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Why write for Fly?
We are building a team of authors from around the world. We want to hear from people who are passionate about music and want to share that passion with everyone else. Since we started in 1995, many writers and other contributors to Fly have gone on to build great careers with the start they had on Fly and many of these writers are still with us.

We encourage ideas for reviews, city guides and features relating to local music from around the world, jazz, hip hop, beats and reggae. We are also interested in art, graphics, photography and cinema where there is a musical angle to be explored.

Reviews
We cover a wide range of music and we are interested in reviews spanning jazz, roots, hip hop, beats and reggae. We are also interested in reviews of world cinema, DVDs, books and live concerts that people have attended. Reviews should be about 150 - 300 words long and should be emailed to Fly for consideration. If accepted, reviewers will be given access to our system and will be able to put their own reviews into Fly to await publishing. The whole system is very easy and should mean your work is published swiftly.

Features
These tend to be longer than reviews, normally 500 - 1000 words and will be an in-depth look at a subject that interests you (such as Thomas Pappon’s piece on undiscovered musical gems from Brazil) or an interview with a musician or cultural force such as Angelique Kidjo. Again feature writers should either email the piece to Fly for consideration or an outline of what you propose to write.

City Guides/Events
We want (rather ambitiously) to become THE destination for people looking to get a grip on what is going on around the world in terms of local music scenes and festivals. So if you live somewhere with a buzzing music scene, why not become its unofficial chronicler by regularly updating your local guide to the music scene, where to go, good local bands to watch out for, upcoming gigs and music festivals, clubs etc. We will provide you with an easy way to publish your guide whenever you want to update it. If you show your guide to local venues, they may well give you the odd free ticket too!

Rights
All Fly’s writers and staff are volunteers. One day soon no doubt we’ll be besieged by advertisers and sponsors offering money to us. Until then, we are unlikely to be in a position to pay contributors. You will however, get our deepest thanks and access to lots of readers who will read your despatches with eagerness and appreciation.

Articles are jointly copyrighted. You have the right to republish your article in another journal, magazine or book, however we ask for a one-week exclusive. We have signed up to Creative Commons License to allow others to share the work but only if it is attributed.

Got an idea?
Please take some time and read what we currently have on the site. This will give you an invaluable idea of what we cover, tone and length. Please note that since we started in 1995, other magazines have come along using the name Fly so be sure we are the same one you intend writing for. The Fly for example covers indie music but we don’t.

Send a proposal idea or finished piece telling us: why you think we should publish your review/feature/city guide, why you’ve got the expertise to write it and why our readers will want to read it.

Please include contact information: mailing address, phone numbers, and email address.

Proposals should be sent in plain text and included in the body of the email. Please do not send attachments. Do not assume that just because you submit a proposal that the idea or article will be published. Email us at contributors-at-flyglobalmusic.com replacing the ‘at’ with an @ symbol.

Alternatively, please click onto our guide for sending material in if you have music, books or DVDs to be reviewed.

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I have written countless articles. In depth analysis of music genres and promoted Tanzanian Hip Hop Bongo Flavor.

In just few days to come I will be with you.

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I saw a refernce to Simon Skolfield on your web-site
( great site BTW !). I know this is a strange request but I am trying to contact his brother David who was the drummer in our band which signed with EMI in 1973. We are hoping for a reunion and if Simon could pass a message to Dave Skolfield to contact the band I would be most grateful. ( That is as long as your Simon Skolfield is same person who worked for George Martin at Air Studios in The 70’s. Thanks and apologies for using your site as a contact post . Regards Peter

Dear Music Lover.How do you submit listings here?We are having Jeremy Pelt Group coming over from N.Y. on 25th and 26th of April to play at Charlie Wrights International (www.myspace.com/charliewrights). We also having “Findamorale Festival” at the beginning of June with groups lead by Victor Bailey,Matthew Garrison, Paco Sery,Amit Chatterjee among many others.Charlie Wrights International is a great new venue in Hoxton.For example Robert Glasper gig which is listed on this website is alreday sold out.So,I just want to list our future events here, as it’s look like an appropriate website for this kind of stuff. Thank you a lot, Best, Zhenya

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CONCERT PAMELA CONTRERAS
Music from the coast of peru

Pamela Contreras, avec son CD Un poco de Lima, nous ouvre simultanément deux portes : celle du plaisir, et celle de la connaissance.
La porte du plaisir tout d’abord : la voix de Pamela, cette voix qui, au début du chant s’élève presque comme un murmure, le murmure d’une source. Puis le chant se développe, et la source devient canto intense, dévoilant une rare sensibilité, habitée pat une force contenue peu commune. Ainsi la voix donne-t-elle alors corps à la mélodie, et tout son souffle aux paroles brûlantes de ces poèmes de la mémoire douloureuse, devenus chants de liberté et de la mémoire vive. Puissance de la chair et du souffle.

Et là s’ouvre la deuxième porte. Les mélodies que Pamela nous fait découvrir sont - tout comme leurs deux auteurs - à peu près inconnues en France. On doit donc la remercier de nous faire découvrir Chabuca Granda, compositrice issue d’une famille aristocratique de Lima, qui, au début des années soixante, rompt avec le registre traditionaliste qui était le sien pour s’engager sur une voie beaucoup plus risquée. Ainsi, inspirée par les idées du Che, compose-t-elle, entre autres les “Temas a los motivos de la muerte de Javier Héraud”, en l’honneur du jeune poète et guerillero péruvien Xavier Heraud, mort les armes à la main dans la jungle amazonienne. Elle compose aussi un cycle en hommage à la compositrice chilienne Violeta Parra. À travers cet engagement, Chabuca Granda renouvelle complètement son style et atteint une qualité mélodique qui n’échappera pas aux auditeurs de ce CD.

Le second auteur que Pamela nous fait découvrir est Daniel “Kiri” Escobar, héritier de la deuxième période de Chabuca Granda, dont il fut un ami. Kiri a longtemps milité au Pérou dans les mouvements populaires et les organisations syndicales. Certaines de ses chansons sont devenues populaires au Pérou, beaucoup plus par le bouche à oreille que par les médias.

À ceux qui pensaient pouvoir reléguer l’héritage guévariste au musée des illusions perdues, Pamela apporte, avec ce CD, le plus cinglant - et le plus plaisant - des démentis. Le combat du peuple pour ses droits et ses libertés continue d’être, pour tout artiste digne de ce nom, une source d’inspiration.

Pamela sera donc au Théâtre LE ROYAL , le vendredi 06 Novembre à 20h30, avec Jean Luc Favre à la contrebasse, José “Kike” LARREA à la guitare, Miguel BALLUMBROSIO au cajon, et Jaime ALEDO au piano.