Globalfest Moves Online, Showcasing World Music Without Boundaries
With 16 bands over four nights, the festival expanded its reach at a time when live music with audiences is in short supply.
Minyo Crusaders performing at Globalfest this week. The event, usually a live showcase in New York City, went online this year.Credit.GlobalFEST
Published Jan. 15, 2021Updated Jan. 17, 2021
Minyo Crusaders set an old Japanese song, from a tradition called minyo, to a Nigerian Afrobeat groove. DakhaBrakha, from Ukraine, roved from Eastern European drones and yipping vocals to something like girl-group rock. Aditya Prakash, from Los Angeles, sang a joyful Hindu devotional over upbeat jazz from his ensemble, sharing its melody with a trombone. Rachele Andrioli, from southern Italy, sang a fierce tarantella accompanying herself with a tambourine and electronic loops of a jaw harp and her voice. Hit La Rosa, from Peru, topped the clip-clop beat of cumbia with surreal lyrics, surf-reverbed guitar
Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Edwin Perez, Elisapie, Nora Brown, Rokia Traoré
Featuring salsa, First Nations music, Appalachian folk and a West African star.
NPR
The Tiny Desk is teaming up with globalFEST this year for a thrilling virtual music festival: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST. The online fest includes four nights of concerts featuring 16 bands from all over the world. From Monday, Jan. 11, through Thursday, Jan. 14, we ll be streaming new performances at 8 p.m. ET on NPR Music s YouTube channel and NPR.org.
Every January, I attend globalFEST at a New York City nightclub and see some of the most fantastic music I ll experience all year. Now, given the pandemic s challenges and the hardening of international borders, NPR Music and globalFEST is moving from the nightclub to your screen of choice and sharing this festival with the world. Each night, we ll present four artists in intimate settings (often behind desks donning globes), and it s all hosted by African superstar Angé
By: Andy Gensler
Angélique Kidjo, who is hosting the 2020 iteration of globalFEST with Tiny Desk Concert Jan. 11 - 14 seen here performing in 2016 at Brooklyn s Prospect Park (Photo by Al Pereira/WireImage)
Angélique Kidjo is the perfect host for 2021 s Tiny Desk Meets
globalFEST, which runs online Jan. 11–14 and features 16 performances from across the world. For one thing, she performed at the inaugural
globalFEST in 2004, which now runs every January and is exquisitely
timed to the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP)
Conference. The confab brings music buyers from performance art centers
and other venues from across the country to New York City looking for
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by Karen Nikos-Rose
December 10, 2020
Being cooped up in your house the next few weeks need not leave you artless. Despite the lack of typical holiday shows that happen this month, you can check out these virtual plays, art shows and even cake decorating events to sooth your art-starved souls. Happy weekend! - The Arts Blog
This blog compiled by UC Davis Media Relations Intern Michelle Villagomez
LACMA contemporary art curator is Art Studio visiting artist this week
This lecture series is organized by the Department of Art and Art History and co-sponsored by the UC Davis College of Letters and Science and the Manetti Shrem Museum