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Jessica Skelton
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I’ve always dreamed of living the life of a musician: traveling all over the world, performing every night and experiencing music from other cultures. Unfortunately, I’m not the most experienced musician. However, musically disinclined folks can still appreciate how music provides a unique understanding of new cultures and destinations around the world.

 

The new guidebook from Museyon Guides, Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sounds and Scenes, explores 12 cities through their native music scenes and will satisfy your inner rock star. This book is unlike your run-of-the-mill travel guide—it’s a hybrid guidebook and crash course in world music. Music + Travel Worldwide will take you from Buenos Aires, where cumbia evolved, to Paris, where hip-hop and Muslim identity fuse together for an eclectic sound.

 

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Photo: Museyon Press

 

The guidebook, available at bookstores and online on November 3, will include:

 

  • Chapters on 12 music scenes from around the world

 

  • In-depth articles written by local experts, including recording artists, music journalists and other industry insiders

 

  • Music sidebars and travel tips, including book, movie, album and magazine recommendations  

 

  • 246 color photos

 

 

Tell TravelMuse about some of your favorite musically inspired trips.

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Ashleigh Nushawg
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Could Branson, Mo., become the Beatles’ Graceland? Louise Harrison, sister of the late and great George Harrison, has found a welcoming home for all things Beatles in the unsuspecting Midwestern city. Her first Beatles project in Branson has been a real success. Liverpool Legends The Ultimate Beatles Experience is a tribute to the Fab Four and the group plays close to five shows a week. In 2006 and 2007, the Experience was voted “Best Show” and the Legends voted “Best Band” in Branson.

 

Courtesy of the Liverpool Legends

 

However, it is Harrison’s next big plan for Branson that will really get Beatles lovers everywhere to swoon. She announced plans on Aug. 20 to open a Beatles museum in Branson by Spring 2009. It will be filled with Beatles’ memorabilia, much of which will come from her personal collection and has never been displayed before to the public. What makes this museum even more notable is that it will be the first Beatles museum in the United States.

 

The Beatles Museum will be part of the Starlite Theater, the current home of the Liverpool Legends. When complete, the five-story glass atrium will feature its own flying yellow submarines, strawberry fields (forever), some of London’s emblematic red phone booths, Penny Lane and the famous crosswalk on Abbey Road.

 

So grab your LP’s, Nehru jackets and love beads, and head on down to Branson.

 

Be sure to check out this week’s TravelMuse Branson issue—from where to stay and eat, to the best family shows to see and, of course, its famous Christmas festival. TravelMuse will be bringing you all the insider information about planning a great trip to this Midwest entertainment mecca.

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