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May 1, 2025

Music without borders, spring-summer 2025

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Richmond's home for music without borders is the Secret Planet Richmond concert series.  Started in 2024, it brings cutting-edge interna...
April 29, 2025

Charts April 21-27, 2025

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 UKANDANZ | Evil Plan | Compagnie 4000 2 FAMO MOUNTAIN | For Those Left Behind | Glitterbeat 3 SALIF ...
April 22, 2025

Charts April 14-20, 2025

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 RED BARAAT | Bhangra Rangeela | Sinj 2 GUSSIE CLARKE | Reggae Masters: Horace Andy & Leroy Smart ...
April 19, 2025

This hustling world

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WRIR's Spring 2025 Fund Drive is now underway -- right now we're deep in this hustling world, hard at work toward raising $45,000 by...
April 15, 2025

Charts April 7-13, 2025

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 ESTRELLAS DE BUENA VISTA |  Live in Havana | One World 2 EBO TAYLOR, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAM...
April 11, 2025

Are you the crocodiles, gentlemen?

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It's another special program this week on Global A Go-Go (Sunday April 13, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/li...
April 10, 2025

Charts Mar 24 - Apr 6, 2025

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 SERGE BULAT | Phonomundi: Selected Recordings of Heritage Sites and Traditions 2017-2024 | self-released...
April 4, 2025

Serge Bulat in the house

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I've been corresponding with Serge Bulat for about nine months now.  I've played his own music on Global A Go-Go and you've hear...
March 25, 2025

Charts March 17-23, 2025

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 FLORENCE ADOONI | A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity) | Philophon 2 SON PALENQUE | Rincon De Af...
March 21, 2025

An ordinary exercise in unity

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Right now, a Philophon record sounds only like a Philophon record, and like nothing else in the world.  German producer and musician Max Wei...
March 18, 2025

Charts March 10-16, 2025

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 MIRAMAR | Entre Tus Flores | Ansonia 2 MIZIK MALADI: DISQUES DEBS INTERNATIONAL VOL. 3 | various artis...
March 14, 2025

History of Ukraine in 5 minutes

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I'm joined in Studio A this week (Sunday March 16, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen , check your local ...
March 11, 2025

Charts Feb 24 - Mar 9, 2025

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 FLORENCE ADOONI | A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity) | Philophon 2 SATELLITES | Aylar | Batov...
March 7, 2025

Human nature

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Nusantara Beat is one of my favorite pre-debut-album bands of the moment.  They're from Amsterdam and all six members are Dutch Indonesi...
February 26, 2025

Cornershop across the border

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This week (Sunday March 2, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen , check your local listings for airing on other...