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  • Original air date: 2-9-24 (abbreviated, 2 hour episode due to technical malfunction):

    THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Nass El Ghiwane (from Morocco); Gordon Grdina's The Marrow; Cecil McBee w/ Sextet; Rodney Chapman; Namibian song (x 2); Angolan legend Belita Palma (vintage), Bonga (vintage), and Ruy Mingas (new); Cape Verdean vocalists/composers Jorge Humberto (recent) and José Carlos Schwartz (vintage); Congolese rumba from Orchestra Lipua Lipua and Sam Mangwana; Roy Brooks live; much, much more...

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18531828/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

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  • Original air date: 2-16-24

    THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Ruiqi Wang; Etenesh Wassie w. Mathieu Sourisseau (experimental Ethiopian vocal/bass duo); from the Maghreb: Hedi Lajmi, Saloua; Slimane Azem; Salim Halali; British jazz from Elton Dean Quintet; George Gruntz and ensemble; Oratnitza; virtuoso guitarist Ousmane Kouyate and band from Mali; Fatoumata Diawara; Kaniba Oulé Kouyaté; Arthur Blythe; Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell); much, much more...

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18564250/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

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  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Mali Obomsawin w. Magdalena Abrego & Allison Bunk; Tako Taki (music from Japan); Sundanese music from L. S. Kancana Sari Bandung; Detty Kurnia (pop from Bali); Congolese disco from Vibro Success Intercontinental Orchesatra; free jazz/experimental quartet Tulpas (from Mexico City); Astor Piazzola (nuevo tango); Mario Pavone; Sam Rivers on flutes; Anthony Braxton on flute (+ winds and reeds); Eastern European Roma music song from Dil'Dorova Maisara, Bedrije Misin & Ansambl Bracé Koko, & Nehat Gasi; healing trance music from Baluchistan; Salim Halali in Algeria; Abida Parveen (Pakistani soufi) w. Lofti Bouchnak (from Tunisia); straight ahead jazz (live in Senegal) w/ Al Cohn, Billy Mitchell, Dolo Coker, Leroy Vinegar, Frank Butler; much more...

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19480153/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

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    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Samba from Agepê, Dona Ivan Lara, Moyseis Marques; South African jazz from Dudu Pukwana & Spear, McCoy Mrubata (new); Curtis Amy; Ensemble Xu Zeng (instrumental music from China; Sabata 5 & Eureka (from Japan); Farah Kadour; cante jondo from Fosforito, Carmen Linares, El Torta; Phil Cochran; Raga Janpuri from Kishori Amonkar; much more...

