¡Globalquerque! - New Mexico's Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture

Mark your Calendars!
¡Globalquerque! returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on September 21 and 22, 2012.
(1701 4th St SW, at Avenida César Chávez - Albuquerque, New Mexico)


2011 LINEUP: Baraka Moon (USA/Pakistan/UK) Burkina Electric (Burkina Faso) DePedro (Spain) Felix y Los Gatos (New Mexico) Frigg (Finland/Norway) Gaida (Syria) La Excelencia (New York) Los Amigos Invisibles (Venezuela) Luísa Maita (Brazil) Frank McCulloch y Sus Amigos (New Mexico) Nawal (Comoros) Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) Sergent Garcia (France) Te Vaka (New Zealand/South Pacific) Andrew Thomas (Diné) Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole (Louisiana) Yuri Yunakov Ensemble (Bulgaria)

The next ¡Globalquerque! - September 21 and 22, 2012

NEWS:

2011 Poster
This year's poster art "House of Song" was created by mixed-media mosaic artist Laura Robbins. Click on the image to enlarge, or visit our merchandise page to enjoy and purchase all the previous festival posters.

2011 Poster Art
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Every comment you make qualifies ¡Globalquerque! for a $25K grant!

Looking forward to ¡Globalquerque! 2012

We are excited to be collaborating with ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness for next year's festival. The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art is a major conference and it is an honor and thrill to see it hosted in Albuquerque in 2012. There will be a number of conference tracks around town, including a Latin American track to be held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center alongside ¡Globalquerque!. Aside from the registered conference activities, there will be some free ISEA programs intergrated into the Global Fiesta as well as some other ISEA/¡Globalquerque! surprises to be announced down the road.

Looking back at ¡Globalquerque! 2011

¡Globalquerque! 2011 Community Events

We had so many exciting activities leading up to ¡Globalquerque! that we put up a separate page with information. Check it out here!

Festival Tidbits on YouTube

Revisit past festivals on YouTube. There are roughly 300 ¡Globalquerque! videos to choose from. We are slowly starting to build up a ¡Globalquerque! 2011 playlist too.

¡Globalquerque! Live Broadcast

The ¡Globalquerque! radio broadcast returns in 2011! Special thanks to Sennheiser USA for sponsoring this year's radio broadcast. As always, the broadcast is produced by Southwest Stages, Native Voice 1 and KUNM. This year's hosts are Matthew Finch (KUNM - New Mexico) and festival regular Christy Williams Dunton (KZMU - Moab). They will be joined by guests interviewers from KUNM and other visiting radio friends.

KUNM maintains a 2-week broadcast archive, so click here and dial-in September 16 or 17 from 7 pm to midnight to relive the weekend or hear the pieces that you missed. Don't wait though. It's only up for 2 weeks!

Visitor/Artist Feedback:

"We would like you all to know that in our opinion, your event is the most well put together and overall 'happiest' event we have ever participated in. From the initial contact with Jean to the 'clean up' crew, we saw nothing but professionalism from a wonderful group of happy people. As a vendor—all of our needs, especially electrical :) were met with ease. Of course, the numbers don't lie and we were not disappointed with sales either. In the business that we are in this type of experience is rare, but ¡Globalquerque! has now set the bar for every other event we participate in."
—Felicia Meyer, Firenze Wood-fired Pizza

"My two favorite things about New Mexico are the weather and ¡Globalquerque!."
—Glenn Meizlesh

"¡Globalquerque! continues to be THE music event I consistently look forward to every year."
—Greg Poulter

"I have been to a number of festivals in the last year, including some big ones, and I NEVER have seen the care and consideration that you all invested in making the event a success. I NEVER have seen organizers personally welcoming vendors and then following up, on numerous occasions, to make sure everything were going right. Those extra touches really make a difference and set the tone for a really good vibe."
—Sahara Scrubs (vendor)

"Susana loved the festival and the whole community vibe. It was a pleasure to work in such a friendly and laid back atmosphere."
—Greg Landau (Susana Baca's manager)

"I can't thank you guys enough for creating such an amazing experience over this past weekend. I saw so much happiness, togetherness and celebrating life that my faith in the power of music was restored once again. Dancing to the sounds of Kenge Kenge, being mesmerized by Rahim AlHaj's ensemble, and feeling absolutely blissed out as Olodum had us all singing together are just a few of the memories I'll take away from ¡Globalquerque! 2010. The world is a better place because of ¡Globalquerque! You give people an opportunity to experience some of the most beautiful music in the world, and you provide an amazing venue for gifted artists to do what they do best..."
—Matt Moon (KXCI Tucson)