When San Salvador perform, its six members stand four in a line, the other two facing in at the sides, as if at a family meal, with places open to invite the audience in. The band are Occitan speakers (“In France,” says bandleader Gabriel Durif ruefully, “no one can...
Guatemala’s Doctor Nativo is one of Central America’s most exciting new talents. His music layers Mayan spirituality, social activism, and folk wisdom over a propulsive sound combining reggae, cumbia, hip hop, and pre-Columbian instruments. His debut album, Guatemaya,...
Dwayne (Dopsie) Rubin hails from one of the most influential Zydeco families in the world. Although inspired by tradition, Dwayne has developed his own high-energy style that defies existing stereotypes and blazes a refreshingly distinct path for 21st-century Zydeco...
Crowned “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues'' in 2015, Thornetta Davis, a multi-talented International Singer and Songwriter from Detroit MI is the Winner of over thirty Detroit Music Awards. Thornetta has been exciting and wowing audiences all over the world. Her voice is...
Tatiana Hargreaves, Allison de Groot, and Nic Gareiss play across the seams of sight, sound, and touch through fiddle, banjo, and percussive dance. The trio shares a deep love for melody and gesture learned person-to-person, hand-to-hand, foot-to-foot but also through...
Matixando plays original Latin fusion, blending rock, reggae, blues, funk and a variety of Latin rhythms. Founded in 2011 by David Dávila González in Costa Rica, the music is inspired by love, peace, nature and daily life. Learn more and listen to the music at...
Saraswathi brings with her a legacy of firsts. She is the first Indian woman and Veena artiste to win a Chicago Music Award in its thirty-five-year history, the first Veena artiste to perform as an orchestra member of Disney’s Jungle Book production, and the first...
Yacouba Sissoko was born in Kita, Mali, to a well-known djely family. Djelys for centuries they have been the traditional musicians and keepers of the factual history and fables of past rulers, nobles, social groups and families. The kora was the traditional...
Martha Redbone is a Native & African-American vocalist/songwriter/composer/educator. She is known for her unique gumbo of folk, blues, and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn....
Irish music accordion virtuoso Jimmy Keane and the remarkable bouzar player and vocalist Pat Broaders, comprise Bohola, Irish music's newest "supergroup" as penned by The Irish Herald. Bohola play a driving, muscular, and yet very emotive style of Irish music with...