A quick glance around the schedules

[Globaltruth]

A new album, A Year of Swimming from Derek Gripper - out since Jan and I've only just noticed. Playing with Baaba Maal, Salif Keita, and here with Madosini Mphaleni and Howard Butcher
"I Like The Motorcar "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPyCRVco2mQ

A genuine guitar virtuoso, and, because he has had to cancel his tour, he's doing 3 cities in one massive session - from a recording studio in Cape Town. Here is what you can expect:

Quotations of Bach, Malian songs, virtuosic kora compositions, Southern African bow music, and avant-garde Brazilian guitar music combine to create a new solo guitar which is at once intimate and explosive, improvised and composed, traditional and new.

https://melbourneguitarfestivallivestreams.com/

[zola]

Another series of Clark Peters' Black Music In Europe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h0f2

[johncorrigan]

On Tuesday coming on Radio 4, a couple of hours after Clark Peters, 'Art of Now' reflects on 40 years of Zimbabwean independence, with a mixtape from Belinda Zhawi, raised in Zimbabwe, who moved to London when she was 12.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hfy4

[Globaltruth]

Hmm is it a schedule? A podcast? No it's an online Festival

https://www.folkonfoot.com/festival

Mon May 25th from 2.00pm. Live from their front room into yours....

Also on FB (why would you though?)

[Globaltruth]

The Essay....a series of Folk@Home, hosted by Verity Sharpe

here is an example:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j35h

(I have a slight bias towards allotments especially in the East Midlands and, in my younger days, was also an inveterate and persistent tree climber. )

[johncorrigan]

The Essay....a series of Folk@Home, hosted by Verity Sharpe

here is an example:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j35h

(I have a slight bias towards allotments especially in the East Midlands and, in my younger days, was also an inveterate and persistent tree climber. )

Thanks for the reminder, Global. I heard Verity's interview with Karine Polwart on Friday before Late Junction and told myself I would listen to a few more...then forgot! Re tree climbing, I recall when reading about the great Dunbar-born American hero, John Muir, it said that when he was walking in the wilds, if a high wind got up, Muir would climb to the top of a tree and experience the howling wind up in the canopy. I used to love a tree climb too, but I was never as brave as Muir.

[johncorrigan]

BBC 6 Music's often excellent Gideon Coe has been having a three-hour Afrobeat Special for the Bank Holiday this evening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jgqd

[Globaltruth]

On Last Words today r4 at 4.00pm Robin Denselow talks about Mory Kanté
Here’s a driving version of his classic Yeke Yeke filmed in NY in happier times:

https://youtu.be/0By54M3ne1Y

[johncorrigan]

With covid playing havoc with Glasto, the Beeb have put some old shows on the i-player, including this one by Oumou Sangare from a couple of years back.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p055vttg/glastonbury-oumou-sangare

Toots and the Maytals, and Mavis Staples, and Arthur Lee's Love are among the other sessions available to watch for the next month.

[johncorrigan]

Part two of Radio 4's 'The Last Songs of Gaia' with Verity Sharpe this morning at 11.30 is about waterlife and includes some water drum music from Vanuatu among other things.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kgsn

I thought the first programme about birds was really interesting and enjoyable.

[Serial_Apologist]

Last night's Channel 4 News included an item on Rock Against Racism, with footage from the huge 1978 (?) march from Trafalgar Square to Victoria Park, and reminiscence from musicians involved.

http://www.channel4.com/news/how-roc...ic-backgrounds.

I was there!

[johncorrigan]

Last night's Channel 4 News included an item on Rock Against Racism, with footage from the huge 1978 (?) march from Trafalgar Square to Victoria Park, and reminiscence from musicians involved.

http://www.channel4.com/news/how-roc...ic-backgrounds.

I was there!

Did it relate to this film, S_A, which seems to be doing the rounds just now, and has been getting some good write-ups?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8351520/

[Globaltruth]

Part two of Radio 4's 'The Last Songs of Gaia' with Verity Sharpe this morning at 11.30 is about waterlife and includes some water drum music from Vanuatu among other things.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kgsn

I thought the first programme about birds was really interesting and enjoyable.

Yes, I've enjoyed them both.
Very good that Verity and team are able to make and broadcast shows like this.

she's also finishing off the series of Folk at Home
Next ep on Mon. features that well known folkie* Fatoumata Diawara:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jg5v

If you can't wait till then, here she is with a superb rendition of 'Nterini' from her 2018 album, "Fenfo".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBqMBEehIs

Wonderful!


(*...labels eh?)

[johncorrigan]

If you can't wait till then, here she is with a superb rendition of 'Nterini' from her 2018 album, "Fenfo".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBqMBEehIs

Wonderful!


(*...labels eh?)

What a voice! Fantastic stuff, Global!

[johncorrigan]

I notice that the next edition of BBC World Service's 'The Forum' concerns the Tango, on air this coming Thursday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszjvl