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Amadou and Mariam, "the blind couple from Mali", have been playing their warm African rhythms and infectiously catchy melodies for almost thirty years now. After establishing a reputation in Africa, the duo finally broke onto the international music scene in two stages, first with the hit single "Mon amour, ma chérie" in 1998.

Nothing is pure. Rebel yourself.
fresh brazilian bastardsound, made in vienna.
Célia Mara makes music with a big smile. Singing about new, interesting times. The voice of urban migrations…
Imagine…Brazil going funk, Samba mixed with Cumbia and Rap, Electric-Tango, Punk and NuBossa…Célia Mara is presenting a new approach to Brazilian diasporamusic, bringing together brazilian, latin and western music concepts. It's all about cultural identity.

Lyrics: Omar Khayyam
Music: Majeed Beenteha
Directed by Israel Ernest

This web link ( easiest accessed thru msn.com ) features the contempoaray music of South African recording artist Maxwell Vidima. There are 6 songs, plus pictures in the "pics" section and a short video in the "blog" section.

myspace of dj negro pesimo, chilean dj of gypsy music, balkan beats, afrolatin beats

I am having been a user of Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO 3). Now Garritan has released GPO4.

Herderberg is a duo from Austria. Songs in English and Austrian dialect fusing ethnic elements from all over the world (especially Native American and Celtic).

Born in 1977 in Mayo-Oulo in the mountains north of Cameroon into the ethnic group "fali and peuls".
Idrissou-Mana, (which is his Muslim name), began his musical life in the traditional music of the Savannah close to the griots and shepherds of his village. Idy-Oulo takes his influences from Makossa, Bikutsi and the Congolese Rumba and records his adventures as soloist accompanied by local musicians from the Charente region of France.

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Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, just as the civil unrest that rocked the country was beginning, rapper K'NAAN spent the early years of his life trying to avoid death and listening to the hip-hop records sent to him from America by his father, who had left Somalia earlier. When K'NAAN (whose name means "traveler" in Somali) was 13, he, his mother, and his two siblings were able to leave their homeland and join relatives in Harlem, where they stayed briefly before moving to Rexdale, Ontario, where there was a large Somali community.

Lyrics: Leah goldberg
Music: Ahoova Ozeri

Known throughout the world as Mama Africa,  is a legend who lived an extraordinary life. Born in South Africa in 1932, she first made her name as a featured vocalist with the Manhattan Brothers in 1954. Makeba's incredible voice won her the lead role in King Kong, a Broadway-inspired South African musical, together with Hugh Masekela, her future husband. She went on to conquer America where she sang at President Kennedy's birthday and worked with Harry Belafonte creating classics such as The Click Song and Pata Pata.

Txalaparta players from Basque, OREKA TX document their musical journeys on cd and dvd: NOMADAK TX. The cd is available now on World Village.

With his rich voice and soulful delivery, PAULO FILIPE is one of Canada's up and coming young Fado stars. Though born in Toronto, he has immersed himself in the expressionist sound of Portugal - a musical bridge that connects our souls with no language barrier

Pops Mohamed (aka “The Fucha-Rist”), South Africa’s celebrated ethnic African musician, is a firm traditionalist. He explores the fusion of his soulful music with modern influences and expertise. Healing Sounds From Mother Africa: An African Ambient Experience is the latest album release from Pops Mohamed. This is a continuation of his constant musical and traditional explorations, on which he plays a large number of instruments, including unusual ones like the kora (a harp from West Africa), the mbira (a thumb piano from Zimbabwe), the didgeridoo (native to the Aboriginal people of Australia) and the birimbau (developed by the South American Indians and the Khoisan of the Kalahari Desert).

The Voice of Tibet, SONAME delights listeners with new album PLATEAU available now on World Village.

What Tallowood has to say about the gigs, the music and the world in general.

Touareg legends TINARIWEN on myspace. (new album IMIDIWAN: COMPANIONS coming soon to World Village).

MONDAY MARCH 8 (International Women's Day) @ 6:00 pm

HarmoNYom in association with Drom & WKCR 89.9 FM present
“A VOICE FOR AYITI"
A Great Benefit Concert for the Women and Children in HAITI.

