The World Music Festival’s 21 free concerts feature a crowd of international talents—among them hallucinatory Argentine singer-songwriter Juana Molina, generation-spanning Cuban big band Orquesta Akokán, and omnivorous Congolese groove machine Jupiter & Okwess.
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The World Music Festival bounces back
The World Music Festival’s free lineup includes Sidi Touré, Bassekou Kouyaté, and lots more.
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The World Music Festival: Down but not out
Bureaucratic fumbling has diminished the World Music Festival, but its lineup still includes some highly recommendable acts
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Welcome to post-Orlove Chicago
Congolese street band Staff Benda Bilili, who had to cancel a long-in-the-works Pritzker date last year due to visa problems, skip Chicago on their first U.S. tour
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RIP: Music Without Borders
The great world-music series Music Without Borders is missing from the city’s announcement of Millennium Park’s summer programming.
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You won’t believe what happened last week on the Bleader!
A breakdown of all the hijinks and shenanigans on the Bleader last week
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Michael Orlove, director of many city music programs, hired away from Chicago by the NEA
Longtime city music programmer Michael Orlove has been hired by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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City arts staff gone missing—again
Arts staff cut from Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture
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Michael Orlove goes international
Michael Orlove from Cultural Affairs takes his curatorial skills global.
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World-music presenters converge on Chicago
World-music presenters from the midwest gather at the Morse Theater on Tuesday night to plot the year’s offerings.
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Michael Orlove, the missing man
The most glaring omission from New City’s annual Music 45 issue.