Various Artists - Tropical HolidayLet yourself be whisked away on a Tropical Holiday with music from around the Caribbean Haiti, Martinique, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, and other island nations. Put your sunglasses on and get into the summer mood with irresistible dances. The cumbia is perhaps internationally the best known form of music and dance from Colombia. It has African roots with a great deal of Spanish and Indian influence. In fact, Colombians consider the cumbia to be the

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Hedy West was one of the most individual and inspiring folk musicians to grace the North American and European folk scenes

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And the orchestra will demonstrate the degree to which a composer under Stalin had to wrestle with his own identity with Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

Her highly authentic recordings for music publisher Arco Diva have also raised attention on the international music scene

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the collective achieved fame after the Second World War when Gertrude's daughter Clara Ward was leader

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among the most significant in the entire history of modern jazz

is guaranteed to be heard at pub gigs in every town around the country on a Friday night