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September 5, 2020:

Rob & Katie's Labor of Love


The nineteenth edition of an annual late summer tradition: Rob Weisberg and longtime sidekick Katie Gentile play radio ping-pong, trading tracks back and forth. Rob bounces popular and unpopular music from around the world off Katie's vintage and contemporary indie rock. It's genre-clashing at its FMU-iest.

Rob, as you may know, is an unpaid radio DJ and record geek. Katie, on the other hand, is an academic, a Gradiva Award winning author, open-water swimmer and violinist in the band The Special Pillow. The Special Pillow have a brand new album out, World's Finest!



WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise joins in celebrating Global Music Month this September! Global Music Month is a collaborative online mega-festival featuring content from nineteen festivals and event producers in the US and Canada, most of whom normally present in-person festivals and concerts in the summer and autumn months. Because that's not possible this year they've teamed up to cross-promote online events all this month under the Global Music Month banner.

The full daily schedule for Global Music Month is here.

Here's a highlight from this past week's Global Music Month offerings: New York's own Flushing Town Hall presents one of their fun Global Mash-Up concerts from 2018 - Egypt meets Haiti with Zikrayat & Agoci Band:



You can find out more and watch lots and lots of great live-streamed and archival performances from the nineteen and presenters listed below, all September, at:

http://globalmusicmonth.org/

https://www.facebook.com/globalmusicmonth

https://www.instagram.com/globalmusicmonth/

Global Music Month participating festivals and presenters: Afro Roots Festival, Miami, FL, USA • Arts Midwest World Fest, Midwest, USA • Ashkenaz Festival, Toronto, Canada • BU Global Music Festival/Boston University, Boston, MA, USA • City of Chicago World Music Festival Chicago Chicago, IL, USA • Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY, USA • Global Roots Festival/The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA • ¡Globalquerque!, Albuquerque, NM, USA • Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, Bloomington, IN, USA • Madison World Music Festival/Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI, USA • NY Gypsy Festival/ Drom, New York, NY, USA • Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL, USA • Pop Montreal, Montreal, Canada • Seattle Sacred Music & Art Small World Festival, Toronto, Canada • TD Sunfest, London, Canada • URGNT TRNTO • West Lafayette Global Fest Purdue University/West Lafayette, IN, USA • World Music Institute, New York, NY, USA



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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 All-Time African Music Faves Spotify Playlist at http://tiny.cc/tsp-africa. Here's a live performance of one of the gems that's also on our playlist:



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