Monday, September 5
Global Village celebrates Labor Day with songs about work and working, the people who do it and the joys and pains of it. Among the artists featured: the Strawbs, Toots Hibbert, Van Morrison, Sting, Abbey Lincoln, the Beatles, Jimmy Reed, the Roches and more.
Tuesday, September 6
This time in the Global Village – music from Buika, Bebo (Valdes), Bossacucanova, Bembeya (Jazz National), and lots of brass for the September feature – including the Bollywood Brass Band, the Crescent City’s New Birth Brass Band, and Romanian gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia with gypsy jazz guitarist Adrian Raso.
Wednesday, September 7
Global Village celebrates Brazilian Independence Day with a wide array of styles and artists from that country. We’ll hear Ary Barroso’s classic song, ”Brazil,” from Trio de Paz, Brazilian jazz from mandolin master Hamilton De Holanda, Afrobeat inspired music from Bixiga 70, nova bossa nova from Bossacucanova, the underground sounds of the Friends from Rio Project, and even some Brazilian music by way of Kansas City from Ensemble Iberica.
Thursday, September 8
Global Village highlights vintage and contemporary ska and roots reggae – including music from the legendary ska band, the Skatalites, and also from Skatalites band members Jackie Mittoo and Rico Rodriguez (as part of Jazz Jamaica), and roots reggae revivalists Ziggy Marley (with brother Stephen Marley), Jamaica’s Raging Fyah (with Jesse Royal), and Baltimore’s Jah Works. Plus more brass bands sounds for the September feature – this time with the acclaimed Balkan brass band, the Boban Markovic (Orkestar) and new music from Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band.
Friday, September 9
Global Village remembers Otis Redding on what would have been his 75th birthday. Along with classic tracks from the soul legend, there are covers of his songs from Toots Hibbert (of Toots & the Maytals fame) and Mongo Santamaria, and some other soul sounds from around the world, and more music for the September Brass Bands feature, this time including the Dirty Dozen Brass Band (from their reworking of Marvin Gaye’s classic album, What’s Going On) and the Treme Brass Band (with their version of Hugh Masekela’s hit song, “Grazing in the Grass.”)
(Strange Currency and Crossroads will also be featuring music of Otis Redding tonight for his birthday.)
