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Rachael Ray’s Spotlight on Latin Party!

Rachael Ray invited Food Network Chef Daisy Martinez to her show, where in addition to sharing a delicious recipe for chicken enchiladas, they served up a lot of praise for Putumayo and Latin Party! Daisy contributes a recipe for Cleriquot, an Argentine cocktail, to  the liner notes of the CD.

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Putumayo Congratulates 2010 Grammy Winners!

Putumayo congratulates our friends Dobet Gnahore, Buckwheat Zydeco, and A.R. Rahman for their 2010 Grammy awards!

Best Urban/Alternative Performance: ‘Pearls’ - India.Arie & Dobet Gnahore (featured on  Women of Africa, Acoustic Africa, and Music from the Chocolate Lands)

Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album: ‘Lay Your Burden Down’ - Buckwheat Zydeco (featured on Zydeco, New Orleans Playground, [...]

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Putumayo = Whole World Music

Whole Foods featured Putumayo founder and CEO, Dan Storper on their blog yesterday. Check out the introduction below, and read the full article by clicking here!

Around here, we feel like Putumayo World Music and Whole Foods Market kind of grew up together. In celebration of our 30th birthday this year, we asked Dan Storper, founder [...]

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Putumayo on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon pokes fun at Putumayo and Wholefoods at around 6:40 in his thank you bit Check it out!

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SOUND TRACKS: Music Without Borders

Imagine a new primetime PBS series that explores the world, combining journalistic curiosity with the adventure of travel and the soul-satisfying, hip-shaking pleasures of great music.

Sound Tracks explores how music is transforming politics and culture around the globe. The one-hour pilot serves up a diverse menu of Russian pop, afrobeat, Portuguese fado, and symphonic music.
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Golbang Performance at Bowery Poetry Club this Saturday, 2 pm

When I was in Stockholm a couple of months ago, the highlight of the trip was a performance by an Iranian-Scandinavian fusion group called Golbang.  The beautiful vocals in Persian mixed with a killer group of Swedish and African instrumentalists created one of the most fascinating hybrids I’ve heard in years. They’re visiting the US [...]

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globalFEST | January 10, 2010 / Webster Hall, NYC

For seven years globalFEST (www.globalfest-ny.org) has been the springboard festival for world music artists on the brink of North American national main stage success, performers known in one community but ready to cross into others, and the marquee stars of tomorrow. globalFEST 2010 showcases French Gypsy jazz with breakbeats, cumbia-fied downtempo Argentine club sounds, soul-stirring [...]

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Putumayo’s Year End Holiday Post!

We decided to check in with some of our favorite artists about their thoughts on the holidays, how they like to spend them and any memorable moments that they cared to share.  Read more below to see what some of the responses were.

“I have so many wonderful memories of Christmas and the holidays here in [...]

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December 10th - Human Rights Day 2009

Human Rights Day 2009 on 10 December will focus on non-discrimination. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”. These first few famous words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights established 60 years ago the basic premise of international human rights law. Yet today, the fight against discrimination remains a [...]

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Dilan - A True Life Miracle

We at Putumayo love to hear from the people who benefit directly from the non-profit work to which we contribute.  This weekend we received a letter about a child named Dilan that we thought to share with you during this holiday season.  Putumayo is pleased to support United for Colombia, the non-profit that aided Dilan. [...]