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Machel tops world music awards (Trinidad Express)

big winner: Soca Superstar, Machel Montano, poses with his awards after taking home the Best Calypso/Soca Entertainer, Most Outstanding Stage Personality of the Year and the much-coveted, Bob Marley Entertainer of the Year Awards, at the International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMAs) ceremony, held last weekend at the Apollo Theatre in New York.

A unique concert of world music (Queens Courier)

The sound of music will fill the Free Synagogue of Flushing when choirs from nine diverse houses of worship come together for an Interfaith Choral Festival on Sunday, May 18.

Country music legend Eddy Arnold dead at 89 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Eddy Arnold, country music's "Tennessee Plowboy," whose rendition of "Make the World Go Away" was an international hit in the 1960s, died on Thursday at age 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness.

Eddy Arnold, 89, country music star (International Herald Tribune)

Arnold personified the evolution of country music in the years after World War II, from a rural vernacular to an idiom with broad mainstream appeal.

Warner Music Drops on Wider Loss, Suspended Dividend (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Warner Music Group Corp., the world's third-largest record company, posted its biggest drop in New York Stock Exchange trading after reporting a wider second- quarter loss and suspending its quarterly dividend.