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Afropop Worldwide Returns to New York
Afropop Worldwide Returns to New York
With its goal to increase the profile of African and African Diaspora music worldwide and to see credit given to those artists, industry professionals and countries that produce the music, Afropop Worldwide is glad to broadcast once again in New York City....
 
Falu And Philip Glass Team-Up to Honor Gandhi
Falu And Philip Glass Team-Up to Honor Gandhi
On Thursday, April 3, they plan to hold an event benefiting Tricycle Magazine: The Buddhist Review, a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 1990. The performance and dinner begins at 6:00...
 
Mambo Pioneer Israel "Cachao" Lopez Dies
Mambo Pioneer Israel
Lopez, who immigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1962, is credited with introducing the mambo musical genre to generations of adoring fans. He died on Saturday after complications from kidney f...
 
Algerian Musician Lili Boniche Dies at 85
Algerian Musician Lili Boniche Dies at 85
Lili Boniche was born in 1921 to a Sephardic family of Andalusian origin, in the Kasbah of Algiers. He was only 10 years old when he left his family to be trained in the art of playing the ud, the Ara...
 
Manu Chao to Release New EP This Spring
Manu Chao to Release New EP This Spring
Set to be released by Nacional Records this spring, Manu Chao’s “Politik Kills” EP will feature a reggae remix collection of the 'La Radiolina' track by  artists like UK...
 
Reggae Star Mikey Dread Died of Brain Tumor
Reggae Star Mikey Dread Died of Brain Tumor
Mikey Dread was born in 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. From an early age, Campbell showed a natural aptitude for engineering and electronics. After he finished college, he partnered with Edi Fitzroy, ...
 
Ennio Morricone's Fans Turn Violent Protesters In Chile
Ennio Morricone's Fans Turn Violent Protesters In Chile
Although 10,000 tickets went up for sale, some 5,000 fans that had slept outside the Mapocho Station Cultural Center ticket window Saturday night were left without a seat. The shortage of tickets turn...
 
Andrea Gerak Backs After Cancer Operation
Andrea Gerak Backs After Cancer Operation
The recent months were rather eventful for Andrea Gerák  in between joyful travels and performances, medical examinations found she had cervical cancer . The Hungarian singer ,and her fami...
 
Debashish Bhattacharya Map North America
Debashish Bhattacharya Map North America
Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide-Guitar Odyssey (Riverboat, TUG1049) is a musical journey through the centuries of guitar playing in India. Using three unique guitars that BBC award winner Pandit Deb...
 
Eddie Palmieri to Perform Six Nights in Seattle
Eddie Palmieri to Perform Six Nights in Seattle
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle presents for six nights, Grammy-winning Latin jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri. Band members are Eddie Palmieri (piano), Conrad Herwig (t...
 
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