WorldBeat
Rick/Garry
Sunday
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sunday 22nd June 2025
Garry filling in for Rick this week. Featuring the new album from Latvian group Tautumeitas "Zem Saules/Under The Solar Spell". Music from Kanazoe Orkestra, a balafon-led group from Burkina Faso, Thaos Stauridis & Drom from Macedonia, and a new single from Siberian indigenous group Otyken. Also some solo releases - Paivi Hirvonen, the violinist from Okra Playground, and two members of Japan's Wagakki Band, singer Yuko Suzuhana and shamisen player Beni Ninagawa have new singles out. And the latest Songlines magazine Top of the World compilation (Issue #209).
23 February, 2025
In just two weeks, eager audiences will gather to welcome at Adelaide’s Botanic Park Palestinian/Jordanian Shamsteppers 47SOUL, also heading off to WOMADelaide with their debut album Totally Right new music from Melbourne based duo Wrong Way Up - channelling 70’s Afro-Disco & Psychedelic Boogie , Solomon Islander Singer/ Multi-instrumentalist Charles Maimarosia with his 3rd album Hote’ Hote’, the latest Putumayo presents.. Groove World encores from Santrofi, Piers Faccini & Ballake Sissoko and much more.
a tribute to the Cassowary sung in English and Djabugay language.
a song about hurting; witnessing and experiencing the harm of colonisation
From Solomon Islands, winner of 2024 Pacific Breaks Competition & performing on first night @ WOMADelaide
The opener from his latest & third album, Solomon Islander Singer/ Multi-instrumentalist was the leader for Narasirito Panpipe Orchestra and a previous ABC Pacific Breaks Contest winner.
Album to be released 25 March.
‘Ghost Town’, the second single from their upcoming album ‘Dualism Pt. 1’. The track captures themes of loss and resilience, reflecting on the destruction and exile of Gaza’s people.
new music from Melbourne based duo Wrong Way Up also on theirnway to WOMADelaide
more new music from Melbourne based duo Wrong Way Up also on theirnway to WOMADelaide
and included on covermount of Songlines #205 Feb- March 2025
New album out next month
From their 2018 Grammy Award winning collaboration album.