(Para español, vaya abajo) Ancient musical traditions of China and Syria come together in the collaboration of Gao Hong and Issam Rafea. Gao is a master of the pipa, the Chinese four-stringed lute; Rafea is a master of the oud, or Arabic lute. Both are award-winning...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Mamadou Kelly knows Malian music inside and out, thanks to his origins in Mali’s Niger River Delta – and years spent playing with legends like Ali Farka Toure and Afel Bocoum. A brilliant guitarist and vocalist steeped in the West African...
(Para español, vaya abajo) The band Delgres' name comes from Louis Delgrès, a military officer of African descent who died in Guadeloupe in 1802, fighting Napoleon’s reinstatement of slavery. That powerful history may be the undercurrent of the band’s funky,...
(Para español, vaya abajo) 2018 Lotus Dickey Artist* Molsky's Mountain Drifters are exploring a new sound within traditional Americana. The band features Grammy-nominated Bruce Molsky, a revered Old-Time music ambassador and Berklee College of Music Visiting Scholar,...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Sam Amidon digs through sounds and stories of late 19th- and early twentieth-century American musical culture (ballads, hymns, work songs) and uses them as points of departure for his own melodic explorations. A singer and a...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Lo Còr de la Plana matches six male a cappella voices with the stomping, clapping beat of hand drums. Its Mediterranean roots include Arabic and African influences and Gregorian chant. Singing in the ancient language Occitan, the group...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Orquesta el Macabeo think of themselves as rockeros con guille de salseros – rockers posing as a salsa band. Bent on shaking up the traditions of Puerto Rican salsa pioneers who have preceded them, this 11-member ensemble adds punk, ska, and...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Nicknamed the “Hendrix of Hurdy-Gurdy,” Guilhem Desq breathes new life and innovation into this old-world instrument – a deep-barreled, lute-shaped string instrument whose sound is generated by a the turning of a crank. Desq electrifies this...
(Para español, vaya abajo) Kaumakaiwa grew up on the slopes of the volcano Mauna Kea (which she regards as a an ancestor), and its primordial power was a daily influence. Her tour de force performances offer a glimpse of Hawaiian cultural practices that have been...
(Para español, vaya abajo) James Hill grew up playing folk, jazz, and blues on his ukulele; Anne Janelle played only classical music on her cello. But the duo’s differences are their greatest performance assets. The uke is high, the cello is low; the uke plays short...