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Afropop Worldwide with Georges Collinet From PRI Public Radio International ®
AFROPOP WORLDWIDE GOES TO COPENHAGEN FOR WOMEX 2009, PART 1
Every year WOMEX attracts some 3,000 individuals working in the world music field--artists, record label people, festival presenters, media personnel and others. And we always return loaded with cool CDs new to us, interviews with artists we've never met before, live concert recordings, etc. From some of the three dozen showcases featured at WOMEX this year, we'll hear Hasna el Bacharia (Algeria/France), Kenge Kenge (Kenya), Choc Quib Town (Colombia), Addis Acoustic Project (Ethiopia), Staff Benda Bilili (Congo), SpokFrevo Orquestra (Brazil) and others. There is so much good stuff we'll do WOMEX, Part 2 later in the season.
Baaba Maal Acoustic, Live in New York City
Concert highlights from Baaba Maal's rapturous North American debut of his acoustic string and vocal focused ensemble, recorded at Joe's Pub in New York City. Baaba performs solo, in trio and sextet--joined by longtime musical companions Mansour Seck on guitar and vocals, Kowding Cissokho on kora, Mama Gaye on guitar, Barou Sall on hodu (African guitar), and El Hadj Niang on bass. Also feature is the powerful Ethiopian singer Gigi.
The Prehistory of New Orleans: Treasures from the Hogan
This program tells the story of how jazz emerged in the context of all the other African American musics that proliferated in late 19th and early 20th century New Orleans: blues, ragtime, Mardi Gras Indian music, vaudeville and minstrelsy, spiritual church music, and more. With our guides Bruce Boyd Raeburn and Lynn Abbott, we'll comb through a vast world of interviews, recorded music, photographs, ephemera, and curatorial knowledge at one of the great American music collections, the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University.
