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DESCRIPTION:The free 14th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival happens Friday to 
 Sunday, June 9-11 in various locations citywide. It will feature a dazzling 
 array of performances by some of the Bay Area’s finest artists. This 
 marks the first time the Festival expands beyond People's Park and 
 Telegraph Avenue stomping grounds.     \n\nFriday night starting at 8 pm, 
 the Festival opens with a free kick-off party at La Peña Cultural Center 
 located at 3105 Shattuck Ave. Evening performances display the 
 cross-cultural exchange between Spain, Peru & Cuba. Afro-Peruvian Peta 
 Robles leads multi-textured drumming of the Cajon. Direct from Spain La 
 Mandanga offers passionate dance music.     \n\nOn Saturday the festival 
 launches its first concert in downtown Berkeley at Civic Center Park, 
 between Allston Way and Center St., Noon to 6 pm. Honoring our ancestral 
 lands Corrina Gould, a Chochenyo Ohlone elder, opens the event, followed by 
 a Chiricahua Nde’ “Apache” performance.  Next, award-winning singer 
 Fely Tchaco steps onto center stage infusing lyrical pop into Ivory Coast 
 rhythms. Concert headliners are legendary Fito Reinoso, a top Cuban 
 songwriter, and Zydeco Flames, West Coast’s premier Zydeco band. Fito 
 Reinoso y su Ritmo y Armonia’s sizzling Cuban Salsa, Timba, and Son 
 rhythms reflect Cuba’s street beat and broad musical heritage. Zydeco 
 Flames presents riveting Louisiana funk and R&B as only they can deliver. 
 Saturday festivities also include performances by veterans Alan Hewitt and 
 Summerlynn Rivera (Bluegrass with Clogger) and street music on Shattuck 
 Avenue./////The music feast continues on Sunday with the acclaimed People's 
 Park concert sponsored by Amoeba Music. Guarandinga brilliantly mixes 
 Afro-Caribbean rhythms with East Bay Funk. Ousseynou Kouyate leads Djialy 
 Kunda Kouyate in moving Senegalese melodies and high-impact dance grooves. 
 Ousseynou continues a long family line of “griot” storytellers who 
 carry on the oral history and arts of West Africa.  Sunday’s headliner is 
 show-stopper The Mad Maggies, whose Wild Folk Rock Fusion and eclectic 
 styles of music is in itself a festival!\n\n///// Visitors will also be 
 treated to an impressive music tour mainly in Telegraph Avenue shops, Noon 
 to 9 pm. Best starting place on Sunday is the event information booth, 
 located on Telegraph Avenue at Haste St. near UC Berkeley. /////\n\nDuo 
 Gadjo with singer Isabelle Fontaine open Sunday’s music crawl with 
 Parisian café musi Master Shakuhachi player Cornelius Booth follow the 
 music of the Japanese flute into new landscapes at Musical Offerings. 
 China's Spirit Music Ensemble,an all zither string quartet, journeys 
 through China’s classical and folk traditions at Mad Monks. Acclaimed 
 brothers Tsering Dorjee “Bawa” and Tenzin Choegyal share joyful Tibetan 
 folk music and song at Moe’s Books. Incognito Express, a madcap Balkan 
 Brass band performs at Café Milano. Outdoors, Silk Road Caravan’ s 
 Middle Eastern music & dance creates a street scene on Haste Street at 
 Telegraph.  \n\nStreet artist treasures: Spirit of '29 playing Dixieland 
 Jazz, Alan Hewitt on bluegrass mandolin, and Michael Masley on his invented 
 Bow Hammer Autoharp bring uplifting sounds to Telegraph Avenue sidewalks. 
 Macy Blackman & The Mighty Fines delivering New Orleans Blues makes for a 
 powerful finale to the best ever Berkeley World Music Festival! In addition 
 to extraordinary music, the Festival offers a crafts village with food and 
 children's activities daily. There's something for everyone and it’s all 
 free! Schedules will be available at event information booths.  \n\nVisit 
 www.berkeleyworldmusic.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/17/18799468.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley World Music Festival
LOCATION:Saturday at Civic Center Park, on MLK Jr Way, between Alston Way & Center 
 St, \nSunday: In People's Park & in various Telegraph Ave locations near UC 
 Berkeley. Start at Telegraph Ave at Haste St info booth
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/17/18799468.php
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