Alverno College's free world music festival Global Union returns to Bay View's Humboldt Park this year with an eclectic two-day lineup. In recent years as...

Alverno College's free world music festival Global Union returns to Bay View's Humboldt Park this year with an eclectic two-day lineup. In recent years...

“This is the first time we've ever brought anyone back,” says David Ravel. The artistic director of Global Union...

Alverno College’s free world music festival Global Union concludes its two-day program this year in Bay View’s Humboldt Park with another eclectic lineup. Today’s performers include the Celtic/electronica/reggae band Delhi 2 Dublin at 1...

Alverno College’s free world music festival Global Union returns to Bay View’s Humboldt Park this year with an eclectic two-day lineup. Today’s headliners are the gypsy brass band Mahala Rai Banda at 1 p.m., the bachata artist Joan Soriano...

The free, annual Global Union festival in Bay View’s Humboldt Park concludes today with performances from the Indian brass funk band Red Baraat, at 1 p.m.; the Chinese throat-singing/punk fusion ensemble Hanggai, at 2:30 p.m.; and Ethiopian singer and dancer Minyeshu, who updates the traditional music of her native country with the contemporary...

From their political beginnings as the 80-piece group the All-American Anti-War Marching Band, Mucca Pazza has evolved into the biggest party act in the Midwest, playing sets that unfold as full-fledged halftime shows. The ensemble, now pruned to a still impressive 30-or-so members, dresses in marching-band uniforms, complete with cheerleaders, and has earned gigs on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and at Lollapalooza. With their gypsy music undertones...

“World music” doesn’t mean the same thing it meant just decades ago, when the term referred to ethnographic field recordings. “It used to be world music was something that was regarded as quote-unquote ‘pure expressions’ of specific cultures and regions,” explains David Ravel, director of Milwaukee’s annual Global Union festival. “But we don’t live in...

With hopes of better weather than last year, when rain put a good-sized dent in attendance, Alverno College released the lineup for its 2009 Global Union festival, a two-day world-music concert in Bay View's Humboldt Park. With just six headliners, the lineup is smaller than in recent years, but it's typically varied: � Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 Mucca Pazza:  1 p.m....