World Music

Al-Islam and Human Development
A program designed to educate and enhance the human spirit using the Quran and the Life of Muhammad as guides, hosted by Abdul-Karim Bilal.

During the first hour we listened to a fine concert by the Swedish group, Hogmarkarna (recorded by Dick Rees). In the second hour we heard music from a new release on the Smithsonian label from their Music of Central Asia series, we listened to a track from volume 4 the Bardic Divas, a track from Kazakhistan, then a track from Irish accordionist, Josephine Marsh(Tara), then a track from the new release from Taraf de Haidouks(Crammed) with a track from Bela Bartok, followed music from the Klezmatics (Rounder), Music from local musician, Laura MacKenzie (own label), fiddle music from Greece(Raw Fiddle-Rounder), local group, Boiled in Lead (Demo), Flamenco singer, Miguel Poveda (Harmonia Mundi), Retrograss music form David Grisman, John Hartford, and Mike Seeger (Acoustic Disc), and Jewish music from Uganda (Smithsonian)