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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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    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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    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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    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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    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.
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    Fatoumata Diawara Celebrates Freedom on New Single, “Fala”

    World Music Central News Room April 22, 2026 No Comments
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    Backline Unveils New Single “Reaping the Blues”

    World Music Central News Room April 20, 2026 No Comments
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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

Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles: Citania

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments Celtic musicCitaniaGalician musicSpain

Citania was started in 1986, researching Galician traditional tunes and recovering ancient musical instruments. The group disbanded in the early 1990s. Musicians: Xosé Álvarez on…

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Artist Profiles: Chouteira

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments ChouteiraGalician musicSpain

Chouteira performed Galician tradititonal music sucjh as pasodobles, muiñeiras and waltzes with new arrangements and featured the beautiful voice of Uxía Pedreira. The group incorporated…

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Artist Profiles: Chicuelo

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments ChicueloFlamencoflamenco guitarSpain

Juan Gómez “Chicuelo”(Little Kid) was born in Barcelona in 1968. He began studying the guitar as a boy in the flamenco peñas (clubs) of Barcelona.…

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Artist Profiles: Chambao

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments ChambaoFlamencoFlamenco chilloutSpain

Chambao, the platinum selling band from Malaga defined the technological frontier of Spain’s reinvention of Flamenco. Somewhere between the organic passion of gritty flamenco of…

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Artist Profiles: Carmen Linares

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments Carmen LinaresFlamencoSpain

Carmen Pacheco Rodríguez, better known as Carmen Linares, was born in 1951 in Linares, a small village in Jaen province, Spain. She has earned by…

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Artist Profiles: Carles Benavent

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments bassCarles BenaventFlamencofusion

Bass player, Carles Benavent, was born in the Pueblo Seco (Poble Sec) neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain. His earliest days playing music were in blues and…

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Artist Profiles: Carlos Núñez

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 1 Comment Carlos NúñezCeltic musicgaitaGalician musicworld fusionworld music

Thoruhgout his career playing the gaita (Galician bagpipe) Carlos Núñez , a charismatic piper from Spain’s northwestern coast, has collaborated frequently with the Chieftains, Ry…

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Artist Profiles: Carlos Piñana

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments Carlos PiñanaFlamencoflamenco guitarSpainworld fusion

Carlos Piñana is the youngest of the Piñana saga, a family of deep flamenco tradition that started with the patriarch, his grandfather Antonio Piñana, a…

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Artist Profiles: Camerata Meiga

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 No Comments Camerata MeigaGalician musicSpain

Camerata Meiga started off as the natural development of a previous musical existence as Xeque Mate (Checkmate). They had recorded two albums under that name:…

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Album reviews

Raga Jazz from Washington DC

Angel Romero January 19, 2019 1 Comment Broto RoyBroto Roy QuartetIndian musicworld fusion

On All Barriers Fall (Buzkhashi Rercords, 2018), Washington DC-based Broto Roy Quartet plays original melodic pieces and improvisation, where Indian music meets American jazz. The…

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