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 New York's World Music Festival globalFEST 2010 Line Up Announced - World Music Central

This year’s festival includes:

- Alif Naaba, West African acoustic song (Burkina Faso)
- Cara Dillon, striking Celtic vocalist (Ireland)
- Caravan Palace, B swinginb electro manouche jazz (France)
- Cedric Watson, Creole Zydeco heir from Louisiana (USA)
- Federico Aubele, bolero and cumbia meets electro downtempo (Argentina/USA)
- La Cumbiamba eNeYé, Afro-Colombian roots from NYC (Colombia/USA)
- La Excelencia, old-school salsa dura revivalists (USA)
- Meta and the Cornerstones, African roots reggae export (Senegal/USA)
- Namgar, Siberian shaman rock from the Central Asian steppes (Russia)
- Nguyen Le, acclaimed French-Vietnamese guitarist leads a Pan-Asian jazz trio (Vietnam/Japan/India/France)
- Nightlosers, Transylvanian blues-rock/Gypsy chameleons (Romania)
- Souad Massi, Algerian folk-rock songstress (Algeria/France)

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