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WUMB’s Odyssey features music from just about everywhere, from Albania to Zimbabwe, on a weekly journey that moves slowly across the map to carefully illuminate the connections between neighbors, and also the greater musical community of the world. To listen to recent programs, go to our Weekend Archives page, scroll down to Odyssey and click on a show

July 28- We head north into France, where there is an extraordinary melting pot of different styles, from traditional Musette to folk traditions played on bagpipes and hardy-gurdys to the Celtic music of Brittany. Influences from all over the world have flooded into the musical consciousness of Paris where everything from Algerian Rai to West African soukous have mixed to produce some of the truly great recordings of the past century.

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Odyssey

Sunday July 28, 2024 2:00 pm
  • Music from just about everywhere this week, and concentrating on the traditional styles of France

July 28- We head north into France, where there is an extraordinary melting pot of different styles, from traditional Musette to folk traditions played on bagpipes and hardy-gurdys to the Celtic music of Brittany. Influences from all over the world have flooded into the musical consciousness of Paris where everything from Algerian Rai to West African soukous have mixed to produce some of the truly great recordings of the past century.

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