Global Union - a free festival of world music and culture September 17, 2006

Global Union - a free festival of world music and culture
Presented by Alverno College
414-382-6000

Saturday and Sunday, September 16 & 17, 1-7 p.m.

Humboldt Park Band Shell
(3000 S. Howell Ave, corner of Oklahoma, Milwaukee).

A celebration of the vibrant kaleidoscope of culture that is Milwaukee in one of Milwaukee County’s most beautiful parks!

World Music has evolved beyond its original meaning of ethnographic field recordings into some of the most wildly creative expression in the cultural arena. Musicians no longer work exclusively within the confines of genre or nationality. Sounds, some previously unimaginable, are available in ways that are without precedent. And artists are free to mix and blend and sample these sounds into a music that can only claim “the world" as its provenance. Artists from Africa, Central Europe, Latin America, East Asia and the Middle East will travel from the far ends of the globe to Milwaukee for a two-day blow-out party that embraces individual expression and global commonality.

Click on the links on website to read the artists' biographies, to listen to audio clips, and to link to their Web sites.

Saturday, September 16
Claudia Calderón 1:00 p.m
Yat-kha 2:30 p.m.
Sara Tavares 4 p.m.
Dengue Fever 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 17
Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar 1 p.m.
Rodrigo y Gabriela 2:30 p.m.
Natacha Atlas 4 p.m.
Kultur Shock 5:30 p.m.

Official Website: http://www.alverno.edu/community_friends/alverno_presents/union.html