When Continents meet to support Haitian relief!
Amazing musicians from INDIA, AFRICA & HAITI will get together for a full evening of Music and Dance:

- Pandit Ramesh Misra on Sarangi
- Arun Ramamurthy, Carnatic Violinist
- Sitarist Ustad Ikhlaq Hussain
- Nitin Mitta on Tabla
- A.R. Balaskandan on Mridangam
- Singer & Song writer James Ruff
- Zing Experience (Paul Beaubrun & Cynthia Casasola)
- Drummer Percussionist Tiga Jean-Baptiste & Tchaka
- Source w/ Abdoulaye Diabate
& special Guest Yacouba Sissoko on Kora

After Party with super DJ Kamala (NYC)

Evening hosted by Hazelle Goodman, Actress & Comedienne.
Afro/Caribbean music by WKCR’s DJ David Ellenbogen
And Raffle to win many gifts! All proceeds to the cause.

@ DROM - 85 Avenue A (Between 5/6 Street) New York, NY www.dromnyc.com

Minimum Donation: $20 (Only at door)

100% of the donations will be channeled to Project Haiti (www.prohaiti.org) & MADRE (www.madre.org) 2 NGO helping Women & Children in Haiti.

For more details: Veronique@HarmoNYom.org

Festival International de Louisiane is truly a community event drawing together approximately 1,500 volunteers from all segments of the community to work together to celebrate both our diversity and the common human experience that binds us together. Through the arts presented and the joint efforts to produce it, the festival contributes to the spirit of community that is so unique to the Acadiana region.

Stay tuned for all upcoming Concerts & Events of Indian Classical Music organized in New York ...

HarmoNYom " A Voice for Indian Classical Music" seeks to serve as a “Voice” and platform for the world-renowned Indian Classical Maestros, as well as the emerging talents; a platform where musicians can bring forth enhanced exposure, awareness and appreciation of the rich Indian traditional music’s legacy and share their own dedication for music with a diverse and larger audience interested in preserving the Indian culture outside of India!

The Millennium Stage is found in the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. The Chairman of the national center for the performing arts, James A. Johnson, launched "Performing Arts for Everyone" in the winter of 1997. Performing Arts for Everyone is designed to introduce the Kennedy Center and its programs to a far wider audience than ever before by providing a performance open to the public and free of charge 365 days a year.

Millennium Stage is a premier stop for touring World Music artists. A video archive of past performances can be found on their website.

Mahalia Jackson, often called the greatest gospel singer, returned to her hometown to appear at the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in April of 1970. While attending the Louisiana Heritage Fair in Congo Square (then known as Beauregard Square), she and Duke Ellington, who also appeared at the event, came upon the Eureka Brass Band leading a crowd of second-line revelers through the Festival grounds. George Wein, producer of the Festival, handed Ms. Jackson a microphone, she sang along with the band and joined the parade…and the spirit of Jazz Fest was born.

The Planet Arlington World Music Festival is an annual event across the Potomac River from Washington DC. It's the County’s signature event that brings musical groups who fuse traditional and contemporary sounds from around the globe to Arlington’s spectacular front yard at the Iwo Jima Memorial on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend each year.

In 2005, AMP Concerts and Avokado Artists, working the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC), launched ¡Globalquerque! – New Mexico’s Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture. The inaugural festival was an affiliated showcase event of the Western Arts Alliance (WAA) Conference and featured thirteen international and local acts (over 100 performers) on three stages in one night at the NHCC. The event created a national and international buzz and was attended by notable presenters, agents and record labels from all over the country. In 2006 ¡Globalquerque! expanded into a weeklong, statewide celebration of international culture with elements spanning the entire state, culminating in the two-day festival at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, featuring educational workshops, community outreach events, the Global Village of Craft Culture and Cuisine and, of course, the best in World Music on three distinct stages. ¡Globalquerque! has hosted artists from more than forty countries and from across the US. In 2008 the festival hosted twenty performances by seventeen acts from five continents performing on three stages over two nights.

Alana Tutwiler is the Jacksonville Reggae Examiner. She covers reggae and other Caribbean music events of interest to the Jacksonville, FL, USA area as well as nationally and internationally.

