Towersey 2019 Announces Initial Line-up
Towersey folk and world music festival announced the first set of artists scheduled to perform August 23-26, 2019. The line-up so far includes The Unthanks,…
Phenomenal Women, Benefit Concert for Planned Parenthood Of New York City
World music act Banda Magda, Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg and Alt-Hip-Hop Funk group r.O.T.i (Resilience Of The Intelligent) with MC LiKWUiD will…
Tanya Tagaq, Keynote Speaker at Folk Alliance International 2019 Conference
Folk Alliance International has announced Tanya Tagaq as its 2019 keynote speaker. The conference will take place February 13-17 in Montreal, Canada. She is an…
Artist Profiles: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Headed by charismatic founder/composer Joseph Shabalala, Ladysmith Black Mambazo is Africa’s number one selling recording group. The name of the group comes from the city…
Artist Profiles: Lucky Dube
While successful reggae artists have traditionally hailed from the Island of Jamaica, over the decades of the 1980s and 1990s South African native Lucky Dube…
Interview with Faith i Branko
She’s an English rose, an accordionist and circus performer from a Cotswolds hamlet. He’s a virtuoso Roma violinist from a village in West Serbia. How…
Artist Profiles: Juluka
Juluka was a trailblazing band based in Johannesburg, South Africa, led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu. The band formed in the early 1970s and…
Artist Profiles: Johnny Clegg
Johnny Clegg, born in Rochdale, England in 1953 was raised in his mother’s native land of Zimbabwe before emigrating to South Africa at the age…
Artist Profiles: Cheikh M’Baye and Sing Sing Rhythm
Cheikh M’Baye and Sing Sing Rhythm is a drum and dance company of Wolof griots from Medina, Senegal. Founded in 1987, the group is named…
Artist Profiles: Katalena
Forming Katalena was quite coincidental. Coming from different musical backgrounds from more or less classic rock (Sfiltrom, Terra mystica, Bast), folk (Terra folk), blues (Moj…