Merlefest Live!: The Best of 2003 Set for May 11 Release
Wilkesboro, USA – MerleFest Records, distributed exclusively by Welk Music Group, has announced a May 11, 2004 street date for MerleFest Live!: The Best of…
Ever Steady
Monty Alexander with Ernest Ranglin Rocksteady(Telarc CD 83581, 2004) Two longstanding icons of Jamaican popular music, pianist Monty Alexander and guitarist Ernest Ranglin, have been…
Deadlines for WOMEX 2004 Announced
Berlin, Germany – The organizers of WOMEX 2004, the largest world music trade show, have announced the deadlines for showcase and conference proposals. WOMEX 2004…
Cómhrá na dTonn, a Book and CD About Irish Traditional Music
Cómhrá na dTonn by Máire Nic Dómhnaill Gairbhí (2004, ISBN 0-9545324-0-6) Cómhrá na dTonn means the Conversation of the Waves. It is a book of…
Cheb Balowski\’s Mestizo Sound on Tour
Madrid, Spain – Cheb Balowski, a group based in the Barcelona area, which plays hybrid music, is just about ready to take its album Potiner…
Teada: a fiddle dee dee, a fiddle da da
Téada – Give Us a Penny and Let Us Be Gone (Green Linnet GLCD 1228, 2004) Oisín Mac Diarmada – Irish Fiddle Music From Sligo…
Emmanuel Riley – Pan Tuner and Renowned Pan Soloist
An April Spring Saturday in Brooklyn, New York, heralded the first-time visit of Emmanuel ‘Corbeau Jack’ Riley – steel pan soloist extraordinaire and, master pan…
The Agenda for Century 21
agendaC21.com is the home of desperado rockers The Used Johnnys. Being sickened and horrified about the situation in Iraq, the group banded together around a…
Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima
Washington DC, USA – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released recently Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima, a back-to-basics recording of Afro-Puerto Rican bomba and plena roots…
Bush Could Invade Cuba to Get Reelected, Silvio Rodriguez States
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cuba – If he found himself in a tight spot for his reelection, US President George W. Bush could invade…