Nigerian guitar master and singer Soji Odukogbe will perform Saturday during the Berkeley World Music Festival. Photo: Soji Odukogbe Nigerian guitar master and singer Soji Odukogbe will perform Saturday during the Berkeley World Music Festival. Photo: Soji Odukogbe BERKELEY WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL Local artists from diverse musical traditions play at the Berkeley World Music Festival this weekend. The […]
Berkeley World Music Festival
Thomas Mapfumo kicks off Berkeley World Music Festival
Thomas Mapfumo: plays Ashkenaz Friday as part of the Berkeley World Music Festival The pantheon of African musicians who have put their bodies on the line while turning their music into a vanguard force against despotism and corruption includes Nigeria’s Fela Kuti and South Africa’s Hugh Masekela. But no one occupies quite the same role […]
The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
ViBO Simfani, playing at the Berkeley World Music Festival BERKELEY WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL The 11th annual Berkeley World Music Festival is this Sunday. The free festival will feature Bay Area world musicians outdoors and in various cafés from noon to 9 p.m., and a global crafts fair from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., on Telegraph Avenue. […]
It’s a Berkeley world after all as music hits streets, park
The "ferociously grooving" Cuban dance music of Fito Reynoso y su Ritmo y Armonia will be part of the 9th Annual World Music Festival in Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue neighborhood on Saturday June 2 Just as Berkeley starts settling into its pleasingly sleepy summer rhythm, the 9th Annual World Music Festival takes over Telegraph on Saturday, […]