Now with six solo albums, Jenn began her career with John Mellencamp, meeting the Hoosier rocker in Bloomington, Indiana, where she was in the midst of an all-American swimming career at Indiana University. During her stint with Mellencamp’s band she proved her...
A native of Dakar, Senegal, Maria de Barros lived the first 13 years of her life in Nuakchott, Mauritania in northwest Africa. Her creative heart, however, ultimately lies in the culturally rich Cape Verde; a former Portuguese colony located 350 miles off the coast of...
Nohe & Sus Santos (Nohe and Her Saints) is a four-piece band replete with the musical vibes of Central and North America. Incorporating Alt-Rock en Espanol, Quirky Cumbia, and Pop Grooves (and beyond!), Nohe & Sus Santos delivers a Latinx vibe full of soul,...
Tuvergen Band is a Mongolian Fusion-Folk trio based in Chicago, IL. Each performer brings his own musical tradition to the trio creating a blend of ancient Mongolian and Tuvan melodies with modern sensibilities and idiomatic world music rhythms....
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...