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Nadaswaram music (Carnatic) from Namagiripettai Krishnan; Yusuf Lateef (vintage); Japanese jazz from Toshiyuki Miyama & the New Herd; new music from composer and vocalist Ruiqi Wang; new piano & electronics from Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly; solo piano from Matthew Shipp & Marilyn Crispell; new music from Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio; Ikui Doki and Sofia Jernberg in collaboration; Silvia Bolognesi w. Dudu Kouate & Griffin Rodriguez; samba from Gilson Nascimento, MBP from Elza Soares; Teresa Cristina; Wanda Sá; Manuel Valera New Cuban Express Big Band; Cuban salson from Linda Leida; and, as ever, much, much more!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../conference-of.../id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19293238/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG
  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Gulf pop from Abass Al Badri; our from Arman Teboul; Carpathian gnawa from Tariqa; gnawa from Etoile Gnawa; Ava Mendoza & Dave Sewelson; from, 1963, live: Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan,Don Cherry; jazz from Archie Shepp w. Kahil el Zabar's Ritual Trio; Minee Coskun (Turkey) and Takes Vrakatselos (Greece); Dhoffir (from Grand Camaore), Nancy Viera from Cape Verde; Oumou Sangaré from Mali; from Kenya: Mbaraka Mwinshehe & the Morogoro Jazz Band; World Bass Violin Ensemble; Hadi Salia from Sudan; Indian pop from Malika Pukraj; salsa from Sonora Ponceña, Orquesta Colon, and Adalberto Alvarez; and , as ever, much, much more!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19170052/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: bop from Dick Griffin; Thad Jones & the Prestige All-Stars; saxophone virtuosity from Nicole Glover; Baka polyphony; polyphonies from. the Solomon Islands; from South Africa: T. Y. Boys, Mahlatini & the Mahotella Queens, and Somi; Kerfala Brothers & Bonga (from Angola); Johnny Dyani solo; Louis Moholo's Viva la Black; Mahmoud El Idrissi (Moroccan pop singer/composer); Haja El Hamdaouia (Moroccan vocalist); Eva Salina perfroms Bajramoviç; Karen Barca Quartet; and of course, much, much more!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19138871/Conference-of-the-Birdshttps://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19138871/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: vintage Poly-Rythmo (as T. P. Orchestre) w. Betti Betti; also vintage, also from Benin: Orchestre/Band de Parakou Nord; from Mali: Orchestre Regional de Segou (misidentified on audio); vintage Billy Bang w. quartet (Don Cherry, Wilber Morris, Dennis Charles); Denman Maroney w. Leroy Jenkins, Rich O;'Donnell; from Cabo Verde: Nancy Vieira (new); Galáxia 2000; from Angola: Lily Tchumba, Ruy Mingus (new), Belita Palma; bop from Tina Brooks w/ quintet; Myra Milford with Chris Jonas & group; from Tunisia: modern, popular, folk, tribal musics (vocal and otherwise) from Heidi Habbouba, Saliha; Sofia Chaima, and Naama; Girma Yifrashewa w. Patrice Legrand et al. (Franco-Ethiopian chamber music); the Sea Ensemble (Kali Fasteau, Rafael Garrett, et al.); Algerian Raï from Fadela; and of course, much, much more!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19076476/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: John Handy; flamenco and.or cante jondo from Rocio Jurado; Chocolate; Aurora Vargas; Pansequito; La Macanita; new music from Bill Cole's Untempoered Ensemble; vintage Dewey Redman w. Modular Dynamics; from UzbekistanL: Mariam Suttarova; Konembou musicians from Tchad; Sudanese pop from Mohammed Wardi (north) and Gordon Koang (south); classical Egyptian vocalist Aziza Galal; from Greece: Sophia Votta; James Carter solo; nd of course, much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19045423/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Sawt music from Bahrain w. Muhammed bin Faris & Ensemble; lots of Lusofonia: from Brazil: Marilia Medalha, Nelson Gonçalves, The Ipanemas, Elza Soares, and others; from Angola: Belita Palma and Teta Lando; new jazz from Annie Chen; experimental jazz/.gnaoua from Joachim Kühn, Majid Bekkas & Ramon Lopez; new Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones; Hsaing Waing music from Burma; vintage music from the Star Band of Senegal; from Mali: Akofa Akoussah; pianist Matthew Shipp, solo; Etoile De Namaco (vintage West African political authenticité); Saïd Outajjajt (Moroccan Rrways music): and of course, much, much more!!!!B

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18983608/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Ava Mendoza & Dave Sewelson; Fay Victor & Herbie Nichols SUNG; Herbie Nichols himself, w/ trio; Mal Waldron w. Steve Lacy; Romanian song from Dona Dumitru Siminica, as well as Dumitru Ridescu & Mituța Ridescu; Balkan music from Ilieve Glogovac Vaska and Ivo Popasov; Anthony Braxton's #296 (w/ quintet;) Algerian cha'abi from Amar el Achab, Cheikh el Hasnaoui, Dahmane el Harrache; Lebanese song from Ziyad Al Rahbani; Liba Villavecchia Trio w. Luis Vicente; Antillean flute from Max Cilla; Cecil Taylor's Orchestra of Two Continents; Rumbavana (from Cuba) as well as Santeria/ Rumba from Martha Galarraga and others; and of course, much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18952193/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new Farrah Kadoor; archival Alice Coltrane: Dominik Bukowski Quartet; Gulf singer Talah Maddah; Ta'arab from Zuhula Swaleh; from Vision Fest: Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker, Steve Hirsh; quartet music from Lisa Mezzacappa, Vinny Golia, Marco Eniedi, Vijay Anderson; new vocal music from Ruiqi Wang; Lebanese pop from Googoosh; Bossa from Rosa Passos, Nara Leão; Congolese song from Franklin Boukoka; Hank Jones w/ Check Tidiane Seck & the Mandinkas; and of course, much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18920259/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Mali Obomsawin; Girija Devi & Ustad Bismillah Khan; Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats & Hozan Yamamoto; Louis Belogenis; Moroccan sufis Confrérie des Aïssawa in Tunisi a; cante jondo from Mariana de Cádiz, Love y Manuel, José Mercé; Greek song from Vassilis Tsitsanis and Poly Panou; Vangelis Soukas (clarinet from Epirius); The Caresser satirizes Christopher Columbus; Lassana Hawa Cissokho from Mali; Ken McIntyre; David Murray; and of course, much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18854765/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Egyptian vocalist Maryam Saleh w. Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Maurice Louca; Pakistani vocalist Aroof Aftab w. Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily; rembetika (past and present) from Pasatempo w. Christos Govetas & Marcos Vamvakaris; bop from Sonny Clark; from the archives: John Tchicai, Garrison Fewell, Charlie Kohlhase, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart; new Les Amazones d'Africa; newly re-released Rail Band; l'Ensemble Instrumental Du Mali (feat. Nantenedie Kamissoko); Congolese soukous from Les Wanyika; new LA jazz from Billy Mohler; Sathima Bea Benjamin; Algerian raï from the greats: Cheb Hasni & Cheb Nasro; music from Greece, Mali, Congo/Zaïre, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and, of course, much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18788839/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Nathalie Natiembé; new music from Bobby Zankel & Wonderful Sound; orchestral music from Keith Tippett; from Brazil: Monica Salmaso; Nana Caymmi; João Bosco; Jair Rodrigues; Nara Leão; vintage song from Doug Carn; hard Bop from Johnny Griffin & Jerome Richardson; Delta music from Bahr Abu Jerith; The Miyumi Project (Tatsu Aoki, Francis Wong, Ed Wilkerson, Mwata Bowden..et al.); classical Egyptian song Sayed Darwish; Kuwaiti pop Talah Maddah; and (of course)( much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18756336/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • Blast from the (recent) past...

    THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Guerouabi (Algerian cha'abi. hawzi); Roma music from, Bajramio Selime; Romano Dives; Trio Zazaji, and others; long lost and recently found John Coltrane w. Eric Dolphy; Peter Brötzman (RIP); Other Dimensions in Music live in France; vintage LA jazz from Jesse Sharps; early JKacques Council w/ the Jacques Coursil Unit; from Senegal: Kiné Lam; from Haiti: Les Freres Dejean and Etoile du Soir; plus m music from. Balouchistan, Tunisia, Macedonia, and of course much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18724154/Conference-of-the-Birdshttps://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18724154/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Egyptian composer Nadah El Shazly; Congolese rumba from Bopol Mansiamina and Tabu Ley Rocheareau; Italian songstress Ornella Vanoni; vintage David S. Ware; recent Roscoe Mitchell (w. trio); brand new music from Amirtha Kidambi and Elder Ones; Kuwait/gulf singer Rabab; Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton in Copenhagen; Kenny Duorham goes Afro-Cuban; Cuban legend Pío Leyva; also from, Cuba ; Guillermo Pompa Montero; guaguancó fro, Principe y su; popular Brazilian bossa and samba from Maria Bathânia; Abel Silva & Roberto Menascal (w. Wanda Sá); cross-cultural collaboration in music/poetry (Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Argentina..,.) from Vinicius de Moraes, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Sergio Endrigo, et al. and of course much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18724154/Conference-of-the-Birdshttps://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18724154/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

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  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from the Blue Reality Quartet and Bobby Zankel & The Wonderful 8; vintage music from Dorothy Ashby, Dewey Redman & Ed Blackwell, Eric Dolphy & Booker Little; cante jondo from Enrique "el Extremeño" as well as Niña de la Puebla & La Paquera de Jerez; cha'abi from Boudjema el Ankis & Ali Yahyaten; from Haiti: Tabou Combo & Toto Bissainthe; much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18692417/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden:

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    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: cante jondo from El Lebrijano; Lisle Ellis "What We Live" salute Lyn Hejinian; rembetika from Marika Papagika; Dominic Lash Quartet; Roy Haynes w. Roland Kirk et al; salsa from Orquesta Harlow (saluting Arsenio Rodriguez) and Orquesta Akokán; Leon Keita (vintage music from Mali); Lassana Hawa Cissokho; Billie Harris; from Morocco: Haja El Hamdaouia, Najaf Aatabou, melhún singers Abdesalam Khaloufi and Muhammed Dallal; Hafez Modirzadeh; much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18661145/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]

  • THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Roma song from Vera Bila & Kale and Ljiljana Buttler; Aurora Vargas and El Torta (cante jondo); new music from Tomasz Dabrowski & The Individual Beings; new music from James Brandon Lewis; new music from Mali Obomsawin; new music from Roman Norfleet; vintage Art Ensemble of Chicago; Jim Pepper; Charles Lloyd; rare Moroccan orchestral/vocal music feat. Mohammed Lahyani; Oranese song from Algeria w/ Ahmed Wahby; Oranese Raï w/ Khaled; the great Milton Nascimento; much, much more!!!!

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI: 88.1FM Ithaca, 89.7FM Odessa, 91.9FM WINO Watkins Glen. and WORLDWIDE online at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/18628754/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    Contact: [email protected]