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July 2016

Jul 11, 2016
What defines Boston’s culture? There’s Marathon Monday and Head of the Charles; Harvard and MIT; the MFA and the Freedom Trail; Fenway Park and the Garden. Businessman-turned-philanthropist and...

June 2016

Jun 30, 2016
Tanzanian band Jagwa Music, who have long championed mchiriku music on the streets of Dar es Salaam, are set to tour the USA for the first time in September and October. The band will tour the US as...

April 2016

Apr 13, 2016
The Connectivity of Culture: Innovating in Cultural Diplomacy Evan Ryan April 13, 2016 Rich Cho, the general manager of the Charlotte Hornets basketball team, high-fives female basketball players in...

March 2016

Mar 21, 2016
Photo Credit: Chris Van Goethem By Jane E. Goodman When I got a call last spring from the Center Stage program, I never imagined that it would lead me to drop (well, postpone) everything I was working...

November 2015

Nov 19, 2015
ISLAMABAD: There seems to be a conscious effort to push underground acts above the waters of obscurity. After an impressive Coke Studio debut that saw the band in the mainstream for the first time...
Nov 19, 2015
“We would like to dedicate this performance to victims of terrorism everywhere, be they in Paris, Baghdad, Beirut – wherever.” Those were the first words from the vocalist for the band Red Blood Cat...
Nov 01, 2015
I attended Sauti Za Busara Festival in Zanzibar in February where I met Msafiri Zawose, a renown traditional Gogo musician. It was his voice and the traditional Gogo music tune that drew me towards...

August 2015

Aug 19, 2015
The article below is an English translation courtesy of Google Translate. The original is available here. A great experience that our artists will not soon forget. We bet the best for them while...
Aug 17, 2015
The article below is an English translation courtesy of Google Translate. The original is available here. "Center Stage" is a program of the US Department of State (Bureau of Educational and cultural...

July 2015

Jul 05, 2015
It’s been a long and formidable first six months of the year for music. Some mainstream artists returned to the music fold while their supremely talented indie counterparts continued with their own...