Monday, November 25
The final Monday of every month, we present Global Village at the Savannah Music Festival, a monthly concert series showcasing top world music artists and groups who have appeared at the prestigious annual festival that takes place each spring in Savannah, Georgia.
This time, in conjunction with the November Music of Mongolia feature, we present Anda Union. Formed in 2003 in the capital of Inner Mongolia, the nine-member ensemble represents a number of Mongolian ethnic groups, performs on wide range of traditional Mongolian instruments, and draws on the deep, rich, and varied wealth of traditional Mongolian folk forms. Studying and performing from childhood, the members of Anda Union have become some of the finest preservers and purveyors of the music of the Mongolian steppes appearing today.
Tuesday, November 26
In conjunction with the November Music of Mongolia feature, Global Village celebrates a national holiday in Mongolia, Mongolian Republic Day, with a program devoted to both traditional and contemporary Mongolian music. We’ll hear selections from Mongolian groups Hani Union, Anda Union, and Hanggai; and musical tribute to Marco Polo; and multi-national groups with Mongolian artists and influences, including Equus, Mathias Duplessey & the Three Violins of the World, Violons Barbares, Mongolian-Persian ensemble Sedaa, Buryati-Lithuanian group UDU, ukulele player Daniel Ho with the Grasslands Ensemble, and Mongolian singer Urna with the Polish group Kroke.
Wednesday, November 27
Global Village has some mind-bending sounds this time in a show devoted to world psychedelic recordings. We’ll hear rock-inspired music from Malaysia, the Czech Republic, Cambodia and Iran, classic and contemporary psychedelic inspired Peruvian chicha music, and more from the likes of Can, Nguyen Le, M.A.K.U Soundsystem, Los Wembler’s de Iquitos, Money Chicha, and I Marc 4.
Thursday, November 28
Global Village serves up a feast for the holiday with songs about food. On the menu, Rice, Red Beans and Turnip Greens, Sweet Pumpkin, Hot Cross Buns with some Frim Fram Sauce and other musical delicacies.
Friday, November 29
Global Village highlights guitar duos from around the globe in this visit, including Malian legend Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder; Maninka guitar master Djessou Mory Kante with one of Africa’s greatest players, Djelimady Tounkara; Brazilian brothers Sergio and Odair Assad; the popular Costa Rican/Iranian duo of Strunz & Farah; classical guitarist Sharon Isbin with Brazilian jazz player Carlos Barbosa-Lima; and also from Brazil, Raphael Rabello and Rombero Lubambo.
