Gamelan: Jan 18, 2021: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Boubacar Traore: Jan 11, 2021: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Debashish Bhattacharya: Jan 04, 2021: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Armenia: Dec 28, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Reza Shajarian: Dec 21, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Invisible System, Bantou Mentale: Dec 14, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Pandit Jasraj: Dec 07, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Kenya: Nov 30, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Chemirani Family: Nov 23, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Shakti: Nov 16, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

Nigeria: Nov 09, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. F...

20201102: Nov 02, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

Ali Akbar Khan, Asha Bhosle: Oct 26, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Rabih Abou-Khalil: Oct 19, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Rabih Abou-Khalil is a musician and composer who hails from Lebanon. He plays the Oud and flute fusing his traditional Arab music with elements of jazz and even classical, having recorded one album wi...

Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss: Oct 15, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Touareg Women: Oct 01, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Ghana Grooves: Sep 24, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Glen Velez: Sep 14, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Dennis Darrah hosts music from around the world. This week: Glen Velez is a percussionist who has explored the many frame drums that one finds in all musical traditions around the world. He has record...

Ravi Shankar: Sep 07, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

We continue this week again celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ravi Shankar's birth by featuring selections from two concerts given within the last year or so of his life at the age of 91. The first...

Ravi Shankar: Aug 31, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Today we feature music by the great sitar player Ravi Shankar recorded at his home in 2011 when he was 91 years old. Accompanying him on tabla is Tanmoy Bose. Label: East Meets West Music Album: "Th...

Omar Sosa: Aug 24, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Omar Sosa is a musician from Cuba known mostly as a pianist though he plays all manner of keyboards and also marimba and percussion. Both an improviser and composer he has a wide range of musical inte...

Codona: Aug 18, 2020: 11am - 12pm

In the late 1970s three multi-instrumental musicians came together to form the group Codona. They were Collin Walcott who studied sitar with Ravi Shankar, and tabla with Alla Rakha, Don Cherry the jaz...

Alhousseini Anivolla, Bombino: Aug 10, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. W...

L. Subramanium: Jul 20, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

We present two examples of a fusion music bringing together musicians from South India (such as the Violin master, L. Subramanium) with various musicians from the West (such as the jazz Guitar great,...

Trio Joubran, Mahmoud Darwish: Jul 06, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Mahmoud Darwish: Jun 29, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Mahmoud Darwish Poems with Music (Palestine)

Ali Akbar Khan, Swapan Chaudhuri, Asha Bhosle: Jun 22, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Etran Finatawa: Jun 17, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Afro-Soul Abidjan: May 28, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

20200514: May 15, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

20200430: Apr 30, 2020: 7pm - 8pm

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

20200423: Apr 23, 2020: 11am - 11:30 am

Airs before Gov. Andrew Cuomo'a daily press conference. Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for t...

Gamelan: Apr 09, 2020: 7pm - 8pm

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves. T...

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley: Apr 01, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

The music of Gyedu-Blay Ambolley from Ghana is featured, sampling two recent recordings. He started out in HighLife music but went on to incorporate other musical influences into HighLife culminating...

20200319: Mar 19, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

20200312: Mar 12, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

20200305: Mar 05, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

20200227: Feb 27, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

Amir Koushkani: Feb 20, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

the music of Amir Koushkani an Iranian musician now resident in Canada. He plays the classical lute known as Tar and we hear him in duo performance with a Tombak (drum) player and in a trio with a per...

Miles From India: Feb 13, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

A tribute to the music of Miles Davis from the Indian musical traditions along with giants of the Jazz tradition: Kala Ramnath violin, Badal Roy tablas, Selva Ganesh kanjira, U. Srinivas electric mand...

Shakti: Feb 06, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Shakti was an acoustic fusion band formed by John McLaughlin in 1974 with musicians from both the Hindustani tradition (Zakir Hussain) and the Carnatic tradition (L. Shankar, Ramnad Raghavan and T.H....

Oumou Sangare: Jan 16, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Hear from one of the great female singers out of not only Mali but Africa itself: Oumou Sangare. Selected songs from her second album and next to last album reveal the depth of the tradition she comes...

Ali Farka Toure: Jan 09, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

The music of Ali Farka Toure is featured, including his early recordings before he became well known world wide. We feature recordings from the 1970's and early 1980's that were made in Mali and one m...

Asad Ali Khan, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Sultan Khan: Jan 02, 2020: 11am - 11:59 am

Today we offer a program featuring one of the great Rudra Vina (Rudra Bin) instrumentalists, Asad Ali Khan. The Rudra Bin is traditionally used in instrumental performances of music in the ancient Dhr...

Pat Thomas: Dec 26, 2019: 11am - 11:59 am

"The Golden Voice of Africa" Pat Thomas with the Kwashibu Area Band from their 2 most recent recordings. Pat Thomas came to fame singing HighLife in the 1970's and also worked extensively with another...

Dinkar Kaikini: Dec 12, 2019: 11am - 11:59 am

A live concert of North Indian classical music performed by the vocalist Dinkar Kaikini. He is supported on vocals by his wife and daughter and on Sarangi by Anand Kunte. Music from around the world i...

20191205: Dec 05, 2019: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.

Ali Farka Toure: Nov 28, 2019: 11am - 11:59 am

Today we present one of the giants of the guitar, the king of the desert blues: Ali Farka Toure. We draw on three of his later albums highlighting his fully developed style. One album also features th...

Orchestra Baobab: Nov 22, 2019: 11am - 11:59 am

We present music from one of the great bands out of Senegal, West Africa: Orchestra Baobab. Originally formed in 1970 they disbanded in 1987 and then after their recordings achieved global significanc...

20191121: Nov 21, 2019: 11am - 11:59 am

Music from around the world is featured. Bringing the audience into the realm of other cultures through music, hopefully expanding empathy for the “other,” and recognizing that “other” in ourselves.