The World Music Festival Chicago is an annual
musical event held in
Chicago
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, Illinois, since 1999. It is organized by the
City of Chicago
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The festival takes place in September, usually runs 5–10 days,
and has featured musicians from over 75 countries since its inception.
Featured performers
Performers at the festival have included:
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Rahim AlHaj
Rahim AlHaj ( ar, رحيم الحاج, born c. 1968) is an Iraqi American oud musician and composer.
Early life
AlHaj was born in Baghdad, Iraq and began playing the oud (an Arabic lute) at age nine. Early on, it was evident that he had a remark ...
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Maria de Barros Maria de Barros (born February 3, 1961, in Dakar, Senegal) is a singer most associated with Cape Verde, the land of her parents. Growing up in Nouakchott, Mauritania, she moved to the United States at the age of 11, living in Providence, Rhode Islan ...
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Bomba Estereo
Bomba may refer to:
Places
*Bomba, Belize, a village in the Belize District of Belize
*Bomba, Abruzzo, a ''comune'' in Province of Chieti, Italy
*Bomba, Libya, a village near the city of Derna in Libya
*Gulf of Bomba, a body of water in the Medit ...
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Bulgarika
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Fatoumata Diawara
Fatoumata Diawara ( bm, ߝߊ߫ߕߎߡߕߊ ߖߊ߯ߥߙߊ߫, Fatumta Jawara, born 1982) is a Malian singer-songwriter currently living in France.
Diawara began her career as an actress in theatre and in film, including ''Genesis'' (1999), '' Sia, T ...
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Joaquin Diaz
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Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto
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Sergent Garcia
Sergent Garcia is the band formed around French singer ''Bruno Garcia'' (1964, France) who had previously been the guitarist of punk band Ludwig Von 88.
Sergent Garcia’s music is a mixture of cumbia, reggae, salsa, Ragga, ragamuffin, rock and ...
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Hanggai
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Janka Nabay
Janka, typically a given name or a surname, is a form of the originally Hebrew language name ''"Yohanan"'' (meaning "God is merciful").
Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
* Carlo Janka (born 1986), Swiss alpine ski racer
* Les Jan ...
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Nawal Quartet or (Arabic: نوال ''nawāl'') is Arabic female given name literally meaning "unmerited favour of God" or "gift, grant, present, donation, award, offering" or also could mean "state or quality of being kind, act of kindness beyond what is due" o ...
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Slavic Soul Party!
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Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of street musicians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They used to live around the grounds of the zoo in the country's capital city, Kinshasa, and play music which is rooted in soukous, with elements of old-sc ...
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Sidi Toure
References
External links
World Music Festival Chicago
Music festivals in Chicago
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