Tombak In The Spotlight On Between Hands
Kaveh Mahmudiyan — Between Hands (Global Sonics, 2025) Kaveh Mahmudiyan’s first solo album, Between Hands presents his own compositions with the tombak (Persian goblet-shaped drum).…
Glatt & Verkehrt World Music Festival in Austria Presents 2015 Program
The annual Glatt & Verkehrt world music festival is set to take place July 3-26, 2015 in Krems (Wachau, Austria). The festival features a…
Norwegian Singer Hanne Tveter Presents New Music Video Luz De Luna
Luz De Luna (Moonlight), directed by Jesus Blanco, is the title of the new music video by Norwegian vocalist Hanne Tveter. The song is…
The Three New Bluegrass Divas Land for the First and Only Time in the Mediterranean
Last May, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan, among other artists, appeared at the Blues & Ritmes Festival in Badalona (city next to…
Balkan Beat Box and Sonido Vegetal to Perform in Madrid
Balkan Beat Box and Sonido Vegetal are set to perform at Sala But in Madrid on June 24, 2015. Angel Plur (Iboga) will DJ during…
Rahim AlHaj, Michael Alpert, and Drink Small, 2015 National Heritage Fellowship Award Winners
Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announced its 2015 National Heritage Fellowship award winners, the United States’ highest award in the folk and…
Tango’s Strength
Various Artists Discover Tango With ARC Music (ARC Music EUCD 2577) A few decades ago, the blues was a scorned and dying musical form. Today,…
Pimps of Joytime Release “Jump” Music Video
Genre-benders The Pimps of Joytime have a new music video titled “Jump”, extracted from their most recent album titled Jukestone Paradise The video was…
Reggae Legends Black Uhuru to Perform at The Kazimier in Liverpool
Celebrated reggae act Black Uhuru is set to perform at the Kazimier club in Liverpool (UK) on Friday August 14th, 2015. Five-Star General, Derrick…
Program for Suma Flamenca 2015’s Second Week
The second week of the tenth edition of the Suma Flamenca Festival (Flamenco Summit Festival) in Madrid, running from 9 to June 14, will…
Afro-Latin Shamanic Journey Across South America
Iemanjo Medicina (Black Swan Sounds, 2015) Medicina, released this week, takes you to the beats of Caribbean coast of South America, the mountain melodies of…