For Global Music Month, fifteen world music presenters join forces in a virtual music festival on globalmusicmonth.org from August 29 through October 1, 2020.
Countries & Bands
These are culture groups, not necessarily the location of the band. For example, Banda de los Muertos is a Mexican banda band from Brooklyn. Oy Vey!
Africa
Angola
- Vivalda Dula
vivaldadula.com
Cameroon
- Natu Camara
Mali
- Balla Kouyate & Yacouba Sissoko
Caribbean
Haiti
- Agoci Band
Compa
Brooklyn, NYC
agoci.net - Lakou Mizik
Racine (Haitian folk music)
Europe
France
- Paris Combo
North America
Indigenous
- Wisconsin Dells Singers (Ho-Chunk)
Honduras
- Nohe & Sus Santos
Santa Fe, New Mexico
noheysussantos.com
Mexico
- Banda de los Muertos
Banda, Mexican brass band
New York City
South America
Argentina
- Sofía Viola
Latin jazz
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brazil
- Nation Beat
Maracatu Brazilian Carnival rhythms of Pernambuco
New York City
Colombia
- Palo Cruza’o
Llanero folk music of the Colombian plains
Latin Grammy for Best Folk Album (2016)
Pan-American
- LADAMA
Barquismeto, Venezuela
Recife, Brazil
Bogotá, Colombia
New York City
ladamaproject.org
Presenters
New York City Presenters:
- World Music Institute, Brooklyn
- Flushing Town Hall of Flushing, Queens
- New York Gypsy Festival at Drom, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Global Presenters:
- Afro Roots Festival, Miami, Florida
- Arts Midwest World Fest, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto, Canada
- BU Global Music Festival/Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- City of Chicago World Music Festival Chicago Chicago, Illinois
- Global Roots Festival/The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- ¡Globalquerque!, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, Bloomington, Indiana
- Madison World Music Festival/Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, Wisconsin
- Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, Illinois
- Pop Montreal, Montreal, Canada
- Seattle Sacred Music & Art, Seattle, Washington
- Small World Festival, Toronto, Canada
- TD Sunfest, London, Canada
- URGNT TRNTO, Toronto, Canada
- West Lafayette Global Fest, Purdue University/West Lafayette, Indiana
