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    Benedicte Maurseth’s Mirra Follows the Call of the Wild

    Benedicte Maurseth – Mirra (Hubro, 2025) With Mirra (2025), Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player and composer Benedicte Maurseth deepens her exploration of sound, landscape, and ecology.…

    Madison Quinn March 20, 2026 No Comments
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    Dub Will Keep Us Together, Nick Page’s Final Dub Colossus Album

    Dub Colossus – Dub Will Keep Us Together (Real World X, 2026) Dub Will Keep Us Together is the final Dub Colossus album to feature…

    Angel Romero March 19, 2026 No Comments
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    Laura Camacho Unveils Todo Tiempo Pasado — Tango Meets Britney And Kate Bush

    Laura Camacho – Todo Tiempo Pasado (Athens Tango Project, 2025) Argentine composer and orchestra bassist Laura Camacho has a new album titled Todo Tiempo Pasado…

    Iliana Cabrera March 18, 2026 No Comments
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    Boiled In Lead Comes Back with Celtic Punk Attitude

    Boiled In Lead – King of the Dogwoods (Omnium Records, 2026) Boiled In Lead’s King of the Dogwoods is the Minnesota band’s first studio release…

    Angel Romero March 16, 2026 No Comments
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    Traditional Sounds of Sivac Pipes Take Center Stage

    Maksim Mudrinić, Oskar Kovač – Made in Sivac: Serbian Music from Vojvodina (Antonovka Records, 2025) This field recording captures traditional music from Vojvodina, the autonomous…

    Tyler Bennet March 15, 2026 No Comments
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Featured News

  • Transglobal Underground - Doin’ the Moonshine cover artwork. A photo of a large barn next to a windmill.
    Music videos

    Transglobal Underground Returns With “Doin’ the Moonshine” Twist

    World Music Central News Room March 19, 2026 No Comments
  • Sami Yusuf playing oud.
    Music videos

    Sami Yusuf’s New Album Weaves Ancient Chants Into One Global Voice

    World Music Central News Room March 18, 2026 No Comments
  • The Klezmatics - “Un Du Akerst” cover artwork. A protest poster-style cover in red, black, and off. Shows two clenched fists in broken chains rising toward a burst of shattered fragments.
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    Klezmatics Clock In With A New Protest Song

    World Music Central News Room March 17, 2026 No Comments
  • Angélique Kidjo - Photo by Brantley Gutiérrez. Angélique wearing a turban and a dress with a large flower on the shoulder.
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    Angélique Kidjo Shares New Single “Fall On Me”

    World Music Central News Room March 15, 2026 No Comments
  • Bryan Sutton Blue Night cover artwork. A blue cover with an image of a leafless tree.
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    Bryan Sutton And Joe Bonamassa Light Up “Blue Night”

    World Music Central News Room March 14, 2026 No Comments
  • A cover on a cream background features a striped sunset in yellow behind blue palm trees and flying birds. The title “Sunshine All Year Round” curves in blue above the image, with “Celtic Roots Reggae” centered beneath it, while “Owen Casey” appears large at the bottom in yellow-and-blue lettering.
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    In the Forecast

    Tom Orr March 12, 2026 No Comments

Music videos

Dobet Gnahoré Reveals “Vis Ta Vie” Music Video

World Music Central News Room August 12, 2021 No Comments AfropopDobet Gnahoré

West African music star Dobet Gnahoré has released a music video version of her Afropop song “Vis Ta Vie.” Gnahoré encourages you to live your…

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Music videos

Luana Bayô at Malungo Festival

World Music Central News Room August 11, 2021 No Comments Afro-BrazilianBrazilian musicjongoLuana Bayôsambavissungo

Luana Bayô recently participated in Malungo Festival, a showcase of Afro-Brazilian msambausic. Luana is a singer, songwriter and educator from São Paulo. Her work is…

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Events

Rocky Dawuni to Perform Live at World Peace Music Fest in Los Angeles

World Music Central News Room August 11, 2021 No Comments ReggaeRocky Dawuniworld music

Ghanaian reggae and world music star Rocky Dawuni is set to perform live at the World Peace Music Festival in historic Leimert Park, Los Angeles…

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Funky Tabla, Interview with Badal Roy

Music of the World August 10, 2021 No Comments Badal RoyIndian musictabla

Amerendra ‘Badal’ Roy Choudhury arrived in New York in 1968 with a pair of tablas and eight dollars in his pocket. In three days he…

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Album reviews

A Beautiful Journey Further Downstream from the Roots

Angel Romero August 10, 2021 No Comments Celtic musicTeyr

Teyr – Estren (Sleight of Hand Records, 2021) Innovative acoustic roots music band Teyr has a new album titled Estren. The trio plays a fabulous,…

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Events

Hubby Jenkins to Perform Old Time and Blues Concert August 11

Angel Romero August 10, 2021 No Comments Hubby Jenkinsold time

The Hubby Jenkins is set to perform a half-hour concert in the Folklife Concerts’s Homegrown at Home series. The concert will take place August 11,…

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Events

Positive Vibration’s Festival of Reggae announces Full 2021 Line-up

World Music Central News Room August 9, 2021 No Comments Positive VibrationReggae

The UK’s award-winning festival of reggae Positive Vibration will return yo Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle on September 10 and 11, 2021. This year’s edition of the…

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Awards

Top Flamenco Contest, Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas Reveals 2021 Winners

Angel Romero August 8, 2021 No Comments Festival Internacional del Cante de las MinasFlamenco

The 60th edition of the influential Flamenco contest Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas announced 2021’s winners. Granada-born singer cantaora Amparo Heredia Reyes, artistically…

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New CDs and digital releases

Lokembe Act Acholi Machon Releases Sons of South Sudan

World Music Central News Room August 8, 2021 No Comments Acholi MachonSouth Sudanese music

South Sudanese band Acholi Machon has a new EP album titled Sons of South Sudan (Good Deeds Music). The new material is being released in…

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New Releases

Six Degrees Releases Posthumous Recording by Cheb i Sabbah

World Music Central News Room August 7, 2021 No Comments Cheb i Sabbahworld fusion

Before he died in 2013, world fusion artist Cheb i Sabbah nearly completed a final recording. The song “Keep Coming Back” is the first single…

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