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).…
Chants From The Kingdom Of Tonga
The Kingdom of Tonga has been in the news lately because of the coronation of the new king, which took place at the end of…
Paradise Lost Namgyal Lhamo’s Sensational Video
Tibetan singer Namgyal Lhamo’s latest music video ‘Chang Yare’-Paradise Lost is spellbinding. If you thought that Tibetan music was just about ethereal loops that blended…
Polynesian Sensation Te Vaka Will Perform at Beijing Olympics
Polynesian band Te Vaka will head to China on August 6th to represent the South Pacific with five performances at the Olympic Games in Beijing…
Bound To Go: Illuminating Legacy of African American Folk Tradition
Bound to Go is a landmark collection of 35 songs from the African American folk tradition that includes spirituals, shout songs from the Sea Islands,…
WOMEX Won’t Stay in Sevilla
Sevilla’s daily newspaper Diario de Sevilla reported that the World Music Expo (WOMEX), will not be held in Sevilla after 2008. WOMEX organizers have offers…
Celebrating Gordon’s Musical Treasure
Various Artists A Celebration of the Music of Gordon Duncan, A National Treasure (Greentrax, 2008) In 2007 Scottish musicians got together to celebrate the music…
Tammy Wynette and and Marty Robbins Legendary Performances on DVD
Country music legends Tammy Wynette and Marty Robbins are the subjects of the next DVDs to be released via Shout! Factory and the Country Music…
WOMEX 2008 Educational Institution Award Goes to Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki
Berlin, Germany – WOMEX announced today the winner of the WOMEX Award for Professional Excellence: the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki,…
S’Albaida Wins Prestigious Folk Music Competition in Spain
S’Albaida won the IX Concurso Internacional de Folk Cuartu los Valles on July 25. This annual music competition held in Navelgas (northern Spain) is open…
Iberian Divas Dulce Pontes and Estrella Morente at World Expo Zaragoza 2008
Flamenco star Estrella Morente and Portuguese diva Dulce Pontes will perform at Expo 2008’s Anfiteatro 43 on August 3 at 11 p.m.. The show was…