountain String Band, hailing from Nederland, Colorado (forty miles northwest of Denver), will be performing at this year’s Democratic National Convention held on Denver…
Ganapathy Pappa Moriya! Happy Concluding Concert of the Mayur Vihar (Delhi) Festival
The five day Music festival at the Subha Sidhi Vinayaka Mandhir is slotted to have the grand finale on the 2nd of September 2008 (Tuesday)…
Conway Twitty: Greatest Hits Live on DVD
A new DVD, Greatest Hits Live, captures the experience of a live performance by Conway Twitty. Throughout his career transformation from rock ’n’ roll teen…
The Rough Guide To Turkish Café
The Rough Guide to Turkish Café (RGNET1215CD) demonstrates that Turkish music is much more than Whirling Dervishes and efforts in the Eurovision song contest. It…
Somalian Hip Hop Artist K’Naan Will Perform at Earthdance 2008
Somalian Hip Hop artist K’Naan will be sharing his powerful message of global unity at Earthdance 2008. With his unique style, K’Naan brings an enormous…
Nominations for the 10th Annual Native American Music Awards Announced
Nominations for the 10th Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) were announced this week by The Native American Music Association & Awards, reflecting the combined…
Umalali – Live in Concert at WorldBeat Center in San Diego
WorldBeat Cultural Center in San Diego (California) pays homage to Andy Palacio’s activist legacy with performances by Umalali (Garifuna for voice) which adds four powerful…
City of Chicago Celebrates in 2008 the 10th Anniversary of World Music Festival: Chicago
Chicago is gearing up to showcase the best of today’s international music at the 10th Annual World Music Festival: Chicago 2008. This year the festival…
Canadian-Armenian Musician Levon Ichkhanian on Olympic Music Tour in China
Multi-instrumentalist/producer Levon Ichkhanian is currently in Beijing to participate in a historic event uniting Western and Eastern stars with artits living with disabilities on the…