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

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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 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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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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RootsWorld Radio #84

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • 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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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 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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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 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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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 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 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 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 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