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    Dida Pelled Covers Blues Classics with Jazz Guitar and Soulful Vocals

    Dida Pelled – I Wish You Would (La Reserve, 2026) Brooklyn guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Dida Pelled will release I Wish You Would on May…

    Iliana Cabrera April 25, 2026 No Comments
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    Sky Smeed Turns The Rock House Into a Happy and Welcoming Home on New Live Album

    Sky Smeed – Live at the Rock House (2026) Sky Smeed has released his 10th album, Live at the Rock House, a live recording captured…

    Ryan Emmert April 24, 2026 No Comments
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  • Album reviews

    Guzheng Master Bei Bei Charms with Innovative Two Moons Album

    Bei Bei – Two Moons (Bei Bei Time Productions, 2026) Chinese guzheng star Bei Bei has a new album titled Two Moons, a 2026 collaborative…

    Angel Romero April 23, 2026 No Comments
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    Home Grown Finally Gets Its Moment After A COVID-19 Pause

    Matt Tighe and Tad Sargent – Home Grown (2025) Fiddler Matt Tighe and multi-instrumentalist Tad Sargent released Home Grown nearly five years after the project…

    Tyler Bennet April 22, 2026 No Comments
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  • Album reviews

    Songs Carried Across Salt Water: Memory, Exile, And The Quiet Force Of Displaced Dreams

    Michalis Kouloumis — Displaced Dreams (Seyir Muzik, 2025) In Displaced Dreams, Michalis Kouloumis articulates exile as a lived, trembling presence. The album is a precious…

    Tyler Bennet April 20, 2026 No Comments
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Featured News

  • Gnoss - Photo by Elly Lucas. Band photo.
    Music videos

    Gnoss Share Lively New Single “Emily”

    World Music Central News Room April 25, 2026 No Comments
  • Staran black and wgite band photo
    Music videos

    Staran Join Forces With Julie Fowlis on New Single “Duan Callaig”

    World Music Central News Room April 23, 2026 No Comments
  • Fatoumata Diawara — Photo by Marcello Perego. Fatoumaa wearing a blue dress and a traditonal red headdress.
    Music videos

    Fatoumata Diawara Celebrates Freedom on New Single, “Fala”

    World Music Central News Room April 22, 2026 No Comments
  • Backline Reaping the Blues cover artwork. A photo of an old 20th century tractor in a farm field.
    Music videos

    Backline Unveils New Single “Reaping the Blues”

    World Music Central News Room April 20, 2026 No Comments
  • Deanie Richardson & Kimber Ludiker Rutlands Reel cover artwork. A wooden deck and an out of focus reddish background.
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    Deanie Richardson And Kimber Ludiker Honor Howdy Forrester On “Rutland’s Reel”

    World Music Central News Room April 19, 2026 No Comments
  • Blanca Paloma - Sentaita en la escalera (Portada) cover artwork. Blanca appears as a very small woman wearing a blue outfit sitting on a giant human hand.
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    Blanca Paloma Previews Debut Album With Sentaíta en la escalera

    World Music Central News Room April 18, 2026 No Comments

New CDs and digital releases

Ud Master Rabih Abou-Khalil Releases Journey To The Centre Of An Egg

Angel Romero March 18, 2006

Montreal, Canada – Lebanese-born ud master Rabih Abou-Khalil has a new album out, Journey To The Centre Of An Egg, on Justin-Time/Enja, his 11th Enja…

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Album reviews

Chants Encounter

Tom Orr March 18, 2006

Vocal Baobab Yoruba Dream: Afro-Cuban Chants (ARC Music EUCD 1965, 2005) The Yoruba pantheon of deities forming the basis of the Santeria religion have their…

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The Lark in the Morning, folk songs and dance from the Irish countryside, cover artwork. A collage of various patterns.
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Songs of the Lark: Folk Sounds from the Past

Patricia Herlevi March 17, 2006 3 Comments field recordingsIrish balladsIrish folk musicIrish musicworld music

The Lark in the Morning (field recording, 1955), folk songs and dance from the Irish countryside (Tradition Records) The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1959),…

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Legendary Recordings from Spanish National Radio Archives

Angel Romero March 17, 2006

Various Artists – Nuestro Flamenco, Vol. 1 (RTVE Música, 2004) Antonio Mairena – Actuaciones históricas (RTVE Música, 2005) Spanish National Radio (RNE) and Spanish National…

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Exploring the New Sounds of Brazil

Angel Romero March 16, 2006

Brazil is a country with an incredibly rich variety of music and World Music Central has received a large number of new CDs from the…

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African Convergence

Tom Orr March 16, 2006

Nuru Kane Sigil (Riverboat Records/World Music Network TUGCD 1041, 2006) This dynamic disc was recorded in a Scottish country cottage and a Paris studio, but…

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General News

Máilbmi – Indigenous Music on Swedish Radio

World Music Central News Room March 15, 2006

This spring there will be a new music show at Swedish National Radio on Channel P2. The name of the new show is Máilbmi (World…

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Album reviews

Land of Fiddlers

Angel Romero March 15, 2006 fiddleFriggScandinavian musicSwapVäsen

  Scandinavia is a land of excellent fiddlers. In the past months, a new batch of recordings featuring top folk violinists from the Nordic countries…

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Events

Hugh Masekela Added to Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival Line-up

World Music Central News Room March 14, 2006

Silk Hope (North Carolina), USA – The Spring Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance has announced the addition of Hugh Masekela to the…

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New Releases

Niyaz Remixed Digital EP

World Music Central News Room March 13, 2006

San Francisco (California), USA – On a new Remixed EP that is available exclusively in digital format, the Persian electronic music by Six Degrees Records’…

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  • Sky Smeed Turns The Rock House Into a Happy and Welcoming Home on New Live Album
  • Flamenco Christmas Jerez-Style to Return to Madrid in 2026
  • Staran Join Forces With Julie Fowlis on New Single “Duan Callaig”
  • Edinburgh Tradfest to Celebrate the traditional music of Scotland in May 2026
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