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Joe's Pub Announces Its 10th Anniversary Celebration
New York City nightclub Joe’s Pub will celebrate its 10^th anniversary with over 300 musical and theatrical performances, including a presentation of the rock musical, Hair, directed by Diane Paulus, as well as director Sam Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse.

Juanes And Miguel Bosé To Join Ingrid Betancourt In Paris Concert
On July 20, Juanes and Miguel Bosé will join Ingrid Betancourt for a concert in Paris to demand the release of all remaining hostages in Colombia and an end to guerrilla violence in the country.

Cheng Yu And The Silk String Quartet To Perform At London's Royal Opera House
This month, London's Royal Opera House will present a theatre production of Monkey: Journey to the West. To be featured in the orchestra are Chinese musician Cheng Yu, along with members of The Silk String Quartet.

Taj Mahal's 40th Anniversary Tour To Coincide With Release of Maestro
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal will embark on a nationwide tour in the final months of 2008 in support of his latest effort, Maestro.

Juan Luis Guerra’s La Travesia Tour Kicks Off With A Sold-Out Arena In Miami
The first major U.S. tour in over a decade from the world’s most renowned tropical music artist, Guerra’s La Travesia Tour will see the multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winning superstar perform this week.

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Dan Storper
In 1993, Dan Storper founded the Putumayo label— a perennial clearinghouse for dozens of popular world music collections.

Seun Kuti
There’s something spooky about Seun Kuti’s live performances. When the youngest son of legendary Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti launched a brief North American debut tour in June and July 2007, you could hear jaws hitting the floor as he conjured the ghost of his late father.

Bostich + Fussible
With Tijuana Sound Machine, Nortec Collective's Bostich + Fussible fire up their first album as a duo, expanding on their genre-busting, border-crossing sound.

Buju Banton

There’s a controversy that’s been dogging Buju Banton ever since he recorded the infamous single “Boom Bye Bye” as a teenager. Now older and wiser but no less a rebel, the Grammy-nominated reggae star holds forth at his studio compound in Kingston to discuss the sins of the past and the promise of the future, and reveals a vivid glimpse of his more human side as a devoted family man.

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