Tony Green Times-Union music writer Phil Stanton has a theory.
Places represented include Latin America, China, the Caribbean, Africa, Cambodia and India.
Festivalgoers can learn to merengue, watch a Chinese lion dance and listen to Afro-Caribbean storytelling. Free overnight docking for boaters. Even if none of them had any idea what this music was, or where it came from, I think a lot of them would like it,'' said the British-born Stanton, president of England's World Music Network, a world music resource center. Stanton's scene is hypothetical, but it does contain an element of truth. For proof, look no further than the annual World of Nations Festival, set to kick off today at Metropolitan Park.