Music Planet: Road Trip: Recent Episodes
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Polish singer Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk is our guide to the lost world of pre-WW2 Yiddish Tango. She explores its origins as it arrived from Argentina in the 1920s, to its then beating heart in Warsaw - and the many famous Jewish composers, who perished during the Holocaust. And we hear how Olga and others have been working to revive the music over the last 20 years and more.
Betto Arcos takes us to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for a celebration of cajun and zydeco music
Sebastian Bergholm takes us to the far north exploring the rich tradition of Sámi yoiking
Damascus-born qanun player Maya Youssef takes us on a journey around the music of Syria
Every year since 2008, musicians, singers and dancers gather on both sides of the fence of the US-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana. They get together to celebrate life, unity and brotherhood through the music and dance of Son Jarocho, a traditional music style from Veracruz. Betto Arcos reports from last month's event for our latest Road Trip.
Betto Arcos takes us on a sonic tour of Colombia's Festival Internacional de Cuerdas Pulsadas
Betto Arcos takes us on a sonic tour of Colombia's Festival Internacional de Cuerdas Pulsadas
Betto Arcos reports from the Son Para Milo Festival in Mexico City, with a special focus on Son Huasteco, a traditional style from the north eastern part of the country.
Betto Arcos reports from the Son Para Milo Festival in Mexico City, with a special focus on Son Huasteco, a traditional style from the north eastern part of the country.
Damascus-born, UK-based qanun player Maya Youssef is our guide to some of the great voices and instrumentalists from Syria's classical and folk traditions
From Calypso to Ska - DJ Alex Jordan explores the glorious music of Barbados, with music from Eddie Grant and interviews from Barbadian musicians Nikita Brown and the Mighty Gabby
Yijia Tu is our guide to the music of the Yi People of China (in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces)
Betto Arcos reports from Valledupar, home to Vallenato, a folk style popularised in the 1990s by Carlos Vives and celebrated in the city's annual Vallenato Legend Festival.
Betto Arcos celebrates the rich and diverse folk music scene in Argentina with a focus on female artists from Mercedes Sosa and Teresa Parodi to Nadia Larcher and La Charo
Alexander Kan guides us through the revival of Russian folk music across the last century
Due to the current global pandemic, most venues and performances spaces are closed and festivals cancelled. But musicians are still making music from their homes. Our intrepid guide Betto Arcos takes us on a guide to music from around Latin America that has been made during the lockdown.
Betto Arcos travels across northeast Argentina in search of Chamamé music; a genre of rural dance music absorbing Spanish, Guarani and African influences
Bill Odidi guides us through some of the greatest South African musicians, including Solomon Linda who wrote one of the most famous songs to come out of the region; 'Mbube'
In the second of two reports from Havana, Betto Arcos looks at the revival of Cuban son music; a direct result of the release of Buena Vista Social Club's first album in 1997
Chris Ryu takes us on a Road Trip to South Korea where we discover the interesting ways in which performance genre 'Pansori' is evolving
Zhadyra Zhumakulbay reports from the rich and varied musical heritage of Kazakhstan; a country landlocked between Russia and China
Betto Arcos takes us to the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, where he explores the world of the Portuguese Guitar.
Betto Arcos reports from Havana in the first of two road trips from Cuba. This week explores the emergence of new dance music and the fusion of rumba with jazz and funk
Jérôme Galabert, manager of Sakifo Records, reports from the small volcanic island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean; home to traditional Maloya and Sega music
Chirag Jain reports from India with music from the regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on the Arabian Sea. Also, music from the doyenne of Carnatic music, M. S. Subbulakshmi
Betto Arcos is in Quito exploring music rich in Andean traditions, including sounds of the traditional charango guitar, quena flute and music from the Quechua people
From the bagpipes of the south west to the village tunes of Moravia in the east. Broadcaster Petr Doruzka guides us through the melting pot of influences that make up the music of the Czech Republic.
Artistic Director of Beirut and Beyond festival, Amani Semaan, reports from Beirut with music from Lebanese artists such as Fairuz, Wadih El Safi and Marcel Khalife - some of the most influential musicians in the Arab world.
Bill Odidi reports on the varied musical traditions of Tanzania; from the Chaga communities on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, to the taarab music of Zanzibar
A mountain welcome dance and processional wedding music of the Kabyle people; dancer Amel Tafsout introduces the amazingly varied and rich musical traditions of Algeria
Reporting from Bangalore, arts curator Chirag Jain presents some of the most beautiful music from northern India; from the flatlands of Gujarat through to hills of Bengal
In this week's Road Trip Betto Arcos transports us to the Festival de la Mejorana in Panama, one of the oldest traditional music festivals in Latin America.
Betto Arcos reports from Cartagena; one of the most musically diverse cities on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. This episode comes with addictive Latin beats.
Infectious bagpipe dances, multipart singing and the mesmerising sound of the Latvian zither or 'kokle'. Lauma Berza is our guide through the villages of Latvia.
A giant shepherd's flute, multi-part singing, and field recordings from Béla Bartok; Vladimír Potančok takes us through Slovakia's UNESCO-preserved music
James Isabiyre reports from Uganda, and explores musical traditions from indigenous communities before the country's political upheaval in the late 1960's
Traditional benga music to Afro-fusion, plus legend Ayub Ogada plays the nyatiti (Kenyan harp); broadcaster Bill Odidi reports from Nairobi in this week's road trip
February marked the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, a time of fundamental change for Iran. Women had played a significant role in the revolution but in the aftermath and the ensuing years, they saw their rights and position in society restricted. In a special episode for International Women’s Day, this week’s Music Planet Road Trip comes via Persian singer and advocate for freedom of musical expression, Mahsa Vahdat. Get ready for soaring voices and century-old archive recordings from pre-revolution Tehran as Mahsa takes us on an inspirational musical journey with the women of Iran.
A fierce fiddle jam in southern Denmark, tragic ballads about Nordic kings, and an old 1916 archive recording from the island of Fanø
From ancient choral motets to antagonistic rhyming couplets; Nicoletta Demetriou reports from an island at the crossroads between Asia, Africa and Europe
Reporting from snowy Raugu, musician Mari Kalkun takes on a journey through 4000 years of Estonian music. This road trip comes complete with birdsong, bagpipes and great tunes.
Betto Arcos is in South Texas this week exploring the rich musical tradition of the Conjunto ensemble - music reflecting Cuban, Mexican and German influences.
We're off on a musical pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago or 'Way of Saint James' in northern Spain, with journalist Betto Arcos
Journalist Betto Arcos reports from Mexico in this guide through the controversial and often graphic song form of Narcocorrido (drug ballad) music
Old-style traditional musician Riley Baugus reports from the Blue Ridge Mountains with a banjo-fuelled, foot-stomping road trip through the Appalachians
Producer Paul Chandler reports from Bamako, exploring the rich musical culture of Mali including interviews and music from Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traore
Ethnomusicologist Mu Qian reports on the music of the autonomous Xinjiang region, including recordings from the oasis town of Hotan to Xinjiang's first hip-hop band.
Broadcaster Betto Arcos reports from Lima, including music from inside a traditional Peña bar, the amazing sounds of Afro-Peruvian music 'Música Criolla', Cumbia music and beyond.
This week, Lopa whizzes around Gran Canaria in a taxi and finds some beautiful island melodies, plus a surprise arrangement of Michael Jackson on tiny Canarian guitars.
Singer Eugenia Georgieva takes us on a Road Trip to Bulgaria to see how music was used to keep a sense of national identity in the face of centuries of repression, from Bulgarian traditional folk to the famous female choirs.
Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new release, and every week a bespoke Road Trip from a different corner of the globe, taking us to the heart of its music and culture. Plus special guest Mixtapes and gems from the BBC archives. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.
CBC's Wendy Bergfeldt takes us on a Road Trip to Cape Breton Island in Eastern Canada.
Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new releases, and every week a bespoke Road Trip from a different corner of the globe, taking us to the heart of its music and culture. Plus special guest Mixtapes and gems from the BBC archives. Whether it's traditional Indian ragas, Malian funk, UK folk or Cuban jazz, you'll hear it on Music Planet.
Betto Arcos takes on a virtual musical journey to Paraguay, in which we encounter vintage Paraguayan harp recordings of Félix Pérez Cardozo, the virtuosic electric bass of Paula Rodriguez and The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura.
Join us for a musical journey through Greenland – taking in Inuit singing, drunken sailor shanties and the accidental discovery of the Hawaiian guitar.
Broadcaster Ashanti Omkar from the BBC Asian Network takes us on a Road Trip around the UK to explore British Asian music
Our Road Trip takes us to Festival Med in the South of Portugal where singer Sara Tavares was performing in June - her recommendations include some of the best in fado - from the historic recordings of Amalia Rodrigues to the contemporary sounds of Carminho - as well as local hip-hop artist Carlao who samples the funana bands of his parents' homeland of Cape Verde, an ancestry shared by Tavares herself.
Artist and music promoter Edit Pula takes us on a road trip through Albania's rich musical heritage
DJ and broadcaster Alex Jordan reports from Kingston, Jamaica for this week's Road Trip with music ranging from classic ska and rocksteady to contemporary dancehall.
This week's Road Trip takes us to Spain in the company of Max Moya, a percussion player formerly with the band Ojos de Brujo.
British-Palestinian singer Reem Kelani explores the traditional music of Palestine from before and after 1948, including 1920s singer Thourayya Kaddoura and a field recording made at the Ein al-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon.
As excitement mounts for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, for this week's Road Trip Nataliya Myazina explores the rich culture of Russian folk and roots music.
This May marks 70 years since the declaration of the State of Israel, so for this week's Road Trip, the composer and oud player Yair Dalal talks to us from his home town, the ancient port city of Jaffa, about the rich and complex musical heritage of the communities within Israel.
We take a Roadtrip to Tokyo in the company of DJ and journalist Peter Barakan - he'll be giving us a flavour of where traditional Japanese roots music meets the alternative fringe across Japan.
Arne Berg is in Tromso in northern Norway for this week's Road Trip, reflecting both the country's mainstream roots-based music, and the songs of the Sami people.
In this episode, as Zimbabwe emerges from its years under Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's exiled musicians start returning to their homeland, the singer and traditional mbira player Hope Masike introduces tracks that reflect Zimbabwe's rich heritage – and its lively present.
The team behind World on 3 are excited to introduce a new world music podcast, Music Planet: Road Trip. In each episode, a local expert transports us to a different part of the world, taking us in to the heart of its culture via its music. There’s no passport required; just headphones. Join us for a new episode every week.