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New York's World Music Institute announced its lineup of concerts and workshops for Fall 2006 earlier this week. The events will include performances from Persian kamancheh master Kayhan Kalhor, Spanish flamenco troupe Son de la Frontera, and Indian slide guitar virtuoso Debashish Bhattacharya (pictured). The season will also offer recurring, multi-part "festivals" featuring different artists on different evenings, such as the NY Gypsy Festival and the Festival of India. Events will be held at different venues around Manhattan, including the Nokia Theatre, NYU's Skirball Center, Symphony Space, Town Hall and Carnegie Hall.

Since its founding in 1985, World Music Institute has built the most comprehensive concert series of traditional music and dance in the United States, and has included music from more than 70 countries and ethnic minorities in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, The Americas and the Middle East as well as regional music from throughout North America. WMI presents more than 60 concerts a year in New York City. For more information on venues and showtimes, consult the World Music Network website.

World Music Institute Fall 2006 Events:

September 16th: Persian Classical Music: Parissa & the Dastan Ensemble

September 29th: NY Gypsy Festival—Gypsy Music of Romania: Taraf Costel Vasilescu

September 30th: NY Gypsy Festival—Hungarian Gypsy Music & Dance: Honvéd Dance Co.

October 1st: NY Gypsy Festival—Flamenco Gitano: Son de la Frontera

October 5th: Interpretations: Amelia Cuni & Werner Durand / Miya Masaoka Fri 6 SS Festival of India – Kathak Dance: Pandit Birju Maharaj with Saswati Sen

October 7th: Persian and Turkish Improvisations: Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan

October 12th: Estonian Song: Vagilasad

October 13th: Festival of India – Sitar & Sarod: Kushal Das / K. Sridhar

October 14th: Spirit of Fes—Sacred Music of East & West: Susan Hellauer, Aruna Sairam, Curro & Carlos Piñana, Jamey Haddad, Daqqa of Taroudant

October 19th: Queen of Lithuanian Folk Songs: Veronika Povilioniene & Blezdinga

October 20th: Shomyo Chant for Peace: Japanese Buddhist Monks

October 21 Festival of India—Slide Guitar & Sitar: Debashish Bhattacharya /Purbayan Chatterjee

October 22th: Celtic Fiddle Festival: Kevin Burke, Christian Lemaitre & Andre Brunet

October 28th: Festival of India—Sitar Duets: Manilal Nag & Mita Nag

November 4th: Mongolia Meets New Orleans: Roswell Rudd & the Mongolian Buryat Band

November 9th: Interpretations: Roscoe Mitchell / Connie Crothers

November 10th: The Conga Kings: Candido Camero, Carlos "Patato" Valdez, Giovanni Hidalgo

November 11th: Tango! Pablo Aslan's Avantango

November 15th: Festival of India—Sarod: Rajeev Taranath

November 16th: World Music Improvisations: Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures

November 18th: Friends of Old Time Music: Doc Watson / New Lost City Ramblers/John Sebastian

December 3rd: Voice of Greece: Haris Alexiou