31.   Montgomery, who lives in Van Nuys, admits the songs he writes for his own band lean toward acoustic Celtic folk and world music.

32.   Plans are under way for a weeklong Celebration of Planet Earth, a festival of world music, dance and arts.

33.   People are starting to catch on to world music and Latin sounds.

34.   Preposterously enough, it is now supposed to include jazz, folk, gospel, some new music and some world music.

35.   Rubeli predicted last year that future festivals would feature more world music and little-known blues and jazz artists.

36.   She started teaching it reluctantly at the request of students who attended her aerobics class that employed healthy amounts of world music and ethnic dance.

37.   Shankar was performing at the WOMAD festival in England, a celebration of world music produced by progressive pop artist Peter Gabriel.

38.   She sees an increased interest in world music, whether French, Afro-Caribbean or Eastern European.

39.   She should have a long talk with Barbara Hampton, the director of the ethnomusicology department at Hunter College and the moderator of a panel on world music.

40.   Stephen Petronio, whose company opens a weeklong season at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, is not the first to dip into this enlarged trove of world music.