Sa Dingding, The Breakthrough Chinese Artist, Wins Major BBC World Music Award and is Nominated for Audience Award
London, UK – Singer/songwriter Sa Dingding is helping to keep the spotlight on her native China in this Olympic year by winning the prestigious BBC…
Festival International de Louisiane 2008 Headliners
Lafayette (Louisiana), USA – The 2008 Festival International de Louisiane will be host to many world-renowned musicians April 23-27. Kicking off Thursday night at Popeyes…
Toumani’s Mande Variations
Toumani Diabate The Mande Variations (Nonesuch, 2008) Son of Sidiki Diabate, one the most celebrated kora players , Toumani Diabate has blazed a career worthy…
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Pick Up Two Awards at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008
Last week, on 10 April 2008, at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2008 winners announcement ceremony held at London’s Dingwalls, Bassekou Kouyate…
Irrepressibly Charming
Rupa & The April Fishes Extraordinary Rendition (Cumbancha, 2008) The San Francisco-based Rupa & The April Fishes’ release of their debut recording Extraordinary Rendition on…
Billy Cobham Spectrum Band Will Perform at Jazz Alley in Seattle
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley presents Pan-American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader Billy Cobham for four nights April 24-27, with Brian Auger…
Partying and Hardships
Various Artists The Rough Guide to the Music of Hungarian Gypsies (World Music Network, 2008) As the interest in Gypsy (Roma) music increases, labels have…
Blues: Back to the Source, with Otis Taylor and Bassekou Kouyate at Barbican in London
London, UK – Two fascinating musical projects which explore the roots of the Blues from America to Africa as parf of Barbican’s Contemporary Music Programme…
Austin’s Powers
Grupo Fantasma – Comes Alive (Airesol Records ASCD007, 2006) Brownout – Homenaje (Freestyle Records FSRCD033, 2007) Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada – The Alchemist…
Reissue CDs Revisit Wildly Infectious Rhythms
On the eve of famed Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s upcoming 20-city tour this summer with guitarist Steve Kimock, bassist George Porter, Jr.,vocalist Jen Durkin…