The World Music Institute (WMI) has announced its Fall-Winter 2026–27 season, following the organization’s 40th anniversary celebration as a leading New York City presenter of…
Minyo Crusaders – Live At Le Guess Who? (Mais Um, 2021) Celebrated Japanese band Minyo Crusaders recorded “Live At Le Guess Who?” in 2019 at…
For the performing arts in America, two key annual events last month, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) Conference APAPNYC.org and globalFEST’s Festival combined…
The 2021 special edition of globalFEST continues today with four more world music concerts. Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST is a collaboration between long-running New York…
New York world music showcase festival, globalFEST, has announced additional performances by former showcase artists for its 17th edition. These world music acts include Ukrainian…
Influential world music showcase festival globalFEST will be held January 11 – 14, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulty of international travel affected globalFEST’s…
WOMADELAIDE 2020, Adelaide, South Australia – March 6-9 Back on the sunny long weekend in March, jokes about the early onset of ‘The Virus’ seemed…
The Transglobal World Music Chart has revealed the list of Best World Music Albums of 2019. Malian musician. Malian act Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba…
“Echoes of Japan” by Japanese ensemble Minyo Crusaders is the number 1 album in the June edition of the Transglobal World Music Chart. Minyo Crusaders,…
In the late 1990s, guitarist Katsumi Tanaka moved to Fussa, a city in western Tokyo immersed in counter-culture folklore. Initially uninterested in min’yō, a catastrophic…