Alverno
Presents 07/08 Season
Global Union
Global
Union - a free festival of world music and culture
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Saturday
& Sunday
September 15 & 16
Noon -7 p.m.
Humboldt
Park Band Shell
3000 S. Howell Ave., corner of Oklahoma, Milwaukee
Global Union is back for 2007! After receiving incredible reviews and loads of thanks and praise from the community, we've decided to bring this FREE festival of world music and culture back to Milwaukee's beautiful Humboldt Park in Bay View this September. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
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.
Artist Line-up, Saturday, September 15
Saturday's artist bios.
1:00 p.m. – 17 Hippies (Germany) - http://www.17hippies.de/
2:30 p.m. – Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le Quartet (Vietnam) - http://www.huongthanh.com/
4:00 p.m. – Lekan Babalola (Nigeria) - http://www.myspace.com/lekanbabalolamrbongo
5:30 p.m. – Zemog, El Gallo Bueno (Puerto Rico/NYC) - http://zemogelgallobueno.com/
Artist Line-up, Sunday, September 16
1:00 p.m. – Haale (Iran) - http://www.haale.com/
2:30 p.m. – Ismail Lumanovski & The NY Gypsy All-Stars (Macedonia) – http://ismaillumanovski.com
4:00 p.m. – Roberto Rodriguez & Maurice El Medioni (Cuba/Algeria)
5:30 p.m. – Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast) – http://dobetgnahore.com
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made possible in part by:
Additional Support Provided by:
The official beer of
Global Union
Media Partners:
Bay View Compass
Community Partners:
African World Festival
American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee-Wisconsin Chapter
Transportation provided
by:
