Beats without Borders

05/05/2024

Closer to Charleston than Morgantown, this gem of a venue in Blacksburg has some great multicultural and international programming. This season is great. Mariza from Portugal playing fado is a highlight for me, but there are multiple shows that seem really awesome.

-Emmett

Subscriptions are now available for the center’s newest season, which features classical favorites, Broadway blockbusters, jazz and global sounds, innovative dance and theatre works, and fantastical family-friendly worlds of imagination.

17/03/2024

Across the river, and a hop and a skip, over in Athens, OH.

The College of Fine Arts at Ohio University is pleased to present the 12th World Music and Dance Concert, part of the 4th Global Arts Festival, celebrating Diversity, Global Arts, and International Education at Ohio University.

29/05/2023

Incredible performance from dakhabrakha on KEXP. This quartet is based out of Kyiv, Ukraine. Check them out:

http://KEXP.ORG presents DakhaBrakha performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 23, 2017.Songs:VesnaCarpathian RapMonakhBabyHost: Darek MazzoneAudio ...

11/03/2023

Thanks to Crusing The Boulevard WTSQ 88.1 Charleston WV WWSA 96.9 St Albans WV's Rick Skeen for the heads up about 50 Arab 78 records at an estate sale on the East End that Emmett grabbed. Emmett might need to play some of them during the April vinylthon if shellac is allowed to be played, too!

02/03/2023

The Return! This Saturday, March 4, from 6pm to 7pm, Emmett will be back on WTSQ spinning some records as a part of the mini-vinylthon for the WTSQ 88.1FM - The Status Quo fun drive fundraiser! Tune in at 88.1fm or wtsq.org!

29/12/2022

11/10/2022

Happy Google Doodle to Tito Puente!

In honor of US Hispanic Heritage Month, today’s animated video Doodle celebrates the life and legacy of American “Nuyorican” musician and internationally-ren...

17/09/2022

This is sad. Tinariwen are legendary.

For reasons beyond our control, all Tinariwen members and their tour manager’s US visa applications have been under administrative processing for more than a month. Everything has been tried to expedite the process and reorganize dates to buy some time but there is now no other choice than to cancel the whole North American tour, which will hopefully be rescheduled as soon as the horizon brightens.

05/09/2022

Let's give a shout out to the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables.

Mandemosle un saludo a la gente que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas.



Thank you for letting us use this art

15/07/2022

This is awesome.

https://syriancassettearchives.org/

Syrian Cassette Archives is an initiative to preserve, share and research Syria’s abundant cassette era. Explore the tapes here, plus special content produced by SCA and its collaborators.

06/06/2022

I'm proud to have worked with Mayor Goodwin and her staff on her proclamation in support of the people of Ukraine as well as the people in our Sister City of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, who have done so much to help Ukrainian refugees. Next month, Larry Groce and The Carpenter Ants will visit Banska Bystrica as a part of a cultural exchange and will deliver the proclamation to officials there. The proclamation is being announced at the Monday, June 6, 2022, meeting of City Council.

📷: Frauke Riether from Pixabay.

19/04/2022

http://footmad-concertseries.weebly.com/single-concert-tickets.html

17/12/2021

UNESCO : Liste représentative du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité - 2021URL : https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/01711Description : La rumba congolaise...

17/08/2021

Tonight on Dealers Choice at 8pm Eastern features some great music from South America and Cuba as well as some swell indie Rock

05/08/2021

h/t The Terrible Infant Presents

24/05/2021

Article by Alasha Al-Qudwah for Postindustrial

Alasha Al-Qudwah, an educator and freelance musician, is the first violinist of the David Bowie String Quintet and performs with the group Minor Swing.

02/05/2021

You can get a free Quran and other information about Islam by ordering here, if anyone is interested in a deeper understanding.

Educate & free yourself from misconceptions

29/04/2021

Emmett is doing the Ration Challenge -- a way to raise money to help refugee resettlement, hunger, and other important issues. Please consider donating! If he raises enough money, he will, for a week, eat the rations that a Syrian refugee would get in a camp in Jordan. His goal is to raise $906 -- enough to cover four refugees' rations for a year.
https://www.rationchallengeusa.org/emmett-pepper

Let's show we really are in this together.

27/03/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvqdXR3XnI

From "Le Nozze di Figaro" OperaCherubino's Aria - Non So Piu Cosa Son Cosa FaccioWolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Trad. Adapt. : ADYA

16/03/2021

You can listen to WTSQ 88.1FM - The Status Quo on here and lots of stations from all over over world. I listened to some Fado on a station in the Azores.

04/03/2021

Weijia Jiang was born in China but immigrated to Buckhannon in Upshur County when she was a child. Today, she is the White House Correspondent for CBS News in Washington, D.C.