Six artists who'll be playing the Richmond Folk Festival this weekend: Peru's Los Wembler's chicha band, Betsayda Machado & La Parranda El Clavo from Venezuela, Iranian tar virtuoso Sahba Motallebi, Romanian gypsy cimbalom player Nicolae Feraru, Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and the Brooklyn-based Moroccan band Innov Gnawa.
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Artist | Country | Song | Recording | Label | Year
Oliver Lake | USA | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997 Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | England UK | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
Los Wembler's De Iquitos | Peru | Sonido Amazonico | Ikaro Del Amor | Barbes | 2017 Los Bilbao | Peru | Zelenita Del Ano 2000 | Andina: Huayno, Carnaval And Cumbia, The Sound Of The Peruvian Andes 1968-1978 | Tiger's Milk / Strut | 197x Los Orientales De Paramonga | Peru | Lobos Al Escape | single | Dinsa | 1970
Betsayda Machado & La Parranda El Clavo | Venezuela | No La Peles Papa | Loe Loa: Rural Recordings Under The Mango Tree | Odelia | 2017 Son Palenque | Colombia | Mina Ma Pelo | Kutu Prieta Pa Saranguia | Palenque | 2017 Abelardo Carbono Y Su Conjunto | Colombia | La Negra Kulengue | Abelardo Carbono Y Su Conjunto | Producciones Fonograficas Felito Ltda. | 1982
Sahba Motallebi | Iran-USA | Life | Dashti Nava | self-released | 2006 Mohammad Nouri | Iran | Biya Bar-E Safar Bandim | single | Pars | 197x Rita | Iran-Israel | Kabutare Sefid | My Joys | NMC Music | 2012
Saz'iso | Albania | Trendafili Flete-Flete | At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me: The Joys And Sorrows Of Southern Albanian Song | Glitterbeat | 2017 Nicolae Feraru | Romania-USA | Breaza: Manea | Nicolae Feraru And His Romanian Gypsy Band | self-released | 2013 Taraf De Haidouks | Romania | Dumbala Dumba | Dumbala Dumba | Crammed Discs | 1998 Boban I Marko Markovic | Serbia | Devla | Devla | Piranha | 2009
The Expanders | USA | Another Moses | Old Time Something Come Back Again, Vol. 2 | Easy Star | 2017 The In Crowd | Jamaica | Born In Ethiopia | single | Revue | 1977 Bob Marley & The Wailers | Jamaica | Duppy Conqueror | single | Upsetter | 1970
Bitori | Cabo Verde | Bitori Nha Bibinho | Legend Of Funana: The Forbidden Music Of The Cape Verde Islands | Analog Africa | 1997 Quirino Do Canto | Cabo Verde | Mino Di Mama | Cabo Verde Poema Tropical | self-released | 1985
Innov Gnawa | Morocco-USA | FatHa & La Ilaha Ila Allah | Innov Gnawa | Remix Culture | 2016 Club D'Elf | USA-Morocco | Sunshine Of Your Love | Electric Moroccoland | Face Pelt | 2011
Hotel X | RVA USA | Goodluck Jonathan | Live At Crossroads September 22, 2017 | unreleased | 2017