Indie Vibes & World Tribes: music, film, travel and...

If the essence of any art, including music, is creative combination, then that’s reason enough to follow world music. I think of it like a g...

It's not like I traveled across the planet just to come to this small regional festival, but it's not like I didn't either. Oppo...

Don’t look now, but sincere heartfelt lyrics may just be making a comeback. Just when you (or I, that is) thought that hip-hop’s mindl...

If you’re a world music fan then you live for creative musical combinations- Cambodian psych-pop, Celtic salsa, Swedish bluegrass, etc...

It’s always been urban legend that handicapped people compensate for it in other ways, sharpening their other capabilities even to the poi...

Sometimes music genres and sub-genres emerge and disappear largely on the basis of the fame of its one or two chief protagonists. If h...

Omar Faruk Tekbilek has been pleasing Western audiences, particularly those of ‘new age’ orientation, for some twenty years with...

Where else could you go and hear Django Rheinhardt music live? KJAZZ kicked off their ‘Wine and Jazz’ Tuesday night music series at Ho...

Which came first, Afro-beat or Cuban music (hold the salsa)? That’s obvious, maybe you say, since so many Cubans came from Africa origi...

This collaboration may not be first Anglo/African supergroup- Ali Farka Toure and Ry cooder did that long ago, not to mention Paul S...