October 8, 2018

Program October 10, 2018

For years, you've heard me (and my WRIR colleagues DJ Daudi and DJ Graybeard) go on and on about champeta music: how it's the sound of Colombia's Caribbean coast, how it's built from the records that sailors brought from African to Colombia's seaports, how it's some of the world's most awesome dance music.

Now you get to see and hear champeta for yourself -- for free, to boot.  Tribu Baharu (pictured above) will be rocking the 14th annual Richmond Folk Festival this year, performing on Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday evening on downtown Richmond's historic riverfront.  And you'll hear them recorded live in WRIR's Studio C on Daudi and Graybeard's The Motherland Influence radio show, Sunday October 21 during WRIR's Fall '18 Fund Drive.

This week, I'll give you a taste of Tribu Baharu to get you motivated to see them at the Folk Festival, and I'll feature three other artists that I'll certainly be catching at this year's festival: Sona Jobarteh from The Gambia, the world's foremost female kora player; the Puerto Rican salsa band Orquesta El Macabeo, who played live on Global A Go-Go three years ago; and the kings of Jamaican nyabinghi drumming, Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus.

It's become a kind of tradition for me to post my Richmond Folk Festival schedule -- a list of the sets I'm planning to see at this year's festival, weather permitting and last-minute changes-of-mind allowed.  So here it is:

Saturday October 13
12:00-12:45   The New York Crimean Tatar Ensemble at CoStar Stage
1:45-2:45    Leroy Thomas & The Zydeco Roundrunners at Dominion Energy Dance Pavilion
3:00-4:00    Linda Gail Lewis at Dominion Energy Dance Pavilion
4:15-5:15    Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus at Dominion Energy Dance Pavilion
6:15-7:00    Ricky B at Dominion Energy Dance Pavilion
7:15-8:15    Tribu Baharu at Dominion Energy Dance Pavilion
8:30-9:30    Orquesta El Macabeo at Dominion Energy Dance Pavilion

Sunday October 14
12:15-1:00    Bounxeung Synanonh at Lyft Stage
1:15-2:00    Tamburaski Sastav Ponoc at Lyft Stage
2:15-3:00    Vishten at Lyft Stage
3:00-3:45    Sona Jobarteh at Community Foundation Stage
5:00-6:00    Tribu Baharu (one more time) at Dominion Energy Dance Pavilion

Podcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/99591
All the podcasts: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go


Artist | Country | Song | Recording | Label | Year

Oliver Lake | USA | Separation | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | England UK | Global A Go-Go | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001

Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba | Senegal-USA | Alla L'a Ke | Routes | Twelve | Eight | 2018
Sona Jobarteh | The Gambia-England UK | Gambia | single | African Guild | 2015

Fatoumata Diawara | Mali | Nterini | Fenfo: Something To Say | Shanachie | 2018
Rokia Traore | Mali | Sikey | Beautiful Africa | Nonesuch | 2013

Orquesta El Macabeo | Puerto Rico USA | Alacran | Live On WRIR 2015-09-02 | wrir.org/listen | 2015
Bio Ritmo | RVA USA | Perdido | Puerta Del Sur | Vampisoul | 2014

Eddie Palmieri | USA | Bilongo | Superimposition | Tico | 1970
Michi Sarmiento Y Su Combo Bravo | Colombia | La Rumba Se Acabo | Salsa Con Monte | Vampisoul | 1973

Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus | Jamaica | Run Come Rally | Dadawah: Peace & Love | Trojan | 1975
Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus | Jamaica | Rise Jah Jah Children (The Lion Sleeps) | Nyahbinghi | Trojan | 1974
The Folkes Brothers | Jamaica | Oh Carolina | single | Buster Wild Bells | 1960

The Garifuna Collective | Belize-Guatemala-Honduras | Gudemei | Ayo | Cumbancha | 2013
Chella Torres & Desere Diego | Honduras-Belize | Merua | Umalai: The Garifuna Women's Project | Cumbancha | 2008
Doctor Nativo | Guatemala | Zion | Guatemaya | Stonetree | 2018

Tribu Baharu | Colombia | Made In Tribu Baharu | single | Electric Cowbell | 2017
Juan Carlos Coronel & Joe Arroyo | Colombia | Simula Timula | 100 Exitos Crossover Para El Gran Baile | Discos Fuentes | 2004
The King Elio Boom | Colombia | El Fulo | Champeta Criolla Vol. 2: Visionary Black Music From Underground Colombiafrica: The Real Motherfuckers Of Afrocolombian Music !! | Palenque | 2001
Grupo Abharca | Colombia | Schallcarri | Africa Llama | Caliente | 1978

Superfonicos | USA | Sigue Pa'Lante | Suelta | Discos Fonicos | 2018

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