PRI's The World: Global Hit
PRI's The World: Global Hit
PRI's The World presents the Global Hit podcast, a daily spotlight on international musical artists or trends. Created by The World's Marco Werman, the Global Hit features interwith musicians, critics and deejays around the globe. The World is an US-based international news and analysis program ...
Global Hit
Correspondent Gerry Hadden has an appreciation of protest songs.
Gemma Ray
As long as there have been cool themes and rhythms, musicians have been recycling them. The trick is how to pull that off without sounding derivative. Take the songs of British singer-songwriter Gemma Ray. They sound familiar, but when you stop and ...
Panama! 3
We're going to hear a little music from Panama for today's Global Hit. Specifically music recorded between 1960 to 1975. It's from a CD is called Panama 3. It's part a three CD collection of historic music from Panama released by Sound Way records. We ...
Melody Gardot
American musician Melody Gardot says her introduction to music, and her subsequential international success, have come through a series of accidents. Marco Werman has her story.
Alan Lomax
Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax went to Haiti in the 1930s and recorded about 50 hours of local music. Lomax thought the recordings were unusable, but they have now been restored through digital technology. Ruxandra Guidi has the story.
Orchid Ensemble
We hear music from Canadian-based trio, Orchid Ensemble. Its latest CD is inspired in part by the Uyghur music of northwestern China. The title of "Road to Kashgar." And the Uyghur city of Kashgar is the answer to our quiz today.
Nouvelle Vague
On their new CD, French band Nouvelle Vague cover the Sex Pistols, The Police and other bands from the 1970s and 80s. With the help of young female singers who often don’t know the originals, Nouvelle Vague offer bossa nova, reggae and folk ...
The Soldiers
The World's Laura Lynch profiles a new singing group in Britain called "The Soldiers." They are literally soldiers serving in the British Army, and they've just released a new album called "Coming Home."
Sofia Rei Koutsoviti
Argentine singer Sofia Rei Koutsoviti performs for us in The World studios. Koutsoviti and members of her backing play and chat with anchor Jeb Sharp.
Festival of Harps
Recently, some 40 international harpists and groups of harpists gathered in Oakland, California. The idea behind this Festival of Harps was to move harp music beyond its traditional conventions. That wasn’t hard to do, given that the harps included ...
Kate Miller-Heidke
Reporter Andrea Smardon introduces us to Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke. She started out as an opera singer, but now she's a pop star.
Black Sea Hotel
The World's Alex Gallafent profiles Black Sea Hotel, a four member choir from Brooklyn, New York. It's members are American women. But they sing folk music from the Balkans.
Black Sea Hotel
The World's Alex Gallafent profiles Black Sea Hotel, a four member choir from Brooklyn, New York. It's members are American women. But they sing folk music from the Balkans.
Playing for Change
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with guitarist Louis Mhlanga about his involvement with Playing for Change. This global music project started as a You Tube video and now the Playing for Change ensemble is on tour in the United States.
Bomba Estereo
Anchor Marco Werman introduces us to Colombian band Bomba Estereo who do to cumbia what the Rolling Stones did to the blues: they rock it out.
What's on your iPod - follow up
Clark Boyd follows up with "What's on your iPod?"
Randy Brecker
The latest album from jazz musician Randy Brecker is dedicated to his brother, Mike Brecker, who died in 2007. Randy Brecker talks about how the desperate search to help his brother led him to explore his family history, and to create a very personal ...