"Fiery Balkan brass, throbbing funk grooves, Gypsy accordian wizardry, and virtuoso jazz chops: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. These nine musicians have created an acoustic mash-up of Balkan and Gypsy sounds with North American music, weaving the gospel, funk, dub, jazz, and Latin influences of New York's neighborhoods seamlessly into a Balkan brass setting and always "delivering a great time." -The New York Times

FOUR SHOWS THIS SPRING:

Slavic Soul Party! plays Ellington: the Far East Suite (MAR 28)

Slavic Soul Party! plays Markovic: Hani Rumba (APR 25)

Slavic Soul Party! plays Deerhoof (MAY 23)  

Slavic Soul Party! plays themselves: All Originals (JUN 27) 

"The audience is close enough to see every minute detail, every facial expression, and every flash of the eye. The playful blurring of the audience-performer line completely absorbs. At Joe’s Pub, I am." -Garnet Henderson, New York, NY 

Read Full Review Here

See the Company back on our intimate stage in April as they Premeire "TAKE Dance's Somewhere Familiar Meoldies" Tickets are available for April 12 & 13

Congrats to the GLOBALFEST CREW!

For some context and history of what we begrudgingly call “world music” and honestly of the music industry as a whole, I would recommend this Village Voice article:  Why “World Music” Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore: What I Learned At APAP

And if you couldn’t make it to globalFEST this year, definitely take a listen to the NPR Music All Songs Considered show dedicated to globalFEST along with some videos and full music sets of all the artists– it’s also featured heavily on the NPR music app and it’s a lot of fun!

·         New York Times: World Music Informed by The Past and Fiery In The Here and Now

"Over the last decade Globalfest has presented 21st-century world music as an accelerating fusion, a recombinant free-for-all of local traditions meeting ideas and technologies from afar. It's a realistic view of how musicians work; very few are purists. And some hybrids have grown durable enough to feel like traditions  of their own." -Jon Pareles

·         NPR Music “All Songs Considered”: Discoveries From GlobalFEST 2013

"I want to say this about globalFEST...the range of ages, not just of the performers, and the range of faces and characters and people from every walk of life in the audience just thrills me...it's so promising, so hopeful...globalFEST is everywhere, all over the map, and I love that. You really feel like you're in a community." - Bob Boilen

·         NBC New York: GlobalFEST Tenth Anniversary

"We spoke with Bill Bragin, one of the co-producers of GlobalFEST, an eclectic multi-stage music festival that welcomes artists of various backgrounds and popularity to its showcase every January at Webster Hall. From Malian folk-pop to bombastic marching bands, the tenth anniversary of the festival welcomed thousands of visitors to celebrate the vibrancy of the international music scene."-Oresti Tsonopoulos

·         New York Daily News: GlobalFest 2013: A World of Music Comes to New York from Mali to Spain to Iran to the US

"For the 10th year, the city will host Globalfest, America's best-curated nexus of sounds from around the planet...Careers in America can be launched this way. The artists showcased at Globalfest often go on to become the country's most talked-about stars from far-flung locales."

·         The Hollywood Reporter: New York’s Jazzfest and GlobalFEST Cross-Pollinate, Make Beautiful Music Together

"The cross-pollination of world music and jazz is clearly a positive -- as the tastes and sensibilities of many promoters easily overlap. As a result, artists showcased at either festival could end up onstage at Bonnaroo, Coachella or Pitchfork, infiltrate jazz festivals across North America, or simply play at the local community arts center near you"-Mitch Myers

·         Village Voice: GlobalFEST – Webster Hall – 1/13

“...globalFEST played host to more strong female headliners than ever before...Earth Mother energy was pervasive...This was also the most conceptually balanced roster of talent I recall seeing at any Global Fest. Moving from room to room throughout the evening you could often sense one performer's key qualities instructively illuminating another's.”

·         Star Ledger: GlobalFEST 2013 New York Program Help To Bridge Between Performers Concert Halls

"This is Globalfest's 10th anniversary, and it is now its own nonprofit organization. It has established a fund to help world-music performers mount tours across North America and has spawned additional showcases at South by Southwest and Bonnaroo. From its beginnings as an ad hoc one-night event, GlobalFEST the organization is helping to bridge the gap between world-music performers and concert halls."

