6th Annual globalFEST, January 11, New York, NY

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6th Annual globalFEST – 12 artists from around the world

Sunday, January 11, 2009  7:00 PM
Webster Hall
125 E. 11th Street (between 3rd and 4th Aves)
212-545-7536
$40; $35 World Music Institute Friends

A world music extravaganza featuring 12 acts from around the world on three stages: Calypso Rose, the legendary Queen of Calypso; Brooklyn’s own psychedelic surf cumbia band Chicha Libre; New Orleans’ funky Hot 8 Brass Band; Bollywood’s Sufi pop idol Kailash Kher’s Kailasa; Barcelona’s rumba catalana mestizos La Troba Kung-Fu; swinging French chanson band L Brazil’s samba soul innovator Marcio Local; Chicago’s Occidental Brothers Dance Band International (highlife/rumba); southern Iranian trance music and dance master Shanbehzadeh; Canadian Inuit vocal experimentalist Tanya Taqag; France’s electric Mediterranean dance band Watcha Clan.

(Update, January 7: Brooklyn Qawwali Party will be performing in the place of Femi Kuti who had to cancel his appearance due to illness.)

Co-presented with the Public Theater & Acidophilus: Live and Active Cultures  in association with The Bowery Presents.

Support has been provided by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy with additional support from the French Music Export Office.

WNYC Radio and NPR Music will present a live webcast of globalFEST on WNYC.org. Hosts David Garland, Banning Eyre, and Rob Weisberg will report from the three stages, providing insights and commentary. Log on early to catch a pre-show behind-the-scenes special at 6:00 p.m. Eastern time at http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/118424.

For further information visit www.globalfest-ny.org

Submitted by World Music Institute

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