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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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    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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  • Album reviews

    Lovely Bengali–Mexican Folk Fusion: Donde La Tierra Canta

    Koyel Basu – Donde La Tierra Canta | যেখানে মাটি গান গায় (Where The Earth Sings) (2026) British-Bengali independent artist Koyel Basu has recently released…

    Iliana Cabrera April 19, 2026 No Comments
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    Moussa T Offers Modern Tuareg Desert Blues on Tartite

    Moussa T — Tartite (Mixto Records, 2026) With Tartite, rising Tuareg musician Moussa T delivers familiar desert blues closely associated with Tuareg music. At the…

    Angel Romero April 17, 2026 No Comments
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  • Album reviews

    Rafael Carvalho Introduces the viola da terra on A Teia Da Viola

    Rafael Carvalho – A Teia da Viola (self-release, 2025) Rafael Carvalho’s A Teia Da Viola is a delightful 10-track self-released album that celebrates the beautiful…

    Iliana Cabrera April 14, 2026 No Comments
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Featured News

  • Fatoumata Diawara — Photo by Marcello Perego. Fatoumaa wearing a blue dress and a traditonal red headdress.
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    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.
    Music videos

    Blanca Paloma Previews Debut Album With Sentaíta en la escalera

    World Music Central News Room April 18, 2026 No Comments
  • Bryan Sutton and Kenny Smith - Three Star Hornpipe cover artwork. A sand colored image of leafless tree branches.
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    Bryan Sutton and Kenny Smith Reimagine “Three Star Hornpipe”

    World Music Central News Room April 17, 2026 No Comments
  • Purbayan Chatterjee & Mark Lettieri Soar cover artwork. An illustration of bird feathers.
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    Purbayan Chatterjee and Mark Lettieri Collaborate on New Single “Soar”

    World Music Central News Room April 16, 2026 No Comments

Album reviews

Celtic Czechs

Angel Romero August 28, 2005

Irish Dew Sance (Indies Records, 2005) Despite the name, this Celtic band is from the Czech Republic. Inspired by the music of the Emerald Isle,…

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Conferences

The 1st Puerto Rican Bomba Research Conference on September 2-3, 2005

World Music Central News Room August 27, 2005

Chicago (Illinois), USA – The 1st Bomba Research Conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois on September 2-3, 2005 (Labor Day weekend) at the Humboldt…

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Events

Tubapalooza Part 3 and Slavic Soul Party CD Release Party

admin August 27, 2005

New York City (New York), USA – Ron Caswell’s Tubapalooza Part Trois will take place on Saturday, September 24th 2005 at 9pm. It is a…

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New CDs and digital releases

Polka Raggioso

World Music Central News Room August 27, 2005

Minneapolis (Minnesota), USA – Swedish group Harv is back with Polka Raggioso: a new set of tunes which continue to push the envelope of Nordic…

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Concert reviews

Fascinating Dance Performance by Prashanti Natya Nilayam

World Music Central News Room August 26, 2005

Author: Lakshmi ‘Dheera Santushti’ – A new Horizon For Peace, was a fascinating contemporary theme very well expressed in the Dance show held on 09Aug…

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New CDs and digital releases

Rap from War-Torn Sudan

World Music Central News Room August 25, 2005

San Francisco (California), USA – Emmanuel Jal is one of the hottest rappers to explode out of the African music scene. A former child-soldier from…

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Album reviews

Hip Flamenco Billy

Angel Romero August 24, 2005

Mártires del Compás Sin Papeles (World Village) Mártires del Compás represents the hip contemporary urban sound of Seville, the capital of Andalucía (southern Spain). The…

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Obituaries

Synthesizer Visionary Robert Moog Dies at 71

World Music Central News Room August 23, 2005

Ashville (North Carolina), USA – Synthesizer inventor Robert Moog died August 21 at his home in Asheville, North Carolina. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed…

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New CDs and digital releases

Los Angeles Hip Hop artist Cleva taps his jazz, classical, and Flamenco Influences

World Music Central News Room August 23, 2005

Los Angeles (California), USA – /PRWEB/ – If Hip Hop gets a bad rap it’s because the genre remains largely within the narrow confines of…

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Events

Small World Music Announces Festival 2005 in Toronto, Canada

World Music Central News Room August 22, 2005

Toronto, Canada – The fourth annual Small World Music Festival returns with another season of world class music from September 22nd to October 2nd at…

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  • Backline Unveils New Single “Reaping the Blues”
  • Songs Carried Across Salt Water: Memory, Exile, And The Quiet Force Of Displaced Dreams
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