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Media Praise from globalFEST 2004
“Globe-hopping was as easy as an elevator ride for the sold-out crowd at GlobalFest, the world-music showcase that commandeered all three floors at the Public Theater to present 15 live bands in five hours on Saturday night. …The music reflected an interconnected world in which ethnographic purity is giving way to multicultural fusions, though a cultural heritage often shines through the international trappings.”
—Jon Pareles, New York Times
“With an aural smorgasbord as ambitious as last Saturday's GlobalFEST, it's inevitable that a few choice items will go untasted. In five hours on three stages at the Public Theater, a sold-out crowd scrambled to see 16 multicultural attractions from around the world and around the block. Forty-minute sets were just long enough to leave most of us wanting more. … Few, if any, of these acts were obsessed with the "purity" of their music. Authenticity and purity are not the same, and if festival participants chose to bend and blend genre categories, it was only after serious study of those root musics they hoped to update or alter. If anything, the participants in Manhattan's first GlobalFEST proved it's possible to respect the past without being forced to preserve it forever unchanged.”
—Carol Cooper, Village Voice
“…coming-out party of sorts for the rapidly growing world-music community…”
—David Sprague, Variety
“The level of infectious enthusiasm among seasoned, connoisseur fans and newcomers to world music was tuned high, as they eagerly raced through 3 floors, or queued up to enter capacity-filled cabaret, dancehall and concert hall venues in the Public Theater during a five-hour marathon session. As they took in a remarkable sampling of 16 musical entries from all over the world, it was clear that world music has begun to make measurable inroads in America's musical booking universe.”
—Evangeline Kim, Afropop.org
“I’ve been lucky to have witnessed some very special events, the kind where you just look into the eyes of someone else exiting the building and, without a word being said, there is an agreement – you both know you’ve just spent an evening you’ll remember for the rest of your lives; you’ve been a participant in an event that others, for years to come, will with (and claim) they had been part of. GlobalFest was one such evening.”
—Jeff Tamarkin, Global Rhythm
“The world-music aisle of your local record store comes to life as sixteen artists converge on three stages at the Public Theatre.”
—John Donohue, New Yorker
“…the festival undoubtedly will prove that you don't have to be eccentric to look beyond the borders of the United States to find a musical kinship.” —Marty Lipp, Newsday
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