Sunday, January 17, 1999
Free WorldJam festival coming downtown in October
BY LARRY NAGER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Fifth Street will ring with the beats of some very different drummers on the second weekend of October, as a new festival brings exotic sounds to downtown Cincinnati.
WorldJam will debut Oct. 9-10, as Cincinnati Arts Festival Inc. introduces its world music festival on two blocks of Fifth Street, from Vine to Main streets.
“We kind of introduce the festival season with Jammin' on Main and now, with WorldJam, we'll end it,” says CAF president Nancy Heffner Donovan. (This year, however, WorldJam will be followed by Tall Stacks '99, which runs Oct. 13-17.)
Unlike Jammin', which charges admission, WorldJam will be free, due to the sponsorship of Delta Air Lines and Time Warner Cable.
The festival will feature ethnic and folk styles, including Afro-Cuban, Celtic, klezmer, African, Latin, Andean, American Indian and North American blues.
The musical groups and dance troupes will be drawn from regional talent as well as national and international artists. The lineup will be announced in August.
WorldJam also will feature booths for ethnic food and crafts vendors. A workshop tent will be set up for educational programs, including dance instruction and the making of bamboo flutes.
“While we all recognize that Cincinnati isn't New York, Los Angeles or Miami . . . there are certain wonderful influences that infuse life in those cities,” says Bob Elias, executive director of CAF. The goal of WorldJam, he adds, “is to bring some of those wonderful musical spices and flavors into Cincinnati for the weekend.”
The Nederlander Organization, which books Jammin on Main, will be in charge of production for WorldJam.
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