The Global Village

Martha Wainwright will play a few songs live during the Global Village ahead of her show that night at The Basement!

Ryan Bingham is out on the road in support of his latest release Tomorrowland and he'll be making a stop by WCBE to play live for us!

Tune in for a live session with local musician Matt Monta during the Global Village. He's got his new solo debut CD American Rhymin' and we'll get a little preview of what's to come on Saturday night at The Tree Bar for his CD release show!  Micah Schnabel, Eric Nassau and Joshua P. James & The Paper Planes will also perform on Saturday...good times!  Listen live!

The Lions' members share a strong love of classic, Jamaican-inspired reggae. Hailing from different musical generations, the L.A. band's members craft a unique style which blends hip-hop and reggae with electrifying dub rhythms. Although the lineup has changed since The Lions' beginnings, the music has remained explosive and alluring.

With a career spanning more than 30 years, English musician Billy Bragg blends folk, rock and punk with messages about politics and love. His new album Tooth & Nail is his first release in five years.

East Nashville's Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors will play a few songs for us during the Global Village ahead of their show that night at The Basement! 

Tune in for a live session with British musician Kate Nash and a chance to win tickets to the sold out show at The A&R Music Bar! 

Tune in to hear a live performance from Sean Rowe during the Global Village!  

L.A.'s Milo Greene will perform live for us during the Global Village ahead of their show that night at The Basement! 

Cody Diekhoff aka Chicago Farmer will join us live during the Global Village! 

Local musician Stephanie Jeffreys will perform a few songs live for us during the Global Village. 

For a guy who gets tagged with a lot of limiting descriptors — "freak folk," "hippie" and so forth — Devendra Banhart doesn't like to let his music sit in any spot for long. His catalog, which now includes seven official albums, has taken him through warmly intimate ballads, raw and unselfconsciously strange home recordings, songs in several languages (Banhart spent much of his childhood in Venezuela), a lot of smoothly strummy folk-pop and the occasional low-key anthem about free-spiritedness.

Please join us for The Eighth Annual Townes Van Zandt Tribute & Benefit For WCBE! 

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Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, the husband and wife duo behind Whitehorse, will perform a few songs live during the Global Village ahead of their show that night at The Basement!

Whitey Morgan and the 78's are a honky tonk country band based in Flint, MI.

Founded by brothers Rev. Gean West and Tommie West, The Relatives first surfaced in the 1970s with the single "Walking On." With its rhythmic fusion of traditional gospel and psychedelic funk, the quintet became known for its energetic live performances. However, the group disbanded in 1980, disappearing from the music world without so much as a full studio album to its name — until now.

Eilen Jewell will play a few songs during the Global Village ahead of her show that night at Natalie's Coal Fired Pizza! 

As one of the most thoughtful singer-songwriters around, Josh Ritter isn't one to write angry, over-the-top, knee-jerk breakup songs — even though his new album, The Beast in Its Tracks, was written entirely in response to his own recent divorce. Gentility and empathy are wired into Ritter's songwriting, so his idea of a breakup anthem is the gorgeous and glorious "Joy to You Baby," in which he closes the book on a relationship by wishing everyone well, himself included.

Richard Thompson started playing in "The British Byrds," Fairport Convention, when he was only 17.