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Toubab Krewe Confirms US Spring Tour
Toubab Krewe Confirms US Spring Tour
Toubab Krewe kicks off the second leg of its U.S. Spring Tour this weekend with shows in Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. The tour continues from coast to coast, with new dates added throughout the country. Toubab Krewe's May 10th show in New York City has changed venues from the Highline Ballroom ...
 
Gilberto Gil Announce North American Tour
Gilberto Gil Announce North American Tour
Beginning June 18 and lasting throughout July, Grammy Award-winning artist Gilberto Gil will tour North America in what is to be know n as the Gilberto Gil-Broadband Tour. The event will feature a ful...
 
Dave Brubeck Wins Medal for Spreading Jazz
Dave Brubeck Wins Medal for Spreading Jazz
"As a little girl I grew up on the sounds of Dave Brubeck because my dad was your biggest fan," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at ceremony where Brubeck received the departmen...
 
Placido Domingo Goes Old Spanish Pop with New Album
Placido Domingo Goes Old Spanish Pop with New Album
"They brought back memories. Back then, in the 1950s and 60s, everyone knew those songs."
 
Pavarotti Lipsynched Last Performance
Pavarotti Lipsynched Last Performance
Luciano Pavarotti, in severe pain months before his cancer diagnosis, lip-synched his last performance, according to the maestro who conducted the aria at the opening ceremony of the Turin Olympics. T...
 
Colombian Rocker Juanes Helps Land-Mine Victims
Colombian Rocker Juanes Helps Land-Mine Victims
In 2005, Juanes created his Mi Sangre foundation, with the purpose of rehabilitating and educating land mine victims and their families and reintegrating them socially and economically....
 
Najma Akhtar And Gary Lucas Announce Gig
Najma Akhtar And Gary Lucas Announce Gig
Najma Akhtar, who Ian Anderson said, "is the premier lady Indian (Asian) singer on the planet" and Gary Lucas, who Rolling Stone called, "one of the best and most original guitarists in...
 
Nomo Set to Release Ghost Rock
Nomo Set to Release Ghost Rock
Michigan-based band Nomo is set to release their new album Ghost Rock on June 17. Produced by Ubiquity records, the album is the band’s third and develops their blend of funk, Afrobeat and jazz ...
 
World Music Institute Presents Zakir Hussain
World Music Institute Presents Zakir Hussain
National Heritage Masters is a special series presented by the World Music Institute that celebrates 25 years of the National Endowment for the Art’s National Heritage Fellowships. On April 26, ...
 
Jose Feliciano to Perform for The Pope Benedict XVI
Jose Feliciano to Perform for The Pope Benedict XVI
Six-time Grammy winner Jose Feliciano is considered by many as the world’s “greatest living guitarist.” He has been deemed by the Associated Press as being “the first establish...
 
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