Hakkımda:

Thank you to all the artists, managers, agents, volunteers, vendors, The NHCC (particularly the Performing Arts and Education staff), our generous sponsors and ESPECIALLY all Globalistas that came out to support the fest enjoy two days of fabulous music from around the globe!

Mark your calendars for ¡Globalquerque! VI: September 24 & 25, 2010

Peace,

The ¡Globalquerque! Crew

______________________________________________________________________________________ THE FIFTH ANNUAL ¡GLOBALQUERQUE!
NEW MEXICO'S CELEBRATION OF WORLD MUSIC & CULTURE

17 WORLD MUSIC ACTS from 5 CONTINENTS on 3 STAGES over 2 NIGHTS!

2009 CONFIRMED LINEUP (a/o September 2)
Blick Bassy (Cameroon)
Cava (East LA, USA)
Maria De Barros (Cape Verde)
Indian Ocean (India)
Mamek Khadem (Iran)
Kusun Ensemble (Ghana)
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (Tennessee, USA)
Little Cow (Hungary)
Robert Mirabal (Taos Pueblo, USA)
Mono Blanco (Mexico)
Nation Beat (Brazil/USA)
Novalima (Peru)
Dwayne Ortega and The Young Guns (New Mexico, USA)
Saints & Tzadiks: Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamsberg (Irish/Yiddish)
Toppah & Yazzie (Diné/Kiowa)
Väsen with Mike Marshall & Darol Anger (Sweden/USA)
¡Viva la Pepa! (New Mexico,USA)

¡Globalquerque! 2009 returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM USA.

Like the past editions, ¡Globalquerque! 2009 will present a wide range of artists from around the world including representative artists from New Mexico’s varied musical traditions. A staggered stage schedule will allow people to sample the broadest range of performances in unique settings and ambiances from the intimate Salón Ortega Fountain Courtyard to the state-of-the-art 691-seat Albuquerque Journal Theatre to the outdoor Plaza Mayor festival concert stage.

The celebration and festival again promises to be both a destination event for tourists and a major entertainment and community activity for residents of the city and region.

¡Globalquerque! has for the fifth year been selected as one of a handful of Tier 1 Events by the Albuquerque Convention and Visitor Bureau (ACVB) and is also a featured City of Albuquerque event. We have a national marketing campaign that includes vacation packages through our hotel and rental car sponsors and ACVB and national, regional and local advertising.

Here are some of the confirmed elements of the celebration, with more being added all the time:

· Featured Ticketed Event with music on three stages by fifteen to eighteen performance groups spanning two nights. Acts to be announced as confirmed.

· FREE Community Day Programming
Saturday Afternoon (11 AM – 4 PM) including: . Family-focused entertainment including Music, Street Performers, Instrument Making, International Dance Classes, International Storytelling, GlobalCookie Decorating Contest, NHCC Museum Tour plus Workshops on International Music & Culture with evening performers.

· The Global Village of Craft, Culture & Cuisine featuring a plethora of vendors with an amazing selection of international and New Mexican goods, food and information running during both the free events and the evening ticketed events.

· The Global Village stage featuring free day performances and workshops.

· and MORE!

For information about any of these programs or to discuss sponsorship, advertising, partnership or vending opportunities, please visit: www.globalquerque.com

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT - THE ARTISTS, MANAGERS, VENDORS and ESPECIALLY THE FANS - FOR MAKING ¡GLOBALQUERQUE! 2008 SO MEMORABLE!!!