The World Music Festival, single i...

The World Music Festival, single in kind of Chicago's most colorful citywide circumstances returns with a jam-packed schedule tribe 14-21 for its eighth season. The festival not absents dozens of international performers, as well as world music acts based in Chicago and over the United States.

Sponsored by means of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the festival make clears in Grant Park and almost 30 area venue Headliners will include the civilization Musical Club of Zanzibar, a prolific orchestra presenting taarab music; Otto, a Brazilian percussionist and singer-songwriter whose work is a mix of maracatu, tympanum and bass, forro and rap, and Yat-Kha, an the whole whose signature sound mixes traditional Tuvan music and distaff featuring the throat-style singing of bandleader Albert Kuvezin.

From Africa ensue two legendary acts: Oliver Mtukudzi & Black Spirits, which fuses traditional Zimbabwean music and classic American R&B and Mamadou Diabete, a Malian kora player who keeps the past through music, melody and oratory.

Among the up-and-coming artists featured at this year's festival is Sara Tavares, who grew up influenced by means of the cultures of Portugal and Africa, and Toubab Krewe, a year-old troupe that breeds a wild blend described as Malian-influenced Afro-cowboy-ninja-surf music.

As in the past, the World Music Festival remains a bargain, because many of the affairs are free, including a daily series of live radio broadcasts featuring interviews and performances at the Chicago Cultural Center

Evening performances, with ticket prices ranging from $10 to $15 are scattered around town at associations parks and performance venues.

For more information, call (312) 744-6630 or visit www.CityofChicago.org/WorldMusic.

mhoulihan@suntimes.com

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