Global A Go-Go presents:
Every year, it’s my favorite weekend of the year. It’s the first thing I put on my calendar. You know I’m talking about the weekend of the Richmond Folk Festival, which this year is next weekend, October 13-15.
The Festival seems to get more international with each passing year, and this week on Global A Go-Go (Sunday October 8, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site) I’ll highlight a number of global artists that I’m looking forward to seeing at the 2023 Richmond Folk Festival.
You’ll hear Stanley & The Ten Sleepless Knights from St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Grupo Mono Blanco from Veracruz Mexico, Lutchinha from Cabo Verde (via Massachusetts) and the amazing Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.
And let me put two others on your list: Genticorum from Quebec Canada and Bio Ritmo from right here in the RVA. Both were played on this show within the last two weeks, so I’m skipping them today but you shouldn’t skip them at the Festival.
Also on this week’s program: New Scandinavian folk-rock by Rüüt and Fränder, new Anatolian rock from Poland (no lie) by MLDVA and a reissue of one of West Africa’s finest: Léon Keïta & Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/116517
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global A Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
Drew Gonsalves & Kobo Town, “Road to Fyzabad”
Stonetree Records - 2013
Trinidad & Tobago-Canada
Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights, “Don’t Walk Deh”
from Quelbe! Music of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2016
St. Croix US Virgin Islands
Grupo Mono Blanco, “El cascabel”
from ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos from Veracruz
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2018
México
Betsayda Machado & Parranda el Clavo, “Pueblo de Fiesta”
from Loe Loa (Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree)
Odelia - 2017
Venezuela
Venezonix, “Ponsigué (feat. Carlos Tález)”
from Ponsigué (feat. Carlos Tález) - Single
Nacional Records - 2023
USA-Venezuela
Edip Akbayram, “Sev Beni Beni”
from Fikret Kızılok & Edip Akbayram
COŞKUN PLAK SAN. - 2006
Turkey, 1974
Kavita Shah & Bau, “Angola”
from Cape Verdean Blues (feat. Bau & Miroca Paris)
Folkalist Records - 2023
USA-Cabo Verde-Portugal
DJ Circuito, “A Min Kre Bai (feat Lutchinha)”
from A Min Kre Bai (feat Lutchinha) - Single
RFSeven Music - 2020
Cabo Verde-USA
Tulipa Negra, “Corpo Limpo”
from Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988
Ostinato Records LLC - 2017
Cabo Verde-Netherlands, 1984
Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band, “Mantcha Mantcha”
from Sira Ba Kele
Sublime Frequencies - 2018
Burkina Faso
Leon Keita, “Ifarana”
from Leon Keita (Analog Africa Dance Edition No.16)
Analog Africa - 2023
Guinée Conakry-Mali
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