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OUTERINDIA residency at Rich Mix in east London brings India to the UK
Posted on September 27th, 2010 in World Music by Songlines.
OUTERINDIA is a new residency at Rich Mix arts and cultural centre in east London. It is the brainchild of Tamil Londoner Susheela Raman, whose southern Indian roots music formed part of the opening night of OUTERINDIA on September 28. On the last Tuesday of each month, the night will bring South Asian culture to a UK audience through musical, visual and written arts.
The launch night on September 28 features Bengal Baul legend Paban Das Baul, Mimlu Sen presenting her new book The Holy Gatherers – all about the Bauls of Bengal – and Susheela Raman herself with Aref Durvesh, Sam Mills, Vikaash Shankadecha, Johnny Turnbull and Kartik Raghunathan.
Also appearing are Dr Das with Bantu and Ramjac and there will be a screening of a Sufi film by Sadia Shepard. The audience gets to enjoy this musical feast alongside Goan-Keralan cuisine by Moolis.
http://www.richmix.org.uk/aandc_outerindia.htm?
Musicport Festival hits the north east October 22-24
Posted on September 23rd, 2010 in World Music by Songlines.
The eleventh Musicport Festival comes to The Spa in Bridlington, east Yorkshire on October 22-24, bringing a late season journey through world music at an entirely indoor festival.
This year’s line-up includes rising Côte d’Ivoire star Dobet Gnahoré, English folk reinterpreted by the Imagined Village, London Latin roots sextet Alejandro Toledo and the Magic Tombolinos, Chinese flautist Guo Yue, Jah Wobble’s Japanese Dub, Hungarian folk legend Marta Sebestyén, English folk royalty Norma Waterson and Galician bagpipes from the Anxo Lorenzo Band.
The festival – featured in the August/September issue of Songlines – takes place across four stages in the art deco venue The Spa in the Yorkshire seaside town.
Come and visit the Songlines stand at this year’s Musicport Festival.
Megastar Sami Yusuf releases new single for the flood victims of Pakistan
Posted on September 6th, 2010 in World Music by Songlines.
Sami Yusuf may be little known in the West, but the British-born Iranian Azeri is a megastar in the Muslim world, selling more than 7 million albums.
He has now released the new single ‘Hear Your Call’, all profits from which will go to Save the Children to help the victims of the recent flooding in Pakistan.
Save the Children is working in all four provinces of Pakistan hit by the flooding and has already reached 305,000 people with emergency medical care, tents, shelters, food and hygiene kits.
The single ‘Hear Your Call’ can be downloaded through iTunes or directly from the Sami Yusuf website.
www.samiyusufofficial.com/shop
The October 2010 Songlines podcast is now available through iTunes
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 in Songlines Blog by Songlines.
This podcast includes highlights from the October 2010 issue of Songlines (#71) opening with ‘Jai Ho’ by A.R. Rahman, who’s playlist we have this issue. Editor in chief, Simon Broughton, plays an excerpt from the new album by Aynur Rewend on Sony.
Features include: Nigel Williamson on AfroCubism, Simon Broughton on music from Carriacou, Grenada and John Baily on the Afghan rubab. Nathaniel Handy brings you the latest news with the Official UK World Music Album Chart as well as music from Le Trio Joubran and K’Naan. The podcast ends with artists from A.R. Rahman’s playlist, Nagore Sufis and Zap Mama.
The next Songlines podcast, featuring highlights from the November/December issue (#72), will be available from October 15 2010.
