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The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

Malick Sidibé

Burke Museum Exhibit Explores Global Diets

For readers of Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's Hungry Planet: What The World Eats, there aren't any surprises in the Burke Museum's new exhibit of the same name, featuring large-scale images from the popular book documenting dietary practices around the globe. Here are the Melanders of northern G ... More >>

Aurelio's Honduran Pop

Sub Pop's latest world-music signee puts the U.S.'s politically minded musical gasbags to shame.

Sure, the Grammys Love Grunge, But They Also Dig the First-Ever Release From Sub Pop's World Music Imprint, Next Ambiance

​Though Seattle's '90s-era hitmakers Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice In Chains all picked up Grammy nods in last night's announcements (local list after the jump), Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba's I Speak Fula., the first release from Sub Pop's world music imprint, Next Ambiance, picked up a no ... More >>

Breaking: Point Defiance Zoo Tiger Cub in Critical Condition After Surgery

Little Mali and her brother, Bima​There's some major medical drama unfolding at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium right now. It seems that Mali, one of the zoo's two endangered Sumatran tiger cubs, went into cardiac arrest last night following surgery and is clinging to life. The zoo just sent ou ... More >>

Tonight: Deakin at the Vera Project, Shake the Shack at the Tractor, Fences at the Crocodile

​Deakin, with Prince Rama. Vera Project, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372. 7:30 p.m. $11. All ages. In December 2009, Deakin (born Josh Dibb) raised nearly $26,000 from fans to travel to Mali and perform at the world music blowout Festival au Désert--a forward-thinking move that matches his avant-g ... More >>

Deakin

​Deakin, with Prince Rama. Vera Project, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372. 7:30 p.m. $11. All ages. In December 2009, Deakin (born Josh Dibb) raised nearly $26,000 from fans to travel to Mali and perform at the world music blowout Festival au Désert--a forward-thinking move that matches his avant-g ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​Deakin, with Prince Rama. Vera Project, 305 Harrison St., 956-8372. 7:30 p.m. $11. All ages. In December 2009, Deakin (born Josh Dibb) raised nearly $26,000 from fans to travel to Mali and perform at the world music blowout Festival au Désert--a forward-thinking move that matches his avant-g ... More >>

Tonight: Fahir Atakoglu at Jazz Alley, Vieux Farka Toure at Neumos

​Fahir Atakoglu. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., 441-9729. 7:30 p.m. $24.50. You can easily hear the jingle-writing, soundtrack-composing side of this Istanbul-born pianist. There's a certain density of emotion that contrasts with the ambiguous, elusive nature of a lot of modern jazz. And that's ... More >>

Vieux Farka Toure

​Fahir Atakoglu. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., 441-9729. 7:30 p.m. $24.50. You can easily hear the jingle-writing, soundtrack-composing side of this Istanbul-born pianist. There's a certain density of emotion that contrasts with the ambiguous, elusive nature of a lot of modern jazz. And that's ... More >>

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

​Fahir Atakoglu. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave., 441-9729. 7:30 p.m. $24.50. You can easily hear the jingle-writing, soundtrack-composing side of this Istanbul-born pianist. There's a certain density of emotion that contrasts with the ambiguous, elusive nature of a lot of modern jazz. And that's ... More >>

Tonight: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba at Neumos, Origami Ghosts at the Rendezvous

​Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $17. Sub Pop built its reputation on grunge and sustained it on indie rock. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba are absolutely neither of those. The first signees to Sub Pop subsidiary Next Ambiance, Ngoni Ba is a four-person fami ... More >>

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba

​Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $17. Sub Pop built its reputation on grunge and sustained it on indie rock. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba are absolutely neither of those. The first signees to Sub Pop subsidiary Next Ambiance, Ngoni Ba is a four-person fami ... More >>

Win Free Tickets to See Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba at Neumos Tomorrow Night!

​Malian musical maestros Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba will grace the Neumos stage tomorrow night to perform the lively and worldly songs off their latest release, last year's I Speak Fula (Sub Pop Records). It's a rare and exciting opportunity to see a thrillingly soulful performance. The show ... More >>

Also Tonight: Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba at The Triple Door

Malian ngoni master Bassekou Kouyaté is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting and dynamic artists on the Sub Pop lineup right now. Born into a family of musicians, he's been playing the ngoni (a stringed predecessor of the banjo) since he was a child in his native West African village, an ... More >>

Q&A: Next Ambiance Is Hardly Pop

Sub Pop’s latest challenge is bringing world music to the masses.

Q&A: KEXP's Jon Kertzer On Starting a Label With Sub Pop, and the Roots of American Popular Music

Courtesy of KEXP​Having already birthed a pair of offshoots, with one still on the teat (Hardly Art), Sub Pop's going into business with KEXP's Best Ambiance DJ Jon Kertzer to launch Next Ambiance, a world music label that issues its first digital release, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba's I Speak ... More >>

Toubab Krewe

Courtesy of KEXP​Having already birthed a pair of offshoots, with one still on the teat (Hardly Art), Sub Pop's going into business with KEXP's Best Ambiance DJ Jon Kertzer to launch Next Ambiance, a world music label that issues its first digital release, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba's I Speak ... More >>

Throw Down Your Heart: The Banjo Goes International

Courtesy of KEXP​Having already birthed a pair of offshoots, with one still on the teat (Hardly Art), Sub Pop's going into business with KEXP's Best Ambiance DJ Jon Kertzer to launch Next Ambiance, a world music label that issues its first digital release, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba's I Speak ... More >>

Andrew Oliver Impresses With Just 4 U

Courtesy of KEXP​Having already birthed a pair of offshoots, with one still on the teat (Hardly Art), Sub Pop's going into business with KEXP's Best Ambiance DJ Jon Kertzer to launch Next Ambiance, a world music label that issues its first digital release, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba's I Speak ... More >>

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Bamako: Justice in Africa (If Only On-Screen)

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Brave New World

Amadou & Mariam's modern inspirations.

Men of Salt

Learning to love camels, and a new recipe for making tea.

Way Out West

Five new records from West Africa explore their roots with surprising results.

George Jones

Also: Lisa Brokop, The Willowz, Carolyn Mark, Pet Shop Boys: Back to Mine, and Golden Afrique, Vol. 1.

The New Abolitionists

Freeing 'sex slaves' is now at the top of the human rights agenda, thanks to Christian evangelicals, the Bush administration, and two former Washington politicians, Linda Smith and John Miller. How did the anti-trafficking crusade evolve, and is it being overhyped?

West Africa Social Club

Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

Visual Arts Calendar

Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

Visual Arts Calendar

Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

Visual Arts Calendar

Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

Portraits in Africa, Nexus Architecture + Connector IV

Orchestra Baobab bring '70s Senegal to modern America.

Diamond Rich

Bembeya Jazz revisit the golden age of Guinean pop.

The Great Escape

Blur's musical diaspora: beyond the Waterloo sunset, Africa!

Out of Africa

Two of Mali's greatest team up for one special performance.

Homeward Bound

Singer Salif Keita follows his heart and his muse back to Mali.

Waste Not, Want Not

For world-music mavens Lo'Jo, life is a cabaret.

Fall Arts— Film

Five picks for fall

CD Reviews

Five picks for fall

Alive y kicking

Back from the brink, a world music festival brings big names to Redmond—including Peter Gabriel.

Top-10 Lists

Our critics select the best albums by genre, plus singles, local music, and 10 you might have missed.

Archers of Loaf, Deckard, and more.

Our critics select the best albums by genre, plus singles, local music, and 10 you might have missed.

WOMADness II

Part two of our guide to this year's worldly visitors.

Experts and cranks

Part two of our guide to this year's worldly visitors.