Folk, traditional, and regional styles from all over the world; generally music that would be loosely classified into "folk", "world" or "country" in the typical record store. Ethnographic, field recordings, local labels, state-sponsored labels, music that has distinct local flavor etc., sometimes themed or in the style of a survey, sampler, or anthology.
Another visit to the Caribbean that runs the gamut from Gwo-ka Modèn to the music of a Jamaican Zion Revivalist church
Attempting to channel that porch music, etc.
Hear a show composed entirely of music whose release was made possible by funding from National Endowment of the Arts, and other American government cultural agencies from which grant funding has been recently eliminated.
A mix show of jazz that features instruments and flavors from other traditions such as Balafon, Koto, Bossa Nova, Flamenco, and others.
Songs about trucking and trucker culture, the vice of pinball, road companionship, gospel and some regional country, and bluegrass gems, including places as far flung as Canada and Montana. Labels like Starday and regional records pressed at Rite Records Productions and Arthur Smith Studios.
A "pure blend" of traditional music from Ireland. Hear reels, jigs, hornpipes, and the most delicate aires, from all over the Emerald Isle played on fiddles, pipes, button accordions, tin whistles, dulcimer, and more. Recordings of Seamus Ennis, Margaret Barry, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran, the McPeakes, John Rea, and more, on Gael-Linn, Topic, Shanachie, Folkways, etc. With ballads sung in both the native and the foreign tongue, and songs of resistance mixed in.
A mix of regional styles and traditional music from the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. Hear ethnographic field recordings of music from the former regions of Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Hungary. Tree leaf-playing choruses, kolo flute, lute, hurdy gurdy, fiddle, bagpipes, jaw harp, Traveller (gypsy) ballads, etc.
A show of regional styles and traditional music focused on indigenous Central and South America. This episode includes both field recordings and speculative commercial attempts of pre-Columbian or pre-conquest music and instruments, as well as more modern traditional styles.
A solid hour of Indonesian percussion orchestras, friend of the show Will R. does a Gamelan guest set, with some later tracks added by the show host, hear Gamelan, and other Gamelan adjacent music from Java, Bali, and some American Gamelan.
A mix of sounds from all over. Hear shepherds pipes, marimba & jawbone, panpipe ensembles, Khene, double membrane drum, Norwegian hardanger (octave) fiddle, and more.