Link of Instrumental music

Clovys TV - Le Blogue is a companion website (in French) for the upcoming TV channel, dedicated to Urban Music, that'll launch in September in Quebec.
It's 3 main areas are Soul/RnB, Rap/Hip Hop and Worldbeat.
A collective of bloggers publish posts on a regular basis: news, reviews, tours, festivals, new artists...

These pages - with sample tracks and videos posted - introduce and review new music which may otherwise go unheard and unnoticed. New Music from Elsewhere reviews new albums (and some important reissues) you'll play more than once at home or in the car, and will want to tell friends about.

Published monthly and circulated across North America, Europe and hundreds of other locations worldwide, New York-based Global Rhythm is a vital source of music and arts news and reviews for a worldly and sophisticated consumer niche.

Heather L Weimer is a photographer that specializes in World Music photography.  She has covered events such as Nuits D'Afrique, Planet Arlington, Virgin Mobile Festival and more.

Independent music, global news, and local voices. KAOS has been bringing listeners an independent alternative sound every day since 1973. Featuring various global music shows weekdays 10am-noon as well as at other times throughout the broadcast week.

KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading National Public Radio affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news, information and cultural programming. The station boasts one of the nation's largest arrays of locally- produced, nationally-distributed talk program content. KCRW.com extends the station's profile globally, with three streams featuring web-exclusive content: all music, all news and the live station simulcast, as well as an extensive list of podcasts. The non-commercial broadcast signal reaches 550,000 listeners weekly and is supported by 55,000 member/subscribers.

KGLT 91.9 fm is listener-supported, alternative public radio broadcasting for over 40 years from the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, with translators in Helena (98.1) and Livingston (89.5) and streaming on the web at www.kglt.net.

KGLT provides an alternative to conventional radio by offering commercial-free programming with a staff of community volunteers playing music in a format-free environment.

KPFA's Mission

* To promote cultural diversity and pluralistic community expression
* To contribute to a lasting understanding between individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors
* To promote freedom of the press and serve as a forum for various viewpoints
* To maintain an independent funding base

We are a listener-supported, public radio station, located in Lafayette, Louisiana. We broadcast live annually from the Cajun Music Festival, the Zydeco Festival, and the Festival International de Louisiane, as well as producing and airing live broadcasts of the Louisiana Crossroads series.

We play Cajun music, Zydeco, Blues, Jazz, Swamp Pop, Swamp Rock, Louisiana singer/ songwriter music, and many other types of music created and played in Louisiana.

Megan Romer is a lifelong aficionado of world and ethnic music who turned her passion into a multifaceted career in the world music industry, working in marketing, writing and booking/promotion. She is also an amateur musician, dabbling in fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and diatonic accordion, among other things.

Local artists and others Jammin World Mix

Welcome to Music of Armenia, the home for lovers of Armenian music.

Music of Armenia promotes music and musicians of Armenian origin regardless of their fan base, popularity or genre of music. It offers an equal playing field for all featured musicians to promote their talent and music to fans around the world.

PRI's The World presents the Global Hit, a daily spotlight on international musical artists or trends.

Created by The World's Marco Werman (right), the Global Hit features interviews with musicians, critics and deejays around the globe.

A podcast series from Smithsonian Folkways and CKUA Radio
This series of 24 one-hour programs explores the remarkable collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up Folkways Records (now at the Smithsonian as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings). The music of modern day giants like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Ani Difranco is interwoven with original Folkways recordings to demonstrate the lasting legacy that Folkways Records has on popular music. Recent and archival interviews with Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Mickey Hart, Studs Terkel, and others help reveal the remarkable human stories behind this equally remarkable collection. The series was produced by CKUA Radio in Alberta, Canada and originally aired in 1999.

To subscribe to the series, copy and paste this URL into your podcasting program. Or download each episode as an MP3 file directly to your computer from the following list.

SoundRoots global culture: world music reviews, mp3s, interviews, & news, plus world music calendar, opinions, & links.

Spin the Globe world music radio: the best in world music, interviews, & culture, streaming live & featuring a Pacific Northwest events calendar + CD reviews & world music news.

Kyle Music is a family owned business promoting world music as a way of life. We believe everyone can be a musician, and the best way to begin is to find an instrument that you like the sound of and then start playing. You will find a wide variety of musical instruments on our website. Please feel free to use our contact form with any questions you may have.