World Music Institute - WMI Plus at Home
WMI Plus At Home brings you into the personal environments of renowned artists from around the world as they share stories and music in an intimate conversation with a fellow musician, journalist, or ethnomusicologist.These talks were originally presented as live webinars, and you can watch videos of all of our past At Home sessions on our website and YouTube channel. WMI Plus At Home events are supported by donations from world music lovers like you. We thank you! Podcast artwork courtesy of Cody Hudson - https://www.struggleinc.com
Episodes
23 episodes
Sardinian Guitar Innovator Paolo Angeli with Guitarist Joel Harrison
Sardinian guitarist, composer, vocalist, and instrument innovator Paolo Angeli recently joined us for a WMI Plus At Home conversation with fellow guitarist and founder and director of the Alternative Guitar Summit Joel Harrison. P...
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Multi-Instrumentalist Jen Shyu with Rachel Cooper
Jen Shyu is a versatile composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, her instruments include piano, violin, Taiwanese moon lute, Chinese erhu, Japanese biwa, and Korea...
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Hurdy-Gurdy Player Ariel Ninas and Devon Léger
Ariel Ninas has been playing the hurdy-gurdy since 2001, incorporating a unique style based on traditional Galician music. His work blends elements of contemporary avant-garde aesthetics, including electronic, droning, and free improvisation. H...
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Thandiswa Mazwai with Farima Kone Kito
Thandiswa Mazwai sits down with Farima Kone Kito to discuss her upbringing in Apartheid South Africa and shares insights on her latest album Sankofa, created in Soweto, Dakar, and NYC, in which she brings traditional music from across ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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47:56
Pura Fé and Gwendolen Cates
Pura Fé, an Indigenous activist, singer-songwriter, and storyteller of Tuscarora/Taino descent, is known for her soulful voice. She founded the Native