WORLD MUSIC ANNIVERSARIES * 2009 Brings...

- 115 years since John Hardy, of the famous folk song, was hanged.

- 110 years since the birth of Thomas Andrew Dorsey, the son of a revivalist preacher and acknowledged "Father of Gospel Music."

- 45 years since the forming of South Africa's The Mahotella Queens, WOMEX 2000 Award winners.

(Photo: Mahotella Queens by Beate Nelken)