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Mercan Dede

Mercan Dede believes that when you put digital, electronic sounds together with hand-made, human ones, you can create universal language, capable of uniting old and young, ancient and modern, East and West. It's a bold claim, but the Turkish-born and Montreal-based musician/producer/DJ has the career and the music to back it up. When he takes the stage with his group Secret Tribe, he hovers at the side behind his turntables and electronics, occasionally picking up a traditional wooden flute, or ney to float in sweet...

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Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture

Since 2003, Save the Rhino has held an annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture around the time of his birthday to raise money for rhino conservation projects. The first three lectures were held in conjunction with the Gorilla Organisation (formally the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund), of whom Douglas was also a founder patron. Since 2006 the lectures have been held in conjunction with the Environmental Investigation Agency, a charity that Douglas was also heavily involved with.

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Full Scream Ahead

It's hard to believe that FULL SCREAM AHEAD are brand new on the music scene. Formed in 2008, they have played a handful of impressive live shows around the country, already earning support slots with Attack! Attack!, Lights Action and Twin Atlantic. 2009 is set to be an intensive year for the band. With a brand new 6-track EP We Write Our Own Anthems to promote and more writing and recording on the agenda the band will be working themselves hard - and will not stop until long after the dust settles.

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Satinder Sartaaj

To describe this personality one has to look beyond the scope of the dictionary. He sings in his own style, Punjabi culture lives in the writings of this personality, his sufi thoughts goes deep in his poetry, everyone gets lost in his composition. Once he starts MEHFIL, everyone gets glued to their seats. Satinder Sartaaj born at village Bajrawar, distt. Hoshiarpur (Punjab eastern). Living in the sleepy village as a child Satinder hooked to the melody emanating from the Flute and Sarangi of the wandering folk artists.

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Sain Zahoor

The infamous attempts of the Taliban to eradicate music from the social and cultural landscape of Afghanisatan ended in happy failure, but their puritanical zeal still thrives in the region. All the more reason to celebrate the continued existence of various Pakistani and Afghani musical traditions which all owe their spiritual fire to the Sufi path of Islam. Of these, the music of the qawwali is well known and documented throughout the world, but there is a more obscure breed of 'street' singers who still practise their art at the shrines and festivals of Pakistan and Northern India.

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The Soviets

The Soviets are a 5-piece Indie/Rock band from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. With influences ranging from the Stone Roses to Astral Pilot via Kings of Leon, the band fuses genres to create a distinctive and unique sound.
Launching their own label - Reckless General Records - in early 2009, The Soviets are a band to look out for. The name is also used by an Alt. Rock band from Omagh.

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