Tonight at Webster Hall, 12 bands converge on three separate stages for the 12th annual globalFEST—the most epic world music festival in North America. The multi-continent wintertime soiree highlights a diverse […]
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Since last seeing Vieux Farka Touré—son of legendary Malian guitar player Ali Farka Touré, at Summerstage in 2008—he has emerged as one of today's leading exponents of African music, with his crisp
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The fourth edition of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival returns this week, with its now-familiar eclectic mix of musical events spread across the Lincoln Center campus and beyond. As in
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SubCulture, the new subterranean performance space on the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette, officially opened its doors Monday night with an invite-only concert that showcased its eclectic booking policy, ranging
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by Zoë Gorman Before extremists began taking over the north of the African nation of Mali and proclaimed a jihadist state, Mali granted more record-label contracts than any country in
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"Music is always in motion. You can't catch it, like matter. Matter is dead. Music is life." – Stephane Wrembel The week after I moved to Park Slope 10 years
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Jenny Scheinman, 9/27/11For those who haven't heard, my local bar/music venue – Barbes – is turning 10 this week, with packed bills every night that run the gamut from classical,
by Nicholas Fernandez Photo courtesy of ReginaCarter.com In some ways, Friday night's Regina Carter set at the Jazz Standard felt like an episode of This American Life: the music was
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"Ladino will die soon. There are currently less than 200,000 people worldwide who speak it on a daily basis, and they are all 60,70, 80 years old. But, it can
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