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Sacré Bleu Bayou!

France takes center stage at the Houston International Festival

By Bob Burtman
Apr 18, 2002

To look at retail stacks or Amazon.com, the selection of France as the Houston International Festival's spotlighted nation seems an odd choice. While record stores devote entire sections to Afro-pop, reggae, Celtic music and myriad Latin offerings, it's hard to find much with an obvious French connection beyond the usual...
Travail-less Travels

Putumayo and Rough Guide samplers offer up armchair adventures for jittery Americans

By Bob Burtman
Dec 27, 2001

The vacation plans of the average American have been severely dampened by the fallout from September 11. For many yanqui adventurers, the SUV has temporarily displaced the jumbo jet as the preferred mode of transportation. But for those whose global wanderlust can't be satisfied by a week in the Hill...
Playbill

The Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

By Bob Burtman
Jul 12, 2001

Sacred cows make the tastiest burgers, says the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, and he should know: The grill master has no equal in skewering and roasting the status quo, preaching the evils of greed, hypocrisy and TV evangelists from his boogie-woogie pulpit. Social satire seems a dying art in the...
Emerald Bayou

The Irish take center stage at the 2001 Houston International Fest

By Bob Burtman
Apr 19, 2001

Popular as it is stateside, Irish music struggles to find its place among the masses who consider world music a monolithic other. As various styles come into vogue and then recede in the popular consciousness -- flamenco and Cuban on today's front burner, Afro-pop and the Bulgarian women's choir on...
Red Rhythms

Maraca and Otra Vision

By Bob Burtman
Jul 6, 2000

Jesse Helms was right: The unparalleled sounds of Cuba have been infiltrating our borders with regularity of late. Bamboleo and Buena Vista Social Club served as the advance troops; next, Maraca and Otra Vision will launch the full frontal assault. Flutist and composer Orlando "Maraca" Valle leads his megawatt big...

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