GLOBAL A GO-GO

The 20th annual Richmond Folk Festival is coming up Friday through Sunday, September 27th through the 29th.  And this week (Sunday September...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 NIGERIA 70: THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF 1970'S FUNKY LAGOS | various artists | Strut 2 AFRICA NEGRA | ...

As part of their 25th anniversary celebration, Strut Records on August 30th reissued Nigeria 70 , the 2001 compilation that originally got t...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 LA SONORA MAZUREN | Magnetismo Animal | Barbes 2 SANTROFI | "Amina" [Single] | Outhere 3 K...

Richmond has hosted three Colombian bands in the last six months: La Perla, Meridian Brothers and Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto.  And now add ...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 CHAKRAVYUH | various artists | Qilla 2 CIMAFUNK | Pa' Tu Cuerpa | Terapia Productions 3 K.O.G | ...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR AND GROOVE TERMINATOR | History Of House | Music Is Fun/House Of Latroit/Gallo 2 MI...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten, Jul 29-Aug 4 1 ANGELICA GARCIA |  Gemelo | Partisan 2 THIAGO FRANCA & A ESPETACULAR CHARANGA DO FRANC...

They call Awa Khiwe "The Village Girl" because she's from a rural area of Zimbabwe's Bulawayo province.  She raps in Ndebe...

Toumani Diabaté, the undisputed master of the kora , the most important classical instrument of West Africa, passed away on July 19 at age 5...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 SEUN KUTI AND EGYPT 80 | "T.O.P." [Single] | Record Kicks 2 GEORGE DEKKER | Right To Be Here ...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 ORQUESTA AKOKAN | Caracoles | Daptone 2 SUPERFONICOS | Renacere | Spaceflight 3 LOS GAITEROS DE SAN J...

A band's second album is supposed to be the hard one -- it's the one you write after you've spent your whole life on the first a...

Bill Lupoletti of Global A Go-Go will be subbing for his WRIR colleague DJ Maiya on the first hour of the program she co-hosts, Head Empty R...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 LOS GAITEROS DE SAN JACINTO | Orgullo Colombiano | OM Producciones 2 ORQUESTA AKOKAN | Caracoles | Da...