Watch The Film! Film Synopsis: Eleven years ago, a massive undersea earthquake triggered an Indian Ocean tsunami, killing 167,000 people in Indonesia’s Aceh Province. Since then, strict…
From the Archive English composer and producer Brian Eno once said that Nigerian-born master Afro-beat drummer, Tony Allen is “perhaps the greatest drummer ever.” Allen, also…
Words by Maria Bakkalapulo from the archive – first published in 2007. Sitting on a veranda overlooking the Mekong River, Arn Chorn-Pond need only close his…
By Niall Macaulay and Maria Bakkalapulo The more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the USA fear the presidency of Donald Trump. While more than 2,5…
By Maria Bakkalapulo for Miami New Times Spanish-born Alejandra Fierro Eleta is most content surrounded by melodies from bygone days. Inside Gladys Palmera, the massive Latin…
for Songlines Magazine The rain fell on the open-air North Beach Bandshell in Miami, but Houston-based Riyaaz Qawwali ensemble braved the weather. The carpet they sat…
The black-and-white image on TV is of a singer scraping a güiro, with a full Cuban ensemble backing him up. A quintessential Havana scene – but…
Filmore Miami Beach, August 20 Concert Review for Songlines Magazine by Maria Bakkalapulo Afro-Cuban hip-hop pioneers, the Orishas, are back on tour after a seven…
