Austin Music Map: World Music Night at Halcyon
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Monday nights at Halcyon might be the closest thing Austin has to a United Nations. Representatives from Mexico, China, India, Lebanon, and a dozen other countries come together. But then instead of debating global policy, they play music. Because this is Austin, after all.
The weekly international gathering was founded a year and a half ago by Roberto Riggio—a violinist who grew up in Mexico City and the Rio Grande Valley, before moving to Austin to study Indian and Middle Eastern music at the University of Texas. The Halcyon night is like a workshop, Riggio says, and a chance for Austin-based musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds to explore how music traditions from all over the world collide and overlap.
Today we drop in on a recent evening at Halcyon and learn more about how the World Music Night got started.
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