The Daniel Pearl World Music Days is a universal network of events held each year to help build tolerance and bridge cultural divides through music. The event’s namesake was a journalist and musician who was executed in Pakistan in 2002 while reporting on a story. The Belleville Outfit, an eclectic and exciting new bluegrass group in town, led by fiddler Phoebe Hunt, celebrates the end of the festivities on tonight at the Parish. Warren Hood and BettySoo open.

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