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.

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Playlist:

    Time: October 8 - 9:00:00 am
  • Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Oliver Lake, “Separation”

    from Matador Of 1st & 1st

    Passin Thru - 1996

    USA

  • Time: October 8 - 9:01:00 am
  • Global A Go-Go

    Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”

    from Global A Go-Go

    BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001

    England UK

  • Time: October 8 - 9:06:00 am
  • Rüüt, “Kiriküüt”

    from Kiriküüt

    Nordic Notes - 2023

    Estonia

  • Time: October 8 - 9:09:20 am
  • II

    Fränder, “En sommarkväll”

    from II

    Nordic Notes - 2023

    Sweden-Estonia

  • Time: October 8 - 9:15:04 am
  • Forbundet

    Garmarna, “Dagen Flyr”

    from Forbundet

    Season of Mist - 2020

    Sweden

  • Time: October 8 - 9:23:44 am
  • Konpa Lakay

    Boulpik, “Souvenir d'Afrique”

    from Konpa Lakay

    Lusafrica - 2014

    Haiti

  • Time: October 8 - 9:27:30 am
  • Jumbie in the Jukebox

    Drew Gonsalves & Kobo Town, “Road to Fyzabad”

    from Jumbie in the Jukebox

    Stonetree Records - 2013

    Trinidad & Tobago-Canada

  • Time: October 8 - 9:31:06 am
  • Great Expectation

    The Jolly Boys, “The Passenger”

    from Great Expectation

    Wall of Sound - 2010

    Jamaica

  • Time: October 8 - 9:35:03 am
  • Quelbe! Music of the U.S. Virgin Islands

    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

  • Time: October 8 - 9:44:56 am
  • La Pistola y el Corazón

    Los Lobos, “La Pistola y el Corazón”

    from La Pistola y el Corazón

    Rhino/Warner Records - 1988

    USA

  • Time: October 8 - 9:48:21 am
  • ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos from Veracruz

    Grupo Mono Blanco, “El cascabel”

    from ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos from Veracruz

    Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2018

    México

  • Time: October 8 - 9:52:33 am
  • Loe Loa (Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree)

    Betsayda Machado & Parranda el Clavo, “Pueblo de Fiesta”

    from Loe Loa (Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree)

    Odelia - 2017

    Venezuela

  • Time: October 8 - 9:56:31 am
  • Ponsigué (feat. Carlos Tález) - Single

    Venezonix, “Ponsigué (feat. Carlos Tález)”

    from Ponsigué (feat. Carlos Tález) - Single

    Nacional Records - 2023

    USA-Venezuela

  • Time: October 8 - 10:05:00 am
  • Nyn

    Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis, “Gia Mia Stigmi”

    from Nyn

    World Music - 2016

    Greece

  • Time: October 8 - 10:09:28 am
  • Mavrika

    Mavrika, “Clapping Song”

    from Mavrika

    Psolista Records - 2012

    Greece-England UK

  • Time: October 8 - 10:14:03 am
  • MLDVA & Çınar Timur

    MLDVA & Çınar Timur, “Fesupanallah”

    from MLDVA & Çınar Timur

    Shapes of Rhythm - 2023

    Poland-Turkey

  • Time: October 8 - 10:18:01 am
  • Fikret Kızılok & Edip Akbayram

    Edip Akbayram, “Sev Beni Beni”

    from Fikret Kızılok & Edip Akbayram

    COŞKUN PLAK SAN. - 2006

    Turkey, 1974

  • Time: October 8 - 10:26:00 am
  • Cape Verdean Blues (feat. Bau & Miroca Paris)

    Kavita Shah & Bau, “Angola”

    from Cape Verdean Blues (feat. Bau & Miroca Paris)

    Folkalist Records - 2023

    USA-Cabo Verde-Portugal

  • Time: October 8 - 10:31:33 am
  • DJ Circuito, “A Min Kre Bai (feat Lutchinha)”

    from A Min Kre Bai (feat Lutchinha) - Single

    RFSeven Music - 2020

    Cabo Verde-USA

  • Time: October 8 - 10:36:40 am
  • Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988

    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

  • Time: October 8 - 10:48:00 am
  • Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band, “Mantcha Mantcha”

    from Sira Ba Kele

    Sublime Frequencies - 2018

    Burkina Faso

  • Time: October 8 - 10:54:02 am
  • Leon Keita (Analog Africa Dance Edition No.16)

    Leon Keita, “Ifarana”

    from Leon Keita (Analog Africa Dance Edition No.16)

    Analog Africa - 2023

    Guinée Conakry-Mali

    Global A Go-Go    October 8th, 2023

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