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Aug 11, 2019

Edo is the founder of the World Music Collider series taking place in Western MA and oriented towards dance rather than traditional concerts and a partner with Laudable Productions, a creative agency based in Easthampton, Massachusetts in the US.

Edo most recently co-founded Barbes in the Woods, a new global music...


Jul 21, 2019

Rara Bel Poze, a traditional Haitian street band that plays a mix of Haitian traditional music, gospel music, and American music with acoustic instruments along with custom Haitian horns, performing at the 33rd Lowell Folk Festival.

The Lowell Folk Festival takes place each year, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, of the...


Jan 30, 2019

GRAMMY and NAMA nominated, Dawn has worked with musical luminaries Luciano Pavarotti, Phillip Glass, John Cage, Ustad Sultan Khan, and R. Carlos Nakai.  She has toured the world playing Delta Blues with the Soldier String Quartet and Sufi Persian Funk with Sussan Deyhim, and Jazz masters Will Calhoun and Grover...


Oct 4, 2018

The Zhou Family Band plays traditional wind and percussion music that has accompanied birth and death of people in Central-Eastern China for more than 600 years.

Coming from Lingbi, Anhui Province, the Zhou family have been musicians for seven generations, and are bearers of a tradition that represents the this Chinese...


Oct 4, 2018

Jose is the bassist and band leader of Orchesta El Macabeo, a Puerto Rican salsa group created in 2008 in Trujillo Alto and part of their particular sound is based on the fact that the group is made up mostly of musicians who played in rock, punk, ska and reggae groups.

We chatted about the band’s music, his record...