Bonnie Raitt at Her Best
Bonnie Raitt – Dig In Deep (Redwing Records, 2016) She’s piled up recordings like Give It Up, Takin’ My Time, Sweet Forgiveness, Nick of Time,…
Kingston’s Summer of ’66
In the history of Jamaican music, there is a before and an after the summer of 1966. Jamaican history had always been both turbulent and…
California WorldFest Announces Official Lineup
This year is California WorldFest’s 20th anniversary. The event will take place July 14-17, 2016, in Grass Valley, California. For the past two decades California…
Amir John Haddad “El Amir” to perform with the Marcus Miller Band in Madrid
Acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Amir John Haddad will join American bass master Marcus Miller on April 12th at Nuevo Teatro Apolo. Other guests include Josemi Carmona (Ketama)…
Artist Profile: Abbi
Abbi is one of Kenya’s finest Afro-fusionist. With roots in Kenyan people’s traditional instruments and tunes, he fuses contemporary instruments from the world today, such…
The Cultural Richness of Diversity Showcased at Babel Med Music 2016 – Day 3
On Saturday night, most of the bands were French to please the general public. The crowd around was younger on average than in the previous…
Carole Demesmin
She’s now occasionally an old lady singer and a powerful Vodou priestess, or a manbo. She now mostly sits and only sometimes comments instead of…
Artist Profiles: Aashish Khan Debsharma
Sarod maestro Aashish Khan Debsharma was born on December 5, 1939, in Maihar, India. He gave his first public performance at the age of 13,…
Remarkable Slavic Songs
Stranniki – Light Moon (Sketis Music SKMR-106, 2014) On Light Moon (Светлый месяц), Russian band Stranniki (Странники) delivers an excellent set of traditional Slavic songs…
Azel
In 2007, several Tuareg groups rebelled in Niger and in Mali. It was the not the very first instance of Tuareg rebellion in Niger and…