World Music in New York City is mostly in night clubs and some theaters.
World Music or Global Music is non-European music. It can include flamenco and Latin, but for our purposes world music is music from Mother Africa and Asia.
Thanks to our World Music sponsors:
Snarky Puppy Features Silvana Estrada, Sílvia Pérez-Cruz, Gaby Moreno, and Fuensanta for the World Music Institute at Kings Theatre
KINGS THEATRE, Flatbush, Brooklyn 🇬🇹 🇲🇽 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
globalFEST is a World Music Showcase at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center
DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan ~ alternative, bomba, folk, R&B, rock, world music. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦
Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita with Gustavo Ovalles Revisit “Suba” and the Connections Between Cuba and Mother Africa
Thursday, May 4, 2023
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill (Downtown), Brooklyn
🇨🇺 🇸🇳 🇻🇪
globalFEST 2023 Brings Global Music to David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
Sunday, January 15, 2023
DAVID GEFFEN HALL
Lincoln Center
🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇭🇹 | 🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇩🇿 🇲🇱 🇲🇦
Bazurto All Stars From Cartagena Play & Dance Colombian Champeta Fusion at Flushing Town Hall
Friday, September 30, 2022
FLUSHING TOWN HALL
Flushing, Queens
🇨🇴
Michael Olatuja Lagos Pepper Soup Plays Broadway Afrobeat in Times Square for Carnegie Hall Citywide
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
Friday, September 9, 2022
TIMES SQUARE
Free
🇳🇬
World Music News
New York World Music
World Music Producers
- Robert Browning Associates produces world music at Roulette Intermedium.
- World Music Institute produces world music across New York City.
World Music Venues in NYC
These producers and venues also present a lot of Latin music.
- Barbès is a French-owned bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
- Carnegie Hall Citywide produces world music across NYC. *
- David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
- Drom NYC is a Turkish-owned lounge in the East Village.
- Flushing Town Hall is a community theater in Flushing, Queens.
- Harlem Stage
- LunÀtico is a musician-owned restaurant bar in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
- Nublu
- SOB’s, Sounds of Brazil, is a world music night club in Hudson Square (West SoHo), Manhattan.
- Symphony Space
- Terraza 7 is a Colombian-owned nightclub in Elmhurst, Queens.
World Music Festivals in NYC
- Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American powwow that includes world music drummers.
- globalFEST is a world music festival at Lincoln Center.
About World Music
The term “World Music” comes from Classical Music, but it’s current meaning (non-European Diaspora music) didn’t enter popular usage until the late 1980s. The Recording Academy (Grammys) struggles to wrap its head around this because the great majority of music on Earth is not European.
The Grammys started their “World Music” category in 1992. In 2020, they changed the term from “World Music” to “Global Music.” The idea is that “World Music” put “us” against the world, whereas the term “Global Music” is inclusive. At least the Recording Academy is trying. Anyway, Global Music is Great!