Global Gig Guide

Organica and Lila Downs, Leonard Cohen and STRP

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UCLA Live has some great shows coming up – April 5 Christoph Bull returns for the 10th Anniversary of Organica. Since 1999 this composer and musician has reinterpreted organ music...

The Middle East Rocks, Blue Note 7, Glastonbury

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The Levantine Centre in Los Angeles describes itself as an oasis of peace as it seeks to build a bridge of knowledge and understanding between western and middle eastern cultures...

SXSW in Austin, Coachella at Indio Palm Springs, V Festival in Australia

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KCRW’s SXSW 2009 showcase featured The Boat People & Ida Maria amongst others, & Morning Becomes Eclectic broadcasts live from SXSW with guests Peter, Bjorn & John, PJ Harvey & John Parrish. If you want a break from music...

How Sweet It Is in LA, WMC in Miami, and Snowbombing in Austria!

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GGG goes to LA, NYC and New Zealand!

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This week The Global Gig Guide gives you the skinny on Mariza at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Four Tet and friends at the Rose Centre for Earth and Space – part of New York’s American Natural History Museum, and WOMAD in New Zealand, featuring Fat Freddy’s Drop, Natascha Atlas and Sa Dingding.

Global Gig Guide Aussie Special

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Australia, Sydney, and Mali

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This week we’ll head to Australia for The Falls, Pyramid and Sydney Festivals and to Mali for the Festival Au Desert.

Holiday Gig Guide

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Its December and for many of us that means Christmas, so I’ve got a Californian festival that combines both music and eco friendly gifts; for those bah humbugs amongst we’ll check out the Nightmare Before Christmas in the UK;  Estrella Damm’s Primavera Club in Spain, to Norway for the annual Nobel Peace Prize event and finally down under for the Woodford Folk Festival.

Australia, France and India

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The Global Gig Guide heads to Homebake in Australia; Trans Musicales in France and Live Earth in India.

Belgium, UK, Macedonia and Australia

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This week we’ve got lots on dance festivals to check out – there’s I love Techno in Belgium, The Big Reunion in the UK, Taksirat in Macedonia and Stereosonic in Australia.

Les Inrocks, Green Synergy, and the NOISEFestival

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This week we’re off to France for Les Inrocks, to Ireland for Green Synergy, and the NOISEFestival which takes place virtually everywhere !

Wales, England and Denmark

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We’re off to Wales for Swn, then we’ll cross the border to England for Mencap’s Little Noise sessions and continuing in a westerly direction to Denmark for Sensation. And for those early birds amongst you I’ve got some news about festivals coming in 2009!

Day of the Dead and Tangerine Dream; Gigbeth/Digbeth UK

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The Global Gig Guide checks out The Day of the Dead & Tangerine Dream in LA…Gigbeth in Digbeth UK!

Halloween

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It's October and therefore Halloween is fast approaching, so we’ll check out some ghoulish events in Los Angeles, Honolulu and New Orleans as well as taking a look at the line up for
Neil Young’s Bridge School concert.

London, New York, and Sydney

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This week we’ll be heading to London for the BBC’s Electric Proms and Freeze , to New York for CMJ and to Sydney for Musica Viva.