GLOBAL A GO-GO

This week (Sunday October 12, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen , check your local listings for airing on ot...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 ALICK NKHATA | Radio Lusaka | Mississippi 2 EJE EJE | Primordial Soup | Batov 3 EL BAILADOR DE LA ESQUIN...

My favorite weekend of the year, the one that includes the Richmond Folk Festival, is coming up shortly: It's Friday October 10th throug...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 MEKLIT | A Piece Of Infinity | Smithsonian Folkways 2 BONGO DISTRICT | Motelito Flores [EP] | 90DB 3 COC...

The folks at Secret Planet Richmond are back with two more live shows at the beginning of October.  First of all, Yeison Landero y su Conjun...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 ORCHESTRA GOLD | Dakan | self-released 2 BALIMAYA PROJECT MEETS DISCOS PACIFICO ALLSTARS | Calima | Jazz R...

Orchestra Gold is an ensemble from Oakland that doesn't sound like any other American band.  They play a sludgy, heavy kind of psychedel...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 2015-2025: LES DISQUES BONGO JOE - 10 YEARS OF SONIC EXPLORATIONS | various artists | Bongo Joe 2 LOS ZHE...

Iquitos, the capital of the Peruvian Amazon with half a million residents, is the largest city in the world that can't be reached by roa...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 GOOD ONES, THE | Rwanda Sings with Strings | Glitterbeat 2 2015-2025: LES DISQUES BONGO JOE - 10 YEARS OF ...

I've got a special Global A Go-Go event coming up this weekend.  It starts on the radio on the afternoon of Sunday September 7, and cont...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 MAHOTELLA QUEENS | Buya Buya: Come Back | Umsakazo 2 GOOD ONES, THE | Rwanda Sings with Strings | Glitter...

Mahotella Queens, South Africa's greatest mbaqanga singing group, are now in their 60th year.  Led by Hilda Tloubatla, their last remai...

WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 TERROR/CACTUS | "La Pantera" [Single] | Names You Can Trust 2 SAHA GNAWA | "Baba Mimoun...

Global A Go-Go welcomes Romperayo to Richmond -- they're playing at Révéler Experiences on Saturday August 23.  Here's how bandleade...