This once in a lifetime event gathered musicians from wildly different backgrounds in a benefit for Richard Gere’s Healing The Divide Foundation. Recorded live at Lincoln Center in NY, this CD features transcendental performances from Tibet’s Gyuto Choir, India’s Anoushka Shankar, genre-bending duets from Tibetan avant-garde musician Nawang Kechong with Native American master …
While working on the two “Pirates Of The Caribbean” films, Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski became fascinated with the lore and fable of the pirates and sailors who ran the high seas. Enter legendary producer Hal Wilner, who brings his knack for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material. Artists on this double disc set include Bono, Sting, …
Mavis Staples, who marched and sang and protested alongside Dr. Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960 s, saw her steadfast dedication to equality and unwavering sense of hope validated on Tuesday, Nov. 4th 2008. She writes: “To come up in a time when there was slavery, racism, the KKK, and Jim Crow, I’m …
The Swell Season are Glen Hansard (from the Irish band the Frames) andMarketa Irglova (classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist). In 2007,Once, a film about two people meeting and falling in love on the streets ofDublin, became an indie phenomenon, as audiences everywhere respondedto the unassuming charm of the two leads, Glen and Marketa, and thebeautiful music they …