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Accordions, Fiddles, Great Folk Voices & Top 10 Best of 2014 Countdown

Monday  December 29

Some global fiddles this time in the Global Village, with music from All-Ireland Fiddle champion Liz Carroll, Quartet San Francisco, Kronos Quartet with Vietnamese composer and instrumentalist Van-Ahn Vanessa Vo and Celtic viol from early music master Jordi Savall.

Tuesday December 30

Global Village has an attack of ‘accordion-mania,’ with some great squeezebox sounds from Brazil, Italy, Colombia, and the Balkans by way of Toronto in this edition of the show.  Plus classics from Peter Tosh and Celia Cruz, along with music from the Congolese group Staff Benda Bilili and Italian neo-folk master Enzo Avitabile.

Wednesday December 31

Global Village marks birthdays of Andy Summers of the Police, legendary folk singer Odetta, and English folk singer June Tabor. Plus new music from Yusef aka Cat Stevens, Robert Plant, the RealWorld 25th anniversary boxed set, and the William Onyeabor boxed set.

Thursday January 1

Global Village kicks off the new year with birthday celebrations for several Latin music artists – percussionist Manny Oquendo, bassist (and musical director for Manny Oquendo’s Libre) Andy Gonzalez, bassist Al McKibbon (who worked with West Coast Latin jazz pioneers George Shearing and Cal Tjader) and also Latin music popularizer Xavier Cugat.

  Friday January 2

Best of 2014 Special: Global Village kicks off the January Best of 2014 feature with a countdown of the top ten favorites of the past year – a wide-ranging collection of music from the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East and Europe that explored traditional and contemporary music, along with some fascinating cross-cultural meetings.

The full list of Global Village favorites for the year can be found here. Music of Global Village favorites, along with other award-winners, nominees and significant releases of the year will be featured throughout the entire month.

Strange Currency and Crossroads will also be devoted to Best of the Year selections tonight as well.

Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.