Africa: La Brigida Orquestra – Playing for “The Big Minority”

[Afropop] Perhaps the best thing about the annual WOMEX conference is that it’s like going to a delicious buffet where you can fill your ears with samples of musical cuisines from around the globe. If you’re a person who has a taste for music outside of the Western mainstream, thanks to programs like Afropop Worldwide, and the internet, you can be in Boston and listen to Burundian beats or in Bangladesh and get your fix of Brazilian samba. And as we find ourselves living in a world with all these delicacies, the dis