Friday, September 17, 1999
WorldJam bets diversity will lure music fans
BY LARRY NAGER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Combine familiar headliners with exotic, international performers and you have WorldJam, the new, free music festival that takes over Fifth Street downtown Oct. 9-10.
The Neville Brothers and Robert Cray & the Memphis Horns are the biggest names (both appear Oct. 9).
With New Orleans funk and Memphis soul-blues accounted for, WorldJam explores beyond the mainstream. Hungary's Marta Sebestyn & Muzsikas; Ghana's Odadaa; Ecuador's Andes Manta; the all-female Caribbean group Retumba; and American singer Trish Murphy are also featured.
While WorldJam's producer, Cincinnati Arts Festival Inc., is thinking globally, it's also booking locally, putting some of the area's top world-beaters on the bill: Louisiana sounds from Robin Lacy & DeZydeco and Lagniappe; salsa/jazz from Latin X-Posure; the new-age gypsy textures of New Europa Troubadours and Mohenjodaro; Southern gospel from Charles Fold Singers; the Eastern European shtetl stylings of the Cincinnati Klezmer Project; Native American folk by Ginny Frazier's Circles & Arrows.
WorldJam will also be hands-on, with workshops in dancing, drumming and pan-pipe making.
The biggest WorldJam innovation is Hesefetasm (“hear, see, feel, taste, smell”) World. Geared to kids 8-10, Hesefetasm World will be set up in the bus shelters on Government Square, where passports will lead into sensory experiences of world culture.
Ethnic foods and crafts will also be part of WorldJam, beginning 2 p.m. daily and running to 11 p.m. Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10.
Information: 588-6775.
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