The hasbara brigade strikes again! You always hear about Israeli attempts at media manipulation. Everyone knows it’s...
Folk & World Music
My wife just showed me a post card announcing a most amazing and wonderful modern dance program...
John Martyn may be the greatest English musician you’ve never have heard of, certainly one of the...
Mahmoud Darwish, the greatest living Palestinian poet, died after open heart surgery in Houston. He was 67,...
Thanks to former NPR reporter and former ABC news producer and bureau chief Deb Amos, who forwarded...
A few weeks ago I read that Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir would be performing Sephardic music tonight....
The bodily function that dare not speak its name in the pages of the NY Times Pissed,...
Haaretz just featured a profile of Mira Awad, an Israeli Arab Christian who appears in a new...
KBCS has been playing Tracy Grammer’s cover of The Waking Hour (hear it) in heavy rotation and...
Youssou N’Dour, the Senegalese superstar, has a new album that came out two weeks ago, Rokku Mi...
Great day on Eldridge Street–klezmer musicians (Eldridge Street Project) I wrote a post few weeks ago about...
My Brit friend living in Japan, Michael Furmanovsky, who first introduced me to Alison Krauss (and African...
