New World order dominate line up for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival

By Tim Cornwell [The Scotsman, 18 March 2010]
THE voices of the New World return to the old in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival.
A flamboyant, colourful, thunderous line-up focused on Latin America and the United States ranges from the Grammy award-winning gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama, to Australian opera, Brazilian dance and some of the world’s greatest orchestras.