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The SXSW of World Music: Womex 2010
It's an all-day, all-night dance and listening party, where old hands and grand dames share space with wild newcomers. It's a business platform where people from remote villages and well-heeled megalopolises meet and discuss how to sustain musical diversity. It's the best place to launch a successful career, whether you're a striking traditional singer from Afghanistan ...
Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans
Christmas Comes Early For Bing Crosby Fans: Bing Crosby Archive Opens Up Vault Once Again New Bing Crosby CD Releases Set For November 9th From Collectors' Choice Music: The Crosby Christmas Sessions (CD) & Bing Sings the Great American Songbook (CD)
Roy Gaines & His Orchestra: "Tuxedo Blues" Streets November 1
Jazz, blues, R&B and soul—legendary guitarist/vocalist/composer Roy Gaines, who has made a name for himself as a versatile master craftsmen playing music beyond category in a career spanning over seven decades, brings his vast wealth of experience all together on Tuxedo Blues. Fronting a full size jazz orchestra, the likes of which is seldom heard these ...
From Tuva to America, Huun Huur Tu Calls to Their Ancestors
The whistling of the high-mountain wind creates eerie overtones and postmodern statement. The repeated thrum of a string against wood and hide turns into a meditative, evocative figure straight from the avant-garde. The descendents of isolated Siberian herdsmen make serious, strangely universal music out of some of the planet's quirkiest acoustics. The Tuvan acoustic quartet Huun ...
Free-Jazz Guitar Pioneer to Be Honored by Hometown
Free-Jazz Pioneer, Miles Davis Sideman Warren “Sonny" Sharrock Gets His Due, Oct. 2, in Ceremony Conducted by Bill Hanauer, Mayor, Village of Ossining; Special Performance by Sons of Sharrock 2010 Marks What Would Have Been Master Guitarist's 70th Birthday WHAT: The Village of Ossining, in conjunction with the family and friends of the late, great guitar ...
John McLaughlin's Out of Print "The Promise" to be Reissued November 2
JOHN McLAUGHLIN: THE PROMISE Now available exclusively at www.Hip-OSelect.com and available to all retailers November 2 John McLaughlin is universally recognized as one of the world's greatest guitarists. His pioneering recordings range from his landmark work with Miles Davis and Tony Williams, his own fusion recordings with The Mahavishnu Orchestra and his dazzling solo work in ...
The Cuban Cowboys' Racy Exile Rock
Spanglish Superheroes of Degeneracy: The Cuban Cowboys' Racy Exile Rock “On stage, I'm The Cuban Cowboy, a superhero of exile and degeneracy!" exclaims singer and songwriter Jorge Navarro. Spitfire Spanglish blazing, Navarro sends the perfect American icon colliding with a whole family's worth of émigré tension, exile, tenderness and lust. “I turn on the accent, I ...
The Sonic Acrobatics of Jienat: A First in World Music
Tundra Songs and Musical Saws beyond the Arctic Circle: Norway's Jienat Has You Surrounded with Arctic Echoes “We could be banging on mammoth skulls and logs millennia ago," modestly exclaims Norwegian multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Andreas Fliflet behind Jienat. “The feeling would be the same." Yet if Jienat got their hands on them, bone and wood ...
Auction to Benefit Alex Chilton Family
Bid on Autographed St. Blues Guitar From the Big Star Concert & Tribute to the Late Alex Chilton On a beautiful night this past Spring in Memphis, many friends, family, and fans gathered for the season opening of Memphis' historic Overton Park Shell, now called Levitt Shell. This special kickoff concert was the highly anticipated homecoming ...
"Take Five" Gala Honors Dave Brubeck
WHAT: “Take Five" honors jazz icon Dave Brubeck in an evening that includes a champagne reception,a concert and a “moveable feast" of offerings from noted Greenwich restaurants. Mr. Brubeck will receive the prestigious Silver Baton award from the Russian National Orchestra (RNO) for his lifetime contributions to cultural diplomacy. The evening benefits the RNO Instrument Fund ...
