The Pan Africa radio show has entered its next generation with an expanded group of six hosts who are natives of five countries. We recently gathered for a quick photo […]
Exclusive interview with Simone Bottasso of Duo Bottasso
World music host Jeff Spitzer-Resnick recently interviewed Simone Bottasso, an Italian accordion/flute player and half of the music group Duo Bottasso. They met virtually during WOMEX, the Worldwide Music Expo, […]
WORT Goes To WOMEX
WOMEX-the Worldwide Music Expo-was forced to go virtual this year instead of its planned live presentation in Budapest. There were advantages and disadvantages with this decision. While the personal connections […]
From Virtual WOMEX: Exclusive WORT interview with FOKN BOIS
WORT world music programmer Jeff Spitzer-Resnick (co-host of PanAfrica and Diaspora) joined three other hosts: Gloria Hays, Ankur Malhotra and Dan Talmo at WOMEX-the Worldwide Music Expo, which was conducted […]
WORT at WOMEX 2017 Part 5 by Dan Talmo
Here’s one last installment from WOMEX 2017 in Katowice, Poland. For me, the networking dimension of WOMEX was much bigger this year than the past two years. The trade show […]
WORT at WOMEX 2017 Part 4, by Dan Talmo
In a previous post, I said that the bulk of our evenings were spent running among five stages which totaled 15 bands each night. Of the 45 bands presented over […]