WMI Concerts

A world music extravaganza featuring 12 acts from around the world on three stages: Calypso Rose, the legendary Queen of Calypso; Brooklyn's own psychedelic surf cumbia band Chicha Libre; New Orleans' funky Hot 8 Brass Band; Bollywood's Sufi pop idol Kailash Kher's Kailasa; Barcelona's rumba catalana mestizos La Troba Kung-Fu; swinging French chanson band L & O; Brazil's samba soul innovator Marcio Local; Chicago's Occidental Brothers Dance Band International (highlife/rumba); southern Iranian trance music and dance master Shanbehzadeh; Canadian Inuit vocal experimentalist Tanya Taqag; France's electric Mediterranean dance band Watcha Clan.

Check out our YouTube playlist for the artists' videos.

Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St. betw 3rd and 4th Aves.
Ticketmaster 866 /468-7619
$40
$35 WMI Friends

“a taste of the best in world music”  New York Times

Co-presented with the Public Theater & Acidophilus: Live and Active Cultures  in association with The Bowery Presents

Support has been provided by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy with additional support from the French Music Export Office.
 
WNYC, our media sponsor, will be webcasting live from all three stages on wnyc.org

For further information visit globalfest-ny.org