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Music Of India, Golden Age Of Africa, James Brown, Cinco De Mayo & New Month/New Music Time!

Monday, May 2

Global Village highlights award winners, including world and world-inspired music from Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners – among them Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, George Harrison, Bob Marley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and May featured artist Ravi Shankar. Plus music from a Juno-nominated release from Ayrad, and a Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning album from Carlos Vives.

Tuesday, May 3

Global Village marks birthdays of Pete Seeger and James Brown, highlights music from May featured artist Anoushka Shankar, and showcases new releases from Sweet Honey in the Rock and Baaba Maal.

Wednesday, May 4

Global Village highlights some classic artists and recordings from the ‘Golden Age of African Music’: the period roughly between the late ‘50s and the early ‘80s when musicians across the continent, inspired by independence, electronic instruments, and fusions with Western and other influences, created a vast body of innovative work. Plus the East-West fusion of Ananda Shankar (from the new Rough Guide to the World of Psychedelia) for the May Music of India feature, and new music from Haiti’s Lakou Mizik and the Virgin Islands' Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights.

Thursday, May 5

Global Village celebrates Cinco de Mayo with a wide array of styles and sounds from musicians and bands from Mexico and of Mexican heritage – including Esquivel, Lila Downs, Santana, Los Lobos, Mexican Dubwiser, the Mexican Institute of Sound, Linda Ronstadt and more.

Friday, May 6

It’s New Month/New Music time in the Global Village. Each month, Global Village devotes an entire show to the best of new world music releases. Among the highlights this time:

A new set of rarities from Fela’s early band, Koola Lobitos

Spanish afrobeat band, the Alma Afrobeat Ensemble

Another impressive project from Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble

May featured artist Anoushka Shankar’s new project inspired by the global plight of refugees

The Same Heart soundtrack

Contemporary pan-Latin sounds from L.A.’s Buyepongo

Vintage K-Pop in a whole new way from French group Baeshi Bang

And a new live set from Brazilian Tropicalia legends Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil.

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.