More GlobalFEST 2013 Coverage:

·         NPR Music Blog: They Sing, He Draws(Feature on Michael Arthur)

·         Brooklyn Vegan: GlobalFEST 2013 in Pics & Videos (Oliver Mtukudzi, Fatoumata Diawara, Mucca Pazza, Kayhan Kalhor & More)

·         Village Voice: Why “World Music” Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore: What I Learned At APAP [Great interview with Shanta Thake]

·         Le Figaro: Les Musiques Du Monde Au GlobalFEST de New York

·         RFI Musique: GlobalFEST, Musiques D’Ailleurs A New York

·         Time Out New York: Critics Pick

·         New Yorker: Goings On About Town

·         Wall Street Journal: Ballads and Block Parties

·         Wall Street Journal: The Jazz Scene: Conference Calls, Brass Bands, Free Thinkers

·         New York Times: Coastal Sounds, A Bass Thump From Up North

·         New York Daily News: The Top 10 Picks in Music

·         DNA Info: GlobalFEST Brings International Grooves To Webster Hall

·         AM New York: Weekend Picks

CONGRATS TO THE JOE'S PUB ALUMS WHO RECEIVED 2013 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS!

Ute Lemper
(Upcoming: Feb 1-2, 2013)
(2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)

Elizabeth Mitchell
(2008, 2010)

Amadou & Mariam
(Aug 8, 2005)

Carolina Chocolate Drops
(Jan 12, 2008)

Luther Dickinson
(June 5/6, 2006; May 5, 2009; May 14, 2012)

Shemekia Copeland
(Jan 10, 2012)

Ruthie Foster
(April 13, 2004; April 13, 2010)

Steep Canyon Rangers
(Feb 15, 2009; Jan 15, 2010; Mar 15-17, 2011; Mar 29, 2012)

Dailey & Vincent
(Feb 17, 2009; Feb 2, 2011)

Lila Downs
(Nov 7, 2001; Aug 14, 2002)

Bobby Sanabria
(Nov 13, 2012; June 2, 2008)

Luciana Souza
(2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012)

Jamey Johnson
(Sept 8, 2010)

Eric Church
(Nov 2, 2010)

Eric Paslay
(June 12, 2012)

The Civil Wars
(Feb 15, 2011)

Little Big Town
(Apr 4, 2002; Aug 1, 2012)

Dierks Bentley
(Mar 25, 2010; Oct 20, 2010; Sept 13, 2012)

Robert Glasper
(Jan 13, 2006; Apr 6, 2007)

Estelle
(Feb 21, 2008)

Miguel
(Feb 8-9, 2011; July 31, 2012)

Adele
(Mar 17-18, 2008)

Janelle Monae
(Apr 9-10, 2010)

The Avett Brothers
(Aug 13, 2005)

Anoushka Shankar
(Oct 27, 2005)

Rachel Maddow
(Dec 2, 2012)

Janis Ian
(Apr 19, 2005; Mar 14, 2006)

Renée Fleming
(May 19, 2005)

Come spend New Years Eve with the hilarious Sandra Bernhard 

Two shows On December 31st at 9:00pm & 11:00pm!

 Get your tickets at www.joespub.com or 212.967.7555

A TRIBE CALLED RED 

Electric pow wow club beats from Native American DJ Crew joined by live pow wow singers 

CHRISTINE SALEM  

Maloya rebel blending sounds of the Indian Ocean with African rhythms

FATOUMATA DIAWARA
Mali's powerful rising Wassoulou star   

KAYHAN KALHOR + ERDAL ERZINCAN

Riveting Persian and Turkish improvisations by masterful duo

LA SANTA CECILIA

Gutsy vocals and roaring accordion fuel a powerful pan-Latin alt-pop hybrid 

LA SHICA

Nuevo Flamenco voice and dance meets funk-tinged rock

LO'JO

Polyglot pioneers of border defying music from elsewhere and everywhere

MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT  

Native American and Appalachian roots commune with the poetry of William Blake

MUCCA PAZZA  
Circus punk marching band with a mischievous brass-band heart

OLIVER MTUKUDZI
Zimbabwe's legendary godfather of Afropop

PARNO GRASZT
High-energy Hungarian Roma music and dance

STEPHANE WREMBEL AND HIS BAND

Virtuosic French jazz manouche 

Check out globalFEST concert previews in The New York Times and Brooklyn Vegan!

Join us in celebration of globalFEST's 10th anniversary as a groundbreaking 1-night, 3-stage, 12-band international music festival and as a year-round, non-profit organization serving global music artists, audiences, and the live music industry.