The New Orleans Carnival season—which begins on January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, and culminates on Fat Tuesday—is a sacred cultural practice shaped by centuries of history, diverse faith traditions, and deep-rooted community collaboration.
The 2026 Super Bowl and the rise of artist residencies have reinforced that Latin American music is at the center of the global mainstream. This shift suggests that more people are ready to move past surface-level experiences toward travel grounded in listening and respect.
Brazil’s geography is as vast as its musical catalog, ranging from the baroque colonial influences in Minas Gerais to the complex, polyrhythmic traditions of the Northeast and the avant-garde experiments in the southern metropolises.
Almost nine years ago, I came home from my first trip to Iceland and wrote a…
Iceland, however, exists on a different timeline. It is a landscape defined by raw, unfinished earth, a place where the physical world is still in the process of being made. For an artist, this environment offers a rare psychological alignment. When the world around you is in a state of creation, it becomes significantly easier to create.
German Christmas Markets: A 2026 Guide
