Another episode from self-isolation — hope you’re all staying well and finding ways to entertain yourselves! Maybe streaming concerts?
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Continue reading 2020-04-03 World Music Mix-World Music in a Time of Quarantine, Part 3
Dug through the archives this week to find songs that reflect our current times. The result is two hours of music about enjoying life while keeping a safe distance.
We hope you’re all doing well, staying healthy, and finding ways to keep busy. Here at STG home studios, we’re getting some gardening done, finding ways to exercise, and experimenting with new cooking adventures (yesterday, beignets!). And the music will continue to flow, because in these times we all need music.
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Continue reading 2020-03-27 Songs of Isolation, Hope, Distance, and Health
Can a mostly closed radio station and self-isolation stop the music? Nope. We still bring you a great mix of mostly new global tunes. Because you need something to listen to while in your own little quarantine.
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Continue reading 2020-03-20 Wash Your Hands Mix
The tabulating hamsters were self-quarantining this week, so this show didn’t feature the expected countdown of Top 10 albums. But it did feature a great mix of global sounds. And you can check out the latest STG chart right here.
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Continue reading 2020-03-13 World Music Mix
Balkan Night Northwest (which is, alas, cancelled) + International Women’s Day (which is not) = Balkan Women! We celebrate women musicians from Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Slovenia, Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia Herzegovina this week. Along with woman-led music from other parts of the planet.
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Continue reading 2020-03-06 Music of Balkan Women
Global songs about leaping and jumping to help you celebrate this year’s bonus day. Plus new releases, old faves, and concert previews in hour 2.
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Continue reading 2020-02-28 GLobal Music for Leap Day
Really great and diverse sounds in this week’s Top 10 countdown, with music from Vietnam, Portugal, Ethiopia, South Korea, Mali, Austria, the USA, and more. Plus a mix of old and new global tunes in hour 2.
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Continue reading 2020-02-21 – Top 10 Global Albums, February
Love is complicated. So we observe Valentine’s Day with songs of love, heartache, hope, dating, breakups, fleeing from graveyards, and other complications. Wherever you are, we’ve got you covered, musically speaking.
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Continue reading 2020-02-14 Love, Factually
Bob Marley’s birthday is actually February 6, but we kept the celebration going with classic sounds from him along with a heap of Marley covers from other great global artists.
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Continue reading 2020-02-07 Happy Birthday Bob Marley
January 31 is the birthday of pioneering ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, so we’ll trace his travels through sound, spinning mostly newer sounds from the places he visited along with sounds he recorded in his travels from the Bahamas in 1935 to Morocco in 1967. Plus other great global music in hour 2.
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Continue reading 2020-01-31 Revisiting Alan Lomax