Roots

Today we heard shamisen music from the Yoshida Brothers (Doma), Flamenco from Fernanda de Utera(RTV), village music from the Turkos Ensemble of Hungary (Folk-Europa), Dance tunes from Mazandaran, Iran (Mahoor), classical mugam from Azerbaijan by Aqakhan Abdullaev (Inedit), music from the Mbira of Zimbabwe by Ephat Mujuru (Music of the World), North Indian vocalist, Lakshmi Shankar (Ocora), Music from local Chinese composer, Zhang Ying (own label), oldtime autoharp music (Smithsonian), music from the latest live recording by Finnish group, Frigg, Irish tunes from Beoga (Compass), and Paul Brock with Enda Scahill (Compass), tunes from the latest recording of Vasen dedicated to music and times of Linnaeus (Northside), a tune from Scottish singer, Kris Drever (Compass),music from Czech singer/guitarist, Sui Vesan (Global Village), and finnishing off with Irish pipe music from Michael Cooney (Gortnahoe Productions)