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World Music

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Jump N' Funk With Afrobeat Ambassador Rich Medina at the Electric Pickle on Saturday

    When legendary Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti toured the US in the '70s, he was blown away by the funk, soul, disco and other African-American music forms he heard here. So he took them with him back to Nigeria, threw them in the blender with some African dance highlife and traditional Yoruba music, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Boston String Quartet's Ethno-Urban Orchestra Brings Musical Melting Pot to Miami Schools

    ​A spoonful of Nintendo helps the Beethoven go down. That's the philosophy that the Boston String Quartet has applied to getting high school students excited about classical music with its Ethno-Urban Orchestra.Through this initiative, the BSQ will invite about 100 high school students from around ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Tinariwen (and Sophie Hunger!) Speak the Universal Language of Music, November 10

    Via facebook.com/TinariwenMusic​Tinariwen With Sophie Hunger Presented by Rhythm Foundation Grand Central Thursday, November 11, 2011 Better Than: Being exiled from your native land and wandering the desert in search of rock 'n' roll. In the past month Grand Central has treated us to eye-cros ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Tinariwen Brings Desert Rebel Rock to Grand Central November 10

    ​​While there's reason to rage against the media saturation inherent to the internet (e.g. too many chill/witch/triangle clone bands uploading from their bedrooms), you've got to celebrate the World Wide Web for the incomparable access it grants to musical worlds previously impossible to connect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Seun Kuti Talks From Africa With Fury: Rise and His Father Fela's Legacy

    ​As far as Seun Kuti is concerned, art should inspire society. And it should be political. "The fact that music is no longer as political as it used to be, say in '60s and '70s, is one of the problems we have with youth education and development today," Kuti says. "Because most youths don't eve ... More >>

  • Music

    July 28, 2011

    Seun Kuti and Egypt '80 at Manuel Artime Theater July 29

    ​As far as Seun Kuti is concerned, art should inspire society. And it should be political. "The fact that music is no longer as political as it used to be, say in '60s and '70s, is one of the problems we have with youth education and development today," Kuti says. "Because most youths don't eve ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2011

    Antibalas at North Beach Bandshell April 30

    ​As far as Seun Kuti is concerned, art should inspire society. And it should be political. "The fact that music is no longer as political as it used to be, say in '60s and '70s, is one of the problems we have with youth education and development today," Kuti says. "Because most youths don't eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Full Schedule for Afro Roots World Music Festival 2011

    Ghana's soul rebel Rocky Dawani.​Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn't matter whether you're downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There's no avoiding it ... You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th ye ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2011

    Cue the Klezmer

    Ghana's soul rebel Rocky Dawani.​Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn't matter whether you're downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There's no avoiding it ... You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th ye ... More >>

  • Music

    November 18, 2010

    Toubab Krewe at Electric Pickle November 18

    Ghana's soul rebel Rocky Dawani.​Can you hear that slow-building beat rumbling through the streets? It doesn't matter whether you're downtown, over in the Design District, or holed up in the Grove. There's no avoiding it ... You can feel it in your feet, your knees, and your gut. For the 13th ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    12th Annual Afro Roots World Music Festival Kicks Off Tonight at Transit Lounge

    From many angles (musical, cultural, etc.) one can argue that we all have African roots. But that's not an argument that I feel qualified to follow up on, especially since I'm a huge Fela Kuti fan and while not having an ounce of his genius in me (that's why I write about music, duh), I feel a cer ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    Funk up Your Friday

    From many angles (musical, cultural, etc.) one can argue that we all have African roots. But that's not an argument that I feel qualified to follow up on, especially since I'm a huge Fela Kuti fan and while not having an ounce of his genius in me (that's why I write about music, duh), I feel a cer ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    Expand Your World With Music

    From many angles (musical, cultural, etc.) one can argue that we all have African roots. But that's not an argument that I feel qualified to follow up on, especially since I'm a huge Fela Kuti fan and while not having an ounce of his genius in me (that's why I write about music, duh), I feel a cer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2008

    MTV Hosts First Ever African Music Awards

    As I was cruising the blogosphere over the weekend, I came across an interesting story that definitely caught me by surprise. MTV, home to all things exploitive and pop, just held their first annual African Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria this past Saturday. It's a move that could bolster more visibi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Throwback Tuesdays--Buika "Mi nina Lola"

    As I was cruising the blogosphere over the weekend, I came across an interesting story that definitely caught me by surprise. MTV, home to all things exploitive and pop, just held their first annual African Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria this past Saturday. It's a move that could bolster more visibi ... More >>

  • Music

    August 14, 2008

    New World Beat

    As I was cruising the blogosphere over the weekend, I came across an interesting story that definitely caught me by surprise. MTV, home to all things exploitive and pop, just held their first annual African Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria this past Saturday. It's a move that could bolster more visibi ... More >>

  • Music

    May 29, 2008

    Various Artists

    Blackstars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation (Outhere)

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Throwback Tuesdays: Orishas

    Blackstars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation (Outhere)

  • Music

    July 19, 2007

    Various Artists

    A New Groove and Latin Jazz compilation series (Putumayo World Music)

  • Music

    May 24, 2007

    Balkan Beat Box

    Nu Med (JDub)

  • Calendar

    February 8, 2007

    Global Beats, Rhymes, and Life

    Get down with this Mantra

  • Music

    October 19, 2006

    Putumayo CD-Release Party

    Get down with this Mantra

  • Calendar

    September 14, 2006

    Remixed Tradition

    Get down with this Mantra

  • Music

    April 20, 2006

    Congo Square's Miami Debut

    Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! leaven America with Africa

  • Music

    January 12, 2006

    Our Little Corner of the World

    Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! leaven America with Africa

  • Music

    February 24, 2005

    Afro Roots World Music Festival

    Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! leaven America with Africa

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2004

    Shining Moments

    Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! leaven America with Africa

  • Music

    January 1, 2004

    Are You Experienced?

    This year age triumphed over youth in world music

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2003

    Krazy for Klezmer

    The sound of Yiddish culture is called klezmer, as this multiday fest proves

  • Music

    May 15, 2003

    Raw and Uncooked

    King Sunny Ade's early-Eighties "crossover" recordings still retain their power

  • Music

    April 24, 2003

    Elephant Talk

    Bigger-than-thou Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is bulletproof, too

  • Music

    March 27, 2003

    Glorious Gamelan and Jaipongan Jive

    They got the beat, Indonesians

  • Music

    September 5, 2002

    Music from the Morning of World Music

    The good, the bad, and the boring on re-released Nonesuch Explorer Series

  • Music

    July 4, 2002

    Meet Me at the Oasis

    The Vive La World tour treks to Miami

  • Music

    May 2, 2002

    Ferocious Rhythm

    Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain put the beat in world beat

  • Music

    April 4, 2002

    Lee Scratch Perry, Various Artists

    Jamaican E.T. (Trojan Records), Mondo India (Mondo)

  • Music

    May 10, 2001

    Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

    Liberation Afrobeat, Vol.1
    Ninja Tune

  • Music

    April 12, 2001

    All Roads Lead to the Rom

    Flamenco and Indian kathak styles fused

  • Music

    December 21, 2000

    Various Artists

    The Journey of Chris Strachwitz, Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: 1960-2000 (Arhoolie Records)

  • Music

    September 21, 2000

    Sabah Habas Mustapha and the Jugala All Stars

    So La Li (Omnium)

  • Music

    August 17, 2000

    Totó Rows Ashore

    Yes, there are drums in Colombia

  • Music

    June 15, 2000

    Randy Armstrong

    Dinner on the Diner (Ellipsis Arts)

  • Music

    April 27, 2000

    A Percussion Jam with Plenty of Masala

    Zakir Hussain performs with the Masters of Percussion

  • Music

    March 9, 2000

    Femi Kuti

    Shoki Shoki (MCA/Universal)

  • Music

    September 16, 1999

    Border Mixology

    Everybody polka

  • Music

    May 13, 1999

    Best Band From Another Planet

    Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

  • Calendar

    February 25, 1999

    Road Roots

    Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

  • Calendar

    August 13, 1998

    Global Rhythms

    Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

  • News

    August 3, 1995

    Nightclub Jitters

    Flip Side

  • Music

    January 12, 1995

    The World in a Box

    Building bridges from foreign cultures to the U.S. marketplace

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