List of News Articles

Rango in Abu Dhabi - 10.03.2010

Rango will be amongst a top quality line-up of World Music artists appearing in Abu Dhabi on 22-24 April at the WOMAD festival. Check out our What's On page for more details or visit www.womad.org   This will be the second WOMAD festival in Abu Dhabi, set in one of the most fantastic locations in the World, Abu Dhabi's golden beach. This free festival attracted over 80,000 visitors last year and is set to grow considerably this year.     In addition, Rango will spend the...

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AAA @ ROH - 04.03.2010

The Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden commence their "Voices" season on 9 July with Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali followed by Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble on 10 July and Rango on 16 July.       ...

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Spiro, reviews from recent live shows. - 24.02.2010

read the four star review of the Anvil Basingstoke show in the Financial Times via this link   http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9736f34-209c-11df-9775-00144feab49a.html   and read the four star review of the Pleasance, Edinburgh show in The Scotsman via this link   http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Gig-review-Spiro-.6109491.jp   and one from Band on the Wall, Manchester   http://nowthenmanchester.blogspot.com ...

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Etran Finatawa new album "Tarkat Tejje/Let's Go" - 20.01.2010

Riverboat Records is proud to announce the release of the third studio album from the spellbinding Etran Finatawa, who play their own brand of desert blues combining both Touareg and Wodaabe musicians from Niger. Follow the links below to download the album, press release and high resolution images. Please contact press@worldmusic.net with any further enquiries or feedback.Click here to download the albumClick here to read more about Etran FinatawaEtran Finatawa will be touring...

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17 Hippies to headline Rhythms of the World festival - 30.11.2009

Rhythms of the World in Hitchin are the first of the UK summer festivals in 2010 to book Germany's 17 Hippies, recognising the huge impact they made here during summer 2009. Watch out for further announcements of bookings at a number of other great UK events.   ...

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