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September 12, 2020:

On We Go



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As you've probably heard, Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, O.J., a great and influential artist who, among many other things, helped inspire some of us of a certain age to explore music beyond our own borders, has left us. But of course the music lives on...



Speaking of which: WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise joins in celebrating Global Music Month this September! Global Music Month is a collaborative online mega-festival featuring content from nineteen festivals and event producers in the US and Canada, most of whom normally present in-person festivals and concerts in the summer and autumn months. Because that's not possible this year they've teamed up to cross-promote online events all this month under the Global Music Month banner.



The full daily schedule for Global Music Month is here.

Here's a highlight from this past week's Global Music Month offerings:
SLAVIC MUSIC MEET: From the URGNT vaults:
The arts organization URGNT presents beautifully shot performances by (in this order) Fosho, Socalled, Alyona Alyona, Moskitto Bar, and Marina Krut - artists who might normally have performed at festivals like Sunfest in London, Ontario (which I had a great time attending last summer) or the Ashkenaz Festival or Small World Music Festival in Toronto:

SLAVIC MUSIC MEET: From the URGNT vaults from URGNT TRNTO LIVE on Vimeo.

You can find out more and watch lots and lots of great live-streamed and archival performances from the nineteen Global Music Month festivals and presenters listed below, all September, at:

http://globalmusicmonth.org/

https://www.facebook.com/globalmusicmonth

https://www.instagram.com/globalmusicmonth/

Global Music Month participating festivals and presenters:

Afro Roots Festival, Miami, FL, USA • Arts Midwest World Fest, Midwest, USA • Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto, Canada • BU Global Music Festival/Boston University, Boston, MA, USA • City of Chicago World Music Festival Chicago Chicago, IL, USA • Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY, USA • Global Roots Festival/The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA • ¡Globalquerque!, Albuquerque, NM, USA • Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, Bloomington, IN, USA • Madison World Music Festival/Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI, USA • NY Gypsy Festival/ Drom, New York, NY, USA • Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL, USA • Pop Montreal, Montreal, Canada • Seattle Sacred Music & Art • Small World Festival, Toronto, Canada • TD Sunfest, London, Canada • URGNT TRNTO • West Lafayette Global Fest Purdue University/West Lafayette, IN, USA • World Music Institute, New York, NY, USA

WFMU and WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise denounce explicit and implicit racism; condemn the culture of white supremacy, which enables the brutalization of black people and other communities of color, and support Black Lives Matter and the movement it stands for.

Here's a link to WFMU's Public Service page with links and info for / related to racial justice issues, coronavirus testing, food and economic assistance, musician aid, voting rights organizations and lots more: https://wfmu.org/psa/.

Also: BRIC has an extensive and regularly updated pandemic crisis resource list on its website with artists, performers etc. in mind but relevant for everyone. See it here: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/resources-artists-during-public-health-crisis.

For a list, with links, of organizations supporting the rights of immigrants and refugees. click here.

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Check out the Transpacific Sound Paradise All-Time African Music Faves Spotify Playlist at http://tiny.cc/tsp-africa. Here's a live performance of one of the gems that's also on our playlist:



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