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The Sudanese music and Dance Festival returns in 2008 with concerts in Chicago and Detroit. The festival had its inception in 2007 at New York’s Central Park Summerstage. This one-time event was the largest and most representative gathering of major Sudanese talent ever assembled on an international stage, and the 2008 events will build on that success and surpass it. The festival is produced by ISAMI, in collaboration with a veteran of daring world music initiatives in the United States, Dawn Elder. Elder’s passion for Sudanese music goes back to her work with Sudan’s greatest living singer, Mohammed Wardi. Wardi no longer leaves his homeland, but some of the musicians who backed him and other Sudanese legends will perform in the Nile music and Dan...

Music News: China's top search site gives streaming rights -- Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site, Baidu, has announced a partnership with three major local record companies, giving it the right to use their repertoire on its online music streaming service.

Puerto Rican band Plena Libre will release Plena al Salsero - Live in Monterrey, Mexico, on July 17th on Ritmo Artists/GN Musica. Since their last studio recording, 2006’s Grammy- and Latin Grammy-nominated Evolución, Plena Libre have continued to add contemporary cumbia, merengue, salsa and other Afro-Caribbean sounds into their mix, creating a unique sofrito borinqueño that is pushing the island’s roots music well into the future. With band leader Gary Núñez now securing some of the Puerto Rico’s top p...

AP - Former 'American Idol' Ruben Studdard has married Surata Zuri McCants at a church in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. But there was no singing during the 30-minute ceremony ? just an exchange of vows, prayers and music provided by a string ensemble. A reporter from The Birmingham News attended the ceremony.

BERT Jansch opens the door to his garden flat in Kilburn, North London, and leads the way down to the living room, a pleasant space lined with CDs, books and musical instrumen

Rocker John Mayer has hinted at an early retirement from the music industry after completing his summer tour.

Amy Winehouse was packing a punch at the Glastonbury music festival.

Former ''American Idol'' Ruben Studdard has married Surata Zuri McCants at a church in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. But there was no singing during the 30-minute ceremony - just an exchange of vows, prayers and music provided by a string ensemble. A reporter from The Birmingham News attended the ceremony.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein is the subject of a FOX 5 hour-long special, 'Young Frankenstein: Alive on Broadway,' to air this Sunday night June 29th at 5PM on Channel 5.

It's the British metal quintet's first concept album, a fascinating telling of the life and times of Nostradamus, the selfproclaimed prophet, his predictions and turbulent life.