Announcing globalFEST 2019!

globalFEST at the Copacabana, Jan. 6, 2019
Tickets: $65 and up. Secure a ticket via IndieGoGo

GlobalFEST, the long-running showcase celebrating new artists, old perspectives, and expansive cultural traditions, shares the same joy of discovery and open ears that drives what we do here at New Sounds. With that overlap of mission in mind, New Sounds is super-excited to announce 2019’s globalFEST, which will be held at the historic Copacabana in Times Square on Jan. 6, 2019. The Latin, jazz, and pop hub boasts three stages under one roof where musical travelers will come from Cuba, Palestine, Mexico, and South Africa. Twelve artists will be performing at the 16^th annual globalFEST for this night of discovery of and connection to the world’s musical traditions. -Caryn Havlik

(And the drumroll please...) We're thrilled to reveal the first four artists:

Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider: "Dreamers" (Mexico/USA)
Innovative New York string quartet Brooklyn Rider and multi-lingual Mexican jazz singer Magos Herrera celebrate beauty as a political act.

Jeremy Dutcher (Tobique/Canada)
Reinvented indigenous Wolastoqiyik songs by the Polaris Prize winning composer and operatic tenor

B.C.U.C. - Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness (South Africa)
Defiant and hypnotic Soweto seven-piece band making “afropsychedelic” music reminiscent of Fela’s Afrobeat

Orquesta Akokán (Cuba/USA)

Powerhouse Cuban Mambo (and rumba, cha-cha and jazzy) big band supergroup from Havana, who also performed live in-studio on our Soundcheck Podcast:

Here's the Spotify playlist to sample some of the artists who will be part of the 16th annual globalFEST in January 2019: