Mariza News

Talvin Singh ... touring with Niladri Kumar. Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight This is a busy time for the Waterson/Carthy clan, with Martin Carthy celebrating his 70th birthday at London's South Bank on 14 May, and his daughter Eliza Carthy back on tour in May and June.

Long dismissed as "hidebound and resistant to change," fado music is enjoying a revival via "an explosion of new voices, most of them female," reports Larry Rohter in the New York Times .

Mariza is bringing "Fado Tradicional," her fifth and newest studio album, to Istanbul with a live performance this week at Is Sanat.

Mayor Daley shows his granddaughter Maggie Conroy, 2, one of the Cows on Parade statue outside U.S. Cellular Field in this Oct.