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The 11th Annual World Music Festival: Chicago runs from Friday, September 18 through Thursday, September 24, 2009.The 2009 festival line-up features 55 events at 21 venues. Many events are family friendly, half are admission free and the remaining half are $15 or less. Events include 6 live radio broadcasts and a mix of free and ticketed concerts presented in museums, parks, cultural centers, plazas, theaters, clubs and other venues throughout Chicago.  The 2009 festival also features 57 artists representing 32 countries including Algeria, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Congo, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Hungary, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Aditya Prakash

Millennium Park will host 5 free, daytime concerts September 21-24 at noon at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. World Music Festival: Chicago 2009 is presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and is made possible with generous support from: the National Endowment for the Arts; the Chicago Office of Tourism; and United, the Official Airline of the World Music Festival. For more information, visit www.WorldMusicFestivalChicago.org or call the World Music Festival Hotline at 312.742.1938 for daily updates. 

For more information visit: www.WorldMusicFestivalChicago.org

Friday, September 18

• Continental Drift on WNUR 89.3 FM, Markus James and the Wassonrai, Watcha Clan, the pai no pai
  12 noon - 2 pm, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
• the pai no pai
  7 pm, Navy Pier: FREE
• Steve Gibons Gypsy Rhythm Project, Sloboda
  Latvian Cultural Center: $15 Suggested Donation (Studenta $10, Kids $8)
  7 pm: Ethnic Dance Chicago Dance Lesson
  8:30 pm: concert
• Mostar Sevdah Reunion presents Ilijaz Delic
  8pm, Old Town School of Folk Music: $15 general, $13 members
• Markus James and The Wassonrai, Mar Caribe
  8pm, Uncommon Ground: $5 donation
  
• Watcha Clan
  9:10 pm – 11pm, Navy Pier: FREE
• Cara Dillon
  9 pm, World Music Company: $15
• Bêabá do Samba
  10 pm, Uncommon Ground: $10 suggested donation
• Cheb I Sabbah, Red Baraat, Radiohiro
  10pm, Martrys’: $12

Saturday, September 19

Marta Gomez

• Cara Dillon
  1pm, Navy Pier: FREE
• Kusun Ensemble
  3 pm, Rogers Park World Music Festival: FREE
• Guy Mendilow Band
  3 pm, Navy Pier: FREE
• Red Baraat
  6 pm, Navy Pier: FREE
  
• Cara Dillon, Kusun Ensemble, Chicago Afrobeat Project
  7 pm, Edgewater GRalley Festival: $10 suggested donation
• Orchestra of Tetouan, Al Sham Ensemble
  7:30 pm, Museum of Contemporary Art: $15
• Maria de Barros, Markus James and The Wassonrai
  8 pm, Old Town School of Folk Music: $15 general, $13 members
• Fool’s Gold
  9 pm, Navy Pier: FREE
• Turntables On The Hudson, DJ Shannon Harris, DJ Striz
  9 pm, Sonotheque: $10
• Parno Graszt, Mostar Sevdah Reunion presents Ilijaz Delic
  10 pm, Martyr’s: $12

Sunday, September 20

L’Orchestre Super Vitesse

• Steve Gibons Gypsy Rhythm Project
  12 Noon, MIllennium Park: FREE
• Little Cow
  1 pm, Navy Pier: FREE
• Phyllis Chen
  3 pm, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
• Chicago Afrobeat Project
  4 pm, Navy Pier:  FREE
• Orchestra of Tetouan
  Presented in part by Partisans Arts International.
  8 pm, University of Chicago’s International House: $10 general, Students $5
• Forro In The Dark, Jair Oliveira, DJ Peter Margasak
  8 pm, Martyr’s: $12
• Luminescent Orchestrii, Fishtank Ensemble
  8 pm, Old Town School of Folk Music: $15 general, $13 members
  
• BLK JKS, Fool’s Gold
  9 pm, Bottom Lounge: $12 
• Electric Junkyard Gamelan, Guy Mendilow
  8 pm, Uncommon Ground: $10 suggested donation
• Parno Grazt, Little Cow, Megitza Quartet
  9 pm, Hideout: $12
• Watcha Clan, DJ Papa G
  9 pm, Sonotheque: $10

Monday, September 21

Fishtank Ensemble

Continental Drift featuring BLK JKS, Blick Bassy, Jair Oliveira 

• 12 Noon - 2 pm, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
• Electric Junkyard Gamelan
  12 Noon, Daley Plaza: FREE
• Yves Francois et Rocambu Jazz
  12 Noon, Millennium Park: FREE
• Mehter Ottoman Turkish MIlitary Band
  6:30 pm, Millennium Park: FREE
• Jair Oliveira, Blick Bassy
  8 pm, Martyrs’: $10
• BLK JKS, L'Orchestre Super Vitesse
  9 pm, Hideout: $12
• Paulinho Garcia
  9 pm, Uncommon Ground: $10 donation

Tuesday, September 22

Markus James & The Wassonrai

• Continental Drift featuring Marta Gomez Quartet, Mikrokolektyw, Kiko Klaus
  12 noon - 2 pm, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
• Guitarra Azul
  12 pm, Jay Pritzker Pavilion: FREE
• Mikrokolektyw
  5:30 pm, Museum of Contemporary Art: FREE
  
• Blick Bassy, Kiko Klaus
  6:30 pm, Kelvyn Park: FREE
  
• Marta Gomez Quartet
  7 pm, Columbia College Conaway Center: FREE
  
• Sound Culture Presents Los De Abajo & Los Vicios de Papa
  8 pm, Green Dolphin Street: $12
• Dame Pa'Matala, Mohammed P.R., Rebel Diaz
• Presented in part by Partisans Arts International.
  8 pm, Martyrs': FREE
• Magic Carpet
  9 pm, Uncommon Ground: $10 suggested donation
  

Wednesday, September 23

• Continental Drift featuring Rhythm of Rajasthan, Momo
  12 Noon - 2 pm, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
• Chicago Korean Music Ensemble
  12 Noon, Millennium Park: FREE
• Tambours Sans Frontieres
  6:30 PM, Washington Park: FREE
• Snehasish Mozumder & Subrata Bhattacharya
  7 pm, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
• Vlada Tomova's Balkan Tales
  7 pm, Columbia College Conaway Center: FREE
  

  Orchestra of Tetouan
  
  
• Hanggai, Rahim Alhaj
  8 pm, Martyrs’: $10
• Rhythm of Rajasthan 
  8:30 pm, Old Town School of Folk Music: FREE
• Momo, Kiko Klaus
  9pm, Empty Bottle: $10

Thursday, September 24

• Continental Drift featuring Rahim Alhaj, Vlada Tomova's Balkan Tales and Aditya Prakash
  12 Noon - 2 pm, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
• Tambours Sans Frontieres
  12 Noon, Jay Pritzker Pavilion: FREE
• One World Under One Roof: World Music Festival Open House and International Market Place
  featuring Mikrokolektyw, Momo, Idilio, Tambours Sans Frontieres, Vlada Tomova’s Balkan Tales, Klappa Lisnjak, Rahim Alhaj, Aditya Prakash Ensemble and more.
  6:30 PM – 11:30 PM, Chicago Cultural Center: FREE
  

For more information visit: www.WorldMusicFestivalChicago.org

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