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Balkan Music Star Goran Bregovic Kicks-off the 2011/12 World Music series at...
Legendary composer, traditional musician, world music and rock star are just a few ways to describe the madness and genius of the Sarajevo-born musical icon of the Balkans, Goran Bregovic. Loved by...
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World of music mourns death of Jagjit Singh
Mumbai: Well known singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle Monday mourned the death of one of their own – renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh who passed away at a hospital after suffering a...
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Malian Sensation Bassekou Kouyate Comes to Toronto!
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba with opening act Daniel Nebiat are set to perform at the Great Hall this November 27 at 8:00 pm. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Photo by Eduardo G. Magaña...
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World Musicians Recruitment Project invites musician to Chapter Arts Centre
WELSH music charity Live Music Now Cymru/Wales, with some help from Venezuelan Carlos Chirinos, is seeking the best of world music talent. Young world musicians from Wales are invited to an open...
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FELA! The Musical Blows Away Toronto Audiences (& Small World has you covered...
The superlatives for FELA! just keep on coming. Not often I get to use sophisticated Broadway terminology like ‘BOFFO!’ but this is really something special. Fantastic staging, great performances...
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The Top 5 Reasons Why You CAN’T Miss Minor Empire On Nov. 4
There are lots of compelling reasons to come out to see and hear Minor Empire on Friday November 4th, but we’re gonna break it down for you and give you the top five: 1. Since their sold out,...
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Naseer Shamma & the Music of Resistance
Naseer Shamma performing at Festival du Monde Arabe in Montreal.(Image courtesy of the Festival du Monde Arabe) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Magnificent Strings, featuring Naseer...
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NIYAZ; Sufi Mysticism & Trance Electronica
By any measure, Niyaz has come very far, very fast. The trio’s 2005 debut featured a convincing blend of Sufi mysticism and trance electronica, and quickly established them as a standout ensemble in a...
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Dubstep And Beyond: The Electro Reggae Connection To World Music
(OPENPRESS) November 9, 2011 — Even before Sly and Robbie coined the term Electro Reggae for their 1986 Taxi Gang LP release, they had begun experimenting with dissonant, electronic sounds. Random,...
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African Musical Royalty Comes to Toronto
Batuki Music Society presents:BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ & NGONI BA Mali’s Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba have deep roots in the griot tradition. The ngoni drives the band’s energetic live...
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Tumbling Into A Second Season!
Tumbling into Light, the multidisciplinary, multimedia production that Small World helped present last year, is returning to grace the stage of the Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront this week. A...
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30 of Our Favourite Albums from 2011
There was so much great music released in 2011 and we couldn’t possibly fit it all in, but here’s 30 of our favourites. It would be great to keep the conversation going, I’m sure there are plenty of...
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A Rare Chance for Rare Grooves
If you’re interested in kicking off Black History Month this year with some of the rarest African music that’s ever made it’s way to Toronto, then you’re not going to want to miss Kinobe at Lula Lounge...
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Creator of ‘El Sistema’ orchestras a national hero in Venezuela for inspiring...
CARACAS, Venezuela — In the front row of the audience, an elderly man wrapped in a heavy coat listens intently to a youth choir, then stands and applauds enthusiastically. The teenage musicians crowd...
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World on a musical string – by Murray Bradwell
Violinist Warren Ellis from Australian band Dirty Three performing at WOMADelaide 2012. Picture: Rob Sferco Source: The Australian TWENTY years have passed since the first WOMAD, scheduled as part...
View ArticleRough Beats Festival – Yorkshire Dales
The Rough Beats festival is one not to be missed. This small independent music festival in the stunning Yorkshire Dales and their stellar lineup this year includes such artists as Azealia Banks, Django...
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Singapore is like world music – By Sheela Narayanan – tabla!
Purbayan Chatterjee has a soft spot for Singapore even though his last performance here was in 2006. The master sitar player told tabla! over the telephone that when he was younger and living in...
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Singapore Produces the World’s First Classical and Pop Music Album Created...
Singapore produces the world’s first classical and pop music album using only an iPad, all done through a single individual to replicate the sounds of an orchestra. Today, local Singaporean, Ian Low,...
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World-famous Anoushka Shankar to play the Abu Dhabi Festival – Maey El Shoush
The history of the migration of gipsies from India to Spain during the Middle Ages has today become one of the dominant influences of the Grammy-nominated Indian sitarist Anoushka Shankar’s new album...
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Paul Simon documentary revisits Graceland controversy – by Guy Dixon
The accordion starts pumping a rhythmical stomp, like a hurdy-gurdy in the South African brush. The notes, played by Forere Motloheloa and now one of the most recognized snatches of music of the past...
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