RootsWorld Radio

Series produced by Cliff Furnald

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Global music radio with a different outlook.

Global music radio with a different outlook. Host and editor Cliff Furnald explores the world's music with little concern for age, genre or country of origin. It's all music, it's all "world."


90 Pieces

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On the 52nd edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll move through the 1960s into 2013, exploring music from Tanzania, China, Cuba and Bulgaria. We'll samp...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
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On the 51st edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll wander the planet looking for traditions less heard and hear what happens when they are dragged into ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 58:36
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On the 50th edition of RootsWorld Radio we’ll explore some Chinese avant garde, jazz from Sweden, a crawfish hora from Israel and much more of the ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:15
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On the first anniversary edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll listen to Nordic music with a twist. From traditional kanteles and nyckelharpas to prog...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
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The 48th edition of RootsWorld Radio will be a one hour performance by one of the most influential and long-lived ensembles in the Americas, Inti-I...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:12
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On the 47th edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll be getting our news from Trinidad, our guitars from Vietnam and Senegal and some plena from Puerto R...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 57:23
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On RootsWorld Radio #46, we'll listen to three challenging renaissance men from Cameroun and NY, explore a new recording of the classic Brazilian ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:26
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The 45th edition of RootsWorld Radio will chase the elusive mandolin, in a number of its guises as it hides in the alleys and forests of the world....

  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 57:56
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On RootsWorld Radio this week we'll be celebrating subversion in America and Palestine, crossing the Caribbean from Jamaica to Cuba to Haiti, and l...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:13
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RootsWorld Radio Program #43 For the first edition of RootsWorld Radio in 2013, we'll start off the new year with something completely different....

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:26
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On RootsWorld Radio #81, we'll hear vintage tunes from Senegal, Scandinavian collusions, Kenyan pop bottle pop, ask a few questions and fail to get...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
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The 80th edition of RootsWorld Radio will feature music from Le Grand Kallé, one of the creators of modern Congolese pop, whose career spanned more...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:46
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On the 79th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we will hear another of the concerts recorded at The Tønder Festival in Denmark in August as part of Folks...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:41
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On RootsWorld Radio #70 we’ll explore trans-global Nordic roots, sample a little symphony from Denmark, hear experimental acoustic sounds from Viet...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 58:46
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On the 69th edition of RootsWorld Radio host Cliff Furnald will be talking with the trio of musicians from Cyprus known as Monsieur Domani. They’ll...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:52
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On the 67th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we’ll spend time with some rough and rugged old tunes from Sweden, France and Canada; some contemporary ar...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:44
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On the next RootsWorld Radio, we'll take a grand tour from Ethiopia to Estonia, from France to Cape Verde, China to Mali, and Italy - from north to...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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On the 65th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll dig into the avant garde of traditional music from France, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Estonia and beyo...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
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Host Cliff Furnald presents a tribute to South Africa's ailing national hero Nelson Mandela. The program is simply Mandela's Africa, in music and h...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:48
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On the next RootsWorld Radio, we'll visit Corsica and Sardinia to listen to the unique polyphonic singing of those islands, in both traditional and...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:45