Sinan Cem Eroğlu
"Sinan Cem Eroglu is some of the best instrumentalist and the first modern virtuoso of kaval in today's Turkish Folk Music..." - Songlines Magazine - Francesco Martinelli
"There is no doubt that Eroglu performs in all roles with a significant degree of skill that may be considered prodigious." - Songlines Magazine - Michael Galea
Liraz: Fusing Modern Music with Persian Roots
Renowned Israeli-Persian Singer Fusing Modern Music with Her Persian Roots
Lakha Khan: Sufi Master of the Sindi Sarangi, a 17-String Indian Violin
Lakha Khan is a living legend and the undisputed master of the sindhi sarangi and a National award winner and for his contribution to Rajasthani folk music.
Širom: Slovenian Trio Manifest Imagined Folk Music to Create Synergy with Natural World
ŠIROM is a Slovenian acoustic folk trance drone avant-garde experimental band. The music is tied to the natural world with an aspiration to connect the listener to the natural environment.
Chris Eckman: Producer & Co-Founder of Influential Global Label, Glitterbeat Records
From Seattle to Slovenia with Global Music on his mind. Chris is the Co-Founder of Glitterbeat records. The label has been responsible for releasing some of the best Global music of the decade. His work as a producer and musician is also legendary.
Samir LanGus: Gnawa Healing & Trance Music from Agadir, Morocco.
Samir Langus was born and raised in the city of Agadir, Morocco and learned Gnawa from the old masters of Morocco. Gnawa is the southern Moroccan trance music with roots in pre-islamic animist traditions. Samir Langus’ NY band uses traditional instrumentation such as the lute-like Sintir and the large castanet-type Krakebs to accompany its ancient chants, but his approach is resolutely innovative (his first band was called Innov Gnawa). It is an hypnotic, take on this ecstatic, trance-inducing tradition that has enthralled and inspired generations of musicians from around the world.
Farah Siraj: Healing Arabic & Flamenco Music
Farah Siraj balances a career that spans the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Farah has performed at some of the world's most prestigious platforms, including the United Nations, Nobel Prize Hall, the World Economic Forum, The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, & Lincoln Center in New York. Farah represents Jordan annually on United Nations World Peace Day.
Natalia Clavier: Argentinian Medicine Songs
Natalia Clavier is an Argentinian singer, songwriter, DJ, keeper of medicine songs.
Grupo Bongar: Ancestral Sounds from Pernambuco, Brazil
The members are part of the Xambá Nation , located in Olinda , PE . They carry out a work to rescue and disseminate the culture and religion of the Xambá nation through their traditional dance , the coconut , and in their most recent work, the giras de Jurema
Al Bilali Soudan: Live from Timbuktu
Made up of family members and friends, the group's performance is an improvisational tour de force of traditionally based rhythms and scales. The style is known as Takamba.
Simón Mejía
Simón Mejía talks about and performs music from his new record “Mirla” under the moniker Monte. It is an ambient electronic music project in which Simon furthers his exploration of Colombian nature sounds and their role in healing body and soul.
Ghalia Benali
Known as “a maker of her own myths” as described by The New York Times, Ghalia Benali; the Tunisian-Belgian artist started her artistic career in 1992 as a singer, writer, composer, dancer, visual artist, painter, designer & actress.
Luka Kumor of JUJU Sounds
JuJu Sounds collates field recordings and stories about music from all corners of the globe. The peripheral music genres, rhythms and melodies accompanying everyday life, and the practices related to transcendental experiences, initiation and ritual.
Kiran Ahluwalia & Rez Abbasi
Singer-songwriter Kiran Ahluwalia and multifaceted guitarist Rez Abbasi are a real-life couple and music world duo. One of Indian origin, the other Pakistani, they perform love and breakup songs with equal conviction, exhilaratingly mixing Indian rhythms with West African Bluesy riffs, languid Jazz and Indian improv. The result is a merging of elegance and crispness, all with an easy, inviting charm. The music sounds raw and fresh, and yet familiar, a rarity in these times.
DJ Tudo
DJ Tudo aka Alfredo Bello is one of the leading researchers of the Brazilian musical tradition. For over twenty years, he has worked as a musician, producer, DJ and ethnomusicologist and collaborated with artists including Lee Scratch Perry, Gilberto Gil, Adrian Sherwood, Marku Ribas, Mad Professor, Naná Vasconcelos, Otto and many others. In 2008 he started the DJ Tudo project with the release of his first album “Garrafada”. In 2010 he released his second album: ”Nos Quintais do Mundo”, in 2012 a DVD “Nos quintais do Mundo Melhor” and in 2014 his third album “Pancada Motor – Manifesto da Festa” was recorded in different parts of the planet, mixed with the collaboration of Mad Professor, and released worldwide by Far Out Recordings.
Global Music Month
An Online Celebration of International Music From August 29 to October 1, 2020
Meriem Ben Amor
Meriem Ben Amor is a Tunisian-Canadian Singer: A unique voice with "Warm and Ethereal" tone that blends the richness of the eastern ornaments to the softness and clarity of the western music. Meriem is a pluri-disciplinary musician: she sings, plays string instruments and percussion.
Carmen Rizzo
Two-time Grammy Nominee, Producer, Artist, Electronic musician, Technologist and Recording Academy member . Carmen runs his own music label Electrofone Music and is the Senior Artist Relations Manager manager for Native Instruments.
Robert Millis
A sound artist, Fulbright scholar, Guggenheim fellow, and author who’s work often looks at the birth of sound recording, the era of cylinders and talking machines.
