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A Rare Chance for Rare Grooves

If you’re interested in kicking off Black History Month this year with some of the rarest African music that’s ever made it’s way to Toronto, then you’re not going to want to miss Kinobe at ...

30 of Our Favourite Albums from 2011

There was so much great music released in 2011 and we couldn’t possibly fit it all in, but here’s 30 of our favourites. It would be great to keep the conversation going, I’m sure there ...

Tumbling Into A Second Season!

Tumbling into Light, the multidisciplinary, multimedia production that Small World helped present last year, is returning to grace the stage of the Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront this week. A remarkable and ambitious telling of the ...

African Musical Royalty Comes to Toronto

  Batuki Music Society presents:BASSEKOU KOUYATÉ & NGONI BA   Mali’s Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba have deep roots in the griot tradition. The ngoni drives the band’s energetic live performances. When four of them ...

Even before Sly and Robbie coined the term Electro Reggae for their 1986 Taxi Gang LP release, they had begun experimenting with dissonant, electronic sounds. Random, computer-generated...

Dubstep And Beyond: The Electro Reggae Connection To World Music

Even before Sly and Robbie coined the term Electro Reggae for their 1986 Taxi Gang LP release, they had begun experimenting with dissonant, electronic sounds. Random, computer-generated…

NIYAZ; Sufi Mysticism & Trance Electronica

By any measure, Niyaz has come very far, very fast. The trio’s 2005 debut featured a convincing blend of Sufi mysticism and trance electronica, and quickly established them as a standout ensemble in a very ...

Celebrated Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma plays emotive compositions in beautiful tones on the oud to major audiences across the Middle East, stirring musical reflections on human realities in US-occupied Iraq...

Naseer Shamma & the Music of Resistance

Celebrated Iraqi musician Naseer Shamma plays emotive compositions in beautiful tones on the oud to major audiences across the Middle East, stirring musical reflections on human realities in US-occupied Iraq…

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