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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…

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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

  • Backline Reaping the Blues cover artwork. A photo of an old 20th century tractor in a farm field.
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    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
  • 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
  • Moyses Dos Dantos — Photo by Brian Cross. Moyses leaning against a building wall wearing a black hat.
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    Moyses Dos Santos Releases Lead Single “Boa Viagem”

    World Music Central News Room April 15, 2026 No Comments

Events

Composition and orchestration in Transcultural Modal Music Seminar by Ross Daly

Angel Romero June 10, 2005

Houdetsi, Crete, Greece – Ross Daly will be teaching a musical workshop called Composition & Orchestration in trans-cultural modal music as part of the Musical…

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Tour Announcements

Santana’s Summer 2005 ‘Embrace Your Light’ Tour Radiates New York City

World Music Central News Room June 10, 2005

New York City, USA /PRNewswire/ – Carlos Santana and the Santana Band’s Summer 2005 “Embrace Your Light” tour arrives in New York City for a…

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Los Tucanes de Tijuana Performs at the San Diego County Fair Latin Series

World Music Central News Room June 10, 2005

San Diego, California, USA /PRNewswire/ – The widely popular Norteño band, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, will perform in San Diego on Father’s Day as part…

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Conferences

Viva Popkomm! Spain Becomes Partner Country in 2005

Angel Romero June 10, 2005

Berlin – With numerous bands and solo performers and a stand covering more than 150 square meters, Spain will be acting as partner country at…

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Awards

ISC Competition Now Accepting Entries for 2005

Angel Romero June 10, 2005

Nashville, Tennessee, USA – With over $100,000 in cash and prizes and the most prestigious panel of judges of any songwriting competition in the world,…

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New CDs and digital releases

Greek guitar music – Eva Fampas plays Fampas

admin June 10, 2005

Greece – Renowned Greek classical guitarist Eva Fampas has just released her new cd on the Italian classical label . The whole CD is dedicated…

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Album reviews

From Belize and Sure to Please

Tom Orr June 10, 2005

Aurelio Martinez – Garifuna Soul (Stonetree Records STR026, 2004) Leroy Young The Grandmaster – Just Like That… (Stonetree Records STR025, 2003) Fond though I am…

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New CDs and digital releases

The Rough Guide To The Music Of The Sahara

World Music Central News Room June 10, 2005 Malian musicMauritanian musicMoroccan musicSaharawi musicTuareg music

San Francisco, California, USA – Traveling across Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Western Sahara, The Rough Guide To The Music Of The Sahara (RGNET1153CD) encompasses the…

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Tour Announcements

Cheb i Sabbah joins Khaled & Friends for North American Tour 2005

World Music Central News Room June 9, 2005

San Francisco, California, USA – Following his latest release, La Kahena, Cheb i Sabbah joins the “King of Rai”, Khaled, for the Peace through Music,…

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Events

A Recital of Armenian & Middle-Eastern Music

nourachicago June 9, 2005

  Xauen Music & the DeKoven Center are proud to present a recital of Armenian & Middle-Eastern Music featuring Armenian musician Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian on…

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