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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On program #90 will visit some old musical friends and some new work, as well. Expect roots from Cyprus and Spain, some experiments from Iraq, F...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:44
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Pete Seeger once said "My job is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet." Well, ...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:48
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RootsWorld #88 starts with some banjos old and new, hits on Belgian art music, Swedish experiments in folk, some Hatian classics and much more. Art...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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Cuban, Brazilian and Haitian jazz mix with Swedish folk, African pop and Italian tanantissmo on this week's show, program #87. It's all mixed up an...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:42
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Banjos, brass bands, harmonicas, kora, guitars and computers all take the stage on the next RootsWorld Radio. Join host Cliff Furnald for a trip th...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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RootsWorld Radio #85 celebrates the end of the year with music from near and far, old and new. We'll include a few chestnuts, a snowball or two, a ...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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RootsWorld Radio #84

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:45
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This week's post-holiday RootsWorld Radio maintains radio silence. Less chatter, more music. A musical trip without the tour guide. Artists will i...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
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On RootsWorld Radio #82, we will present the 4th in our series of Folk Spot 2013 concerts recorded in August at the Tønder Festival in Denmark. Thi...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:45
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On the 111th edition of RootsWorld Radio, wooden flutes from Sweden and France offer newly composed art music and folk traditions, and then ambling...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:47
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On the 110th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we start off with some small pipes from Britain, then head into folk, pop and jazz connections with piano...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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On the 109th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll be visiting a number of imaginary borders, between Iran and Norway, Belgium and Palestine, Scotland...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
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RootsWorld Radio #108 starts off with some rough and rugged new music from Poland and some jazz from Turkey. We cruise the Nordic countries, drop i...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:39
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RootsWorld Radio #107 finds us roaming through Denmark and Finland, encountering theior own versions of country music before hitting New Orleans fo...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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"There's No Such Thing As African Music: Volume 2" includes music from Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Angola, Gabon, Mauritania and some surprise side trip...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:43
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On the 105th edition of RootsWorld Radio, Cliff Furnald will take you from New Orleans to Nassau, from Brasilia to Bangkok, from your back porch to...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
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A little bit of fiddling starts us off this week, from Swedish duo Josefina Paulson & Jonas Ackerman and the Estonian/Swedish Duo Jansen Jüssi. Fro...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
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On the 103rd edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll go surfing with Sufi's, wave a flag in Marseilles, get the fuzz tones of Mali, have a bit of sukiya...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:43
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RootsWorld Radio goes silent (well, at least the host does), with a full program of nothing but non-stop music from Brazil, Mali, the US, Thailand,...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:48
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Totó La Momposina has brought Afro-Colombian roots to the world and with a new Real World Records release, her music is more vital than ever.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:55