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World Music Fest is a colorful gift to Chico
Pamela Kather’s Suzuki Youth fiddle students on the Kids Stage, Saturday.
PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
Grooving to Reckoning’s bluegrass version of the Grateful Dead at the Sycamore Stage.
PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
Katia Moraes with her band Sambaguru, keeping the Sycamore Stage crowd on its feet on Saturday with Brazilian dance music.
PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
Longtime Chico musician Jerry Morano provides percussion for the new local acoustic Spanish/Mexican-music outfit, Los Caballitos de la Cancion. Sycamore Stage, Sunday.
PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
West African Highlife Band’s Soji Odukogbe (left) and Baba Ken Okulolo on the Sycamore Stage, Saturday.
PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
Twelve-year-old country singer McKenna Gardner, of the Chico School of Rock, sings and strums a tune on the Kids Stage, Sunday.
PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
LoCura close out the Chico World Music Festival on the Sycamore Stage.
PHOTO BY ALAN SHECKTER
We talk a lot about Chico Performances, the public-events arm of Chico State that is responsible for bringing the bulk of the world-class music that makes its way to our little isolated city—Ziggy Marley, Elvis Costello, Angélique Kidjo are a few on this year’s schedule. But probably the most fun and energizing event that promoter Dan DeWayne and his crew put on features artists of a much smaller profile—many local, in fact—and is completely free. This past weekend, was the 19th year of the Chico World Music Fest, and the east side of campus was packed with international music, food, crafts and art. Longtime fest-goer Alan Sheckter joined the grooving crowd and captured some of the colorful fun.
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