World Music Guide to Cary

This report was written by Angel Romero.

Record stores

For South Asian (Indian and Pakistani) music, there are two great stores. One is Palika Bazaar, in Chatham Square (Cary). Address: 746 E Chatham St. (near the intersection of Maynard Road), Cary, NC 27511. Phone: (919) 463-0338. There is also Indian Music World located at 1423 S.E. Maynard Road (next to Patel Brothers), Cary, NC 27511. Phone: (919)-388-5789

Live music

The Amphitheatre at Regency Park in Cary presents world music occasionally.

Radio

WNCU 90.7 FM, in Durham, is primarily a jazz station. It has a blues show on Mondays. On weekends you can listen to Gospel, reggae and Latin music.

WSHA 88.9 FM, In Raleigh, plays jazz, blues, African music, Gospel, reggae, R&B and Latin music.

The WUNC 91.5 FM public radio station in Chapel Hill can be heard in nearly half of the state. It broadcasts the sybdicated Celtic music show The Thistle and Shamrock and has a locally  produced show called Back Porch Music during Friday evenings and weekends. It used to include world music, but later it removed it and now it only plays American and English folk, bluegrass, Celtic music and Nordic (European) music.

Mailing list

There is an e-mail list available for people in the Triangle and nearby areas that are interested in upcoming world and Latin music shows. To Subscribe send an email to skorch@skorch.com with the following information:
-- subject "subscribe"
-- your name and email address
-- how you heard of the World Music Email List (in this case: World Music Central)
-- to which list you wish to subscribe (any world music, or Latin American only, or Celtic/English Only).

Publications

Independent Weekly is the local alternative newspaper and entertainment guide. It merged with the Spectator, which was the rival publication.

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