RootsWorld Radio

Series produced by Cliff Furnald

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Global music radio with a different outlook.

Global music radio with a different outlook. Host and editor Cliff Furnald explores the world's music with little concern for age, genre or country of origin. It's all music, it's all "world."


90 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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The week of December 29th, RootsWorld Radio #42 will ring out the old with music both contemplative and danceable. Join us and these artists: Kitty...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:42
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In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, Connecticut-based RootsWorld Radio host Cliff Furnald plays music from around the world to try and help soothe ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:44
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This week on RootsWorld Radio we're trying something different- it's all music and no talking. That's right, we're letting the music speak for itse...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:23
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This week on RootsWorld Radio we'll visit the imaginary village of Pumpkintown, Massachusetts, listen to some spirituals from Virginia, tune in to ...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:03
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The 38th edition of RootsWorld Radio will feature traditional folk and contemporary reinterpretaions from Mali, Italy, Australian, Denmark, France ...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:16
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On the 37th edition of RootsWorld radio there will be classical jazz, jazzy folk and folky classical. And a few things that are even harder to pige...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:48
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On this edition of RootsWorld radio we will visit Sicily and Tuscany, hear some modern yodelling and some Greek poetry, listen to some African guit...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 57:50
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On this edition of RootsWorld Radio, host Cliff Furnald will start in Denmark with a driving accordion and horn ensemble, move through the revolu...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 58:20
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On the debut jaunt of RootsWorld Radio, host Cliff Furnald will take you from the horns of Norway to the strings of Sweden, with French mandolins, ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 56:47
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On the next RootsWorld Radio, we'll hear from the pipers of Lisbon - Gaitieros de Lisboa - in a set of songs of political allegory and humorous mad...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
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On the 61st episode of RootsWorld Radio, we'll visit with some new pelimanni from Finland and a couple of False Beards from England. We'll listen t...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
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On the 60th edition of RootsWorld radio, we'll start in Cyprus with a bit of rough and ragged new folk music, and then move through Occitania, Sal...

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
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On the 59th edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll go deep into some American roots with music the music of Tim Eriksen, plus a bit of old timey fiddlin...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:27
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On the 58th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll start off with some English language topical and story songs from the Caribbean, including Michael S...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:48
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On the 57th edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll have coffee in San Antonio, do a jazzy freylach in Budapest, hear tubas and voices from Norway, explo...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:55
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On the next RootsWorld Radio, we'll start off in the northern Adriatic sea, wind our way across the Mediterranean and into Mali, the landward south...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:38
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It's all a bit of this and that on this week's edition of the show, as we travel from the Canadian maritimes to the pygmy forests of Cameroon. Mini...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:51
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On RootsWorld Radio #54, it's another trip around the world, from Brooklyn to Burundi, from Warsaw to the west coast. Whispering trance music, 21...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:45
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On RootsWorld Radio #53 we'll one again pose the premise: "There's no such thing as African music." We'll listen to music new and old from Mali, So...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:42
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On the 91st edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll be seeing what global cultural exchange and the digital revolution offer the world's musicians by ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:43