Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Edwin Perez, Elisapie, Nora Brown, Rokia Traoré Featuring salsa, First Nations music, Appalachian folk and a West African star. NPR The Tiny Desk is teaming up with globalFEST this year for a thrilling virtual music festival: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST. The online fest includes four nights of concerts featuring 16 bands from all over the world. From Monday, Jan. 11, through Thursday, Jan. 14, we ll be streaming new performances at 8 p.m. ET on NPR Music s YouTube channel and NPR.org. Every January, I attend globalFEST at a New York City nightclub and see some of the most fantastic music I ll experience all year. Now, given the pandemic s challenges and the hardening of international borders, NPR Music and globalFEST is moving from the nightclub to your screen of choice and sharing this festival with the world. Each night, we ll present four artists in intimate settings (often behind desks donning globes), and it s all hosted by African superstar Angélique Kidjo, who performed at the inaugural edition of globalFEST in 2004.
The Tiny Desk is teaming up with globalFEST this year for a thrilling virtual music festival: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST. The online fest includes four nights of concerts featuring 16 bands from all over the world. From Monday, Jan. 11, through Thursday, Jan. 14, we ll be streaming new performances at 8 p.m. ET on NPR Music s YouTube channel and NPR.org. Every January, I attend globalFEST at a New York City nightclub and see some of the most fantastic music I ll experience all year. Now, given the pandemic s challenges and the hardening of international borders, NPR Music and globalFEST is moving from the nightclub to your screen of choice and sharing this festival with the world. Each night, we ll present four artists in intimate settings (often behind desks donning globes), and it s all hosted by African superstar Angélique Kidjo, who performed at the inaugural edition of globalFEST in 2004.