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January 9, 2021:

Celebrating globalFEST and Golden Fest feat. Mames Babegenush's '20 Golden Fest set




Our two favorite winter musical events can't happen in person this year, though both will have online festivals: The world music showcase extravaganza globalFEST (online 8 pm nightly this coming Mon-Thurs Jan 11-14 in a collaboration with NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts) and the Balkan / East European inspired bacchanal Golden Fest (online this coming Fri-Sat Jan 15-16, 6 pm to 1 am nightly). (Check out BRIC TV's video doc of Golden Fest 2020 above!)

On tonight's show we celebrate both, with one track by each of this year's globalFEST online showcasers and a special broadcast of a set by the band that came all the way from Denmark to play Golden Fest last year, klezmer-plus band Mames Babegenush.

Watch globalFEST this Mon-Thurs at 8 pm at https://www.globalfest.org/ or https://www.youtube.com/user/nprmusic/.

Watch the Golden Fest this Fri-Sat 6 pm to 1 am at https://www.goldenfest.org/.

Listen to this show:  Pop-up player!

WFMU and WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise denounce explicit and implicit racism; condemn the culture of white supremacy, which enables the brutalization of black people and other communities of color, and support Black Lives Matter and the movement it stands for.

Here's a link to WFMU's Public Service page with links and info for / related to racial justice issues, coronavirus testing, food and economic assistance, musician aid, voting rights organizations and lots more: https://wfmu.org/psa/.

Also: BRIC has an extensive and regularly updated pandemic crisis resource list on its website with artists, performers etc. in mind but relevant for everyone. See it here: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/resources-artists-during-public-health-crisis.

For a list, with links, of organizations supporting the rights of immigrants and refugees. click here.

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Check out the Transpacific Sound Paradise World Covers YouTube Playlist (many new songs added this week!) at http://tiny.cc/youtube-worldcovers.

Here's a video from our World Covers YouTube playlist:



I have a few other world musicky YouTube playlists under construction including an intriguing "World Music 70s" playlist - you can see them all and subscribe at: http://tiny.cc/wfmu-tsp-youtube.

Also check out our all-time African popular music faves Spotify playlist at: http://tiny.cc/wfmu-tsp-african-faves

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