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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 moved the 2021 edition from the nightclub to your screen of choice and shared the festival with the world. We called it . We presented 16 artists in intimate settings (often behind desks donning globes) representing more than a dozen countries. Thirty feet below the surface in Brooklyn, 10th grader Nora Brown brings incredible, surprising depth to the Appalachian music she plays. Over the cou...

. Dedicated Men of Zion come to you from their backyard barbecue in North Carolina, bringing with them an electrified version of sacred gospel soul music. This family band (all related through blood or marriage) has been isolating together during the pandemic, and the members are excited to provide an uplifting note during difficult times. This performance took place during the opening night of our 2021 festival. -- globalFEST "Can't Turn Me Around" "It's A Shame" Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey GLOBALFEST TEAM 2021 Curators: Shanta Thake, Isabel Soffer, Bill Br...

. This show marks DakhaBrakha's return to globalFEST and Tiny Desk. The Ukrainian band's first globalFEST performance was in 2014, and their 2015 Tiny Desk concert remains a favorite. We've had them in our spaces, so it's a real treat to see them in theirs, the Dakh Theater in Kiev. Coming together, their performance maintains the energy and joy that define their music, bouncing off each other musically and emotionally. DakhaBrakha aims to keep Ukraine's musical and storytelling tradition alive by making it more accessible to a younger, international audience, a kind of self-proclaimed "ethno...

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 t...

By: Andy Gensler Angélique Kidjo, who is hosting the 2020 iteration of globalFEST with Tiny Desk Concert Jan. 11 - 14 seen here performing in 2016 at Brooklyn's Prospect Park (Photo by Al Pereira/WireImage) Angélique Kidjo is the perfect host for 2021's Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST,  which runs online Jan. 11–14  and features 16 performances from across the world. For one thing, she performed at the inaugural globalFEST in 2004, which now runs every January and is exquisitely timed to the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP)...