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Upcoming events:

Saturday, June 22nd, 6pm - 9pm: Invasion of the Italian Roots Bands: Taluna + Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

Two compelling acoustic bands from Italy, north and south: Turin's Taluna explore styles from around Italy, the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. The barnstorming band brings its US / Mexican road show to The Shrine in Harlem on Friday June 21st before making its Garden State debut tonight at FMU.

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (CGS) from Salento, "the heel of the boot" of southeast Italy, keeps the focus on its own roots: The cathartic pizzica tarantata - the (literally) trance-inducing tarantella style from the band's home region. CGS is also on tour now: We'll hear the enervating outfit recorded live in concert earlier this year at Pace University's Schimmel Center - a taste of what to expect when CGS returns to New York to rock Joe's Pub on Thursday June 27th.

Saturday, June 29th, 6pm - 9pm: Parno Graszt, Hungary's Romani Roots Powerhouse

Rocking Romani (Gypsy) band Parno Graszt helps shore up the roots in its tradition-loving hometown, the Romani village of Paszab in northeast Hungary. The nine-piece powerhouse is making its mark elsewhere in Europe too: It has showcased at the prestigious WOMEX World Music Expo; it's been featured on a BBC documentary, and its cds have made the European World Music charts. Parno Graszt extends its reach to the US later this month as one of the featured artists at the esteemed Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC. (Hungary is a main focus of the Folklife Festival this year.) Parno Graszt follows Folklife with a short tour that brings the potent old-country old-school outfit to WFMU tonight and on to Drom in the East Village on Sunday June 30th.

Saturday, July 13th, 6pm - 9pm: Bands from Mali's Legendary Festival in the Desert: Imharhan, Tartit, Mamadou Kelly

The Festival in the Desert was a world-renowned annual musical gathering held near Timbuktu in northern Mali, beloved by local folk as well as lovers of the "desert blues" sound who visited from around the world. That is, until the political unrest that began in 2012 forced a hiatus after that year's festival. This summer three artists who played that last festival hit the road in an awareness-raising North American "Caravan for Peace" Tour, including a free Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors concert on Wednesday July 31st. All three will also come in to play live on Transpacific Sound Paradise: Mamadou Kelly, former sideman for the late great Ali Farka Toure; acclaimed Timbuktu Tuareg acoustic ensemble Tartit (led by singer F.W. Oumar, better known as “Disco"); and Imharhan - a rocking Tuareg electric unit led by (and named after) Disco's brother. Tune in tonight for a taste of the magic of the Festival of the Desert.

Playlists and Archives

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If you'd like information about any of the selections in the playlists above or have any comments or criticism, send an e-mail message to me, Rob Weisberg. I'm always interested in swapping cassettes with folks so if you'd like to hear a program from the archives or if you'd like to hear more of a particular type of music featured on my show, let me know.

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