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Global Gig Guide
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Please join Gemma Dempsey each week as she virtually tours the world in search of interesting festivals and concerts. You may have heard of some of the events that she discovers, while others will be totally new to your ears. Why not make it your guide to global music events - and keep that passport handy - you may be tempted to turn the virtual into reality!
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Great Escape to Brighton begins May 15th!!
(Gemma Dempsey) 2008-05-13 16:22
RECENT SHOWS
Sasquatch, Lightning In A Bottle and The Great Escape
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Finally recovered from another Coachella! Now its time to heard to Sasquatch and Lightning In A Bottle in the US and to the UK for The Great Escape …
London, Switzerland and Spain
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GGG goes Dot to Dot, Africa in Switzerland and Rocket in Spain…
Green Music in Dublin, Love Music - Hate Racism in London
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What does Green mean to you? Eco friendly products? Cheese? Grass? How about music and Ireland!
Triptych, Stagecoach and Bang Face
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Hello fellow festival friends, if you want to hear rather than read about these groovy events around the world, you can hear it as a mini podcast on KCRW.com or I Tunes – but as you are here please read on…
Bent in the US and Ether in the UK and US
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This week GGG visits festivals that celebrate music - but not quite as we know it …
Latin, Jazz and Le Printemps de Bourges
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GGG Goes to the UK for latin and jazz and to France for Le Printemps de Bourges… HI I’m Gemma Dempsey, and thanks for joining me on KCRW’s Global Gig Guide for yet another virtual tour of music festivals around the world.
French Alps, Austria and Australia
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HI I’m Gemma Dempsey and welcome to another excursion with KCRW.com’s Global Gig Guide.
SXSW
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Gemma was living the Global Gig Guide at SXSW, hence we are re-running last weeks' Guide here. If you'd like to see what she was up to in Austin click here....
Miami, Australia and the UK
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Hi and welcome to another edition of The Global Gig Guide – this week we’re heading to sunny Miami for the Winter Music Conference and we’ll check out not one but two Easter weekend celebrations on opposite sides of the world – one in the UK and the other down under in Australia.
NY, Australia and St Patrick’s Day
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This week we’ll check out the Speak Up event in New York, the
Playground Weekender in Australia as well as some St Patrick’s Day
shenanigans on both sides of the pond.
SXSW, London, Australia and the US
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This week we’ll be heading to Austin Texas for SXSW, to London for the Word Festival, to Australia for WOMAdelaide and finally back to the US for Langerado.
UK, France and Australia
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Hi I’m Gemma Dempsey and welcome to another edition of The Global Gig Guide. This week we’ll head to the UK for Consequences, to France for Vielles Charrus and GeNeriq, to Australia for the Future Music Festival as well as some updates on whose headlining where later in the year…
UK, Australia, San Francisco and Tennessee
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This week we'll hear about the White Stripes and the Royal Ballet in London, the African Soul Rebels tour in the UK, Noise Pop in San Francisco, St Jerome's Laneway in Australia and the line-up to Tennessee's Bonnaroo has just been announced; Led Zepplin is involved but not quite as you would expect…
Tibet House in NY, Salsa in Switzerland, Heat and Coachella in CA and Soundsplash in NZ
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This week we’ve got news about, The Tibet House Concert in New York, a Salsa Festival in Switzerland , California’s Heat and Coachella Festival and Soundsplash in New Zealand.
Best of 2007
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This is Gemma Dempsey host of the Global Gig Guide – now I don’t know about you but I am pretty exhausted after a year of global gigging, so I’m taking a break til’ the New Year.
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Gemma Dempsey
Manager of KCRW's online Music Channel; writer and producer of The Global Gig Guide; Producer, The Treatment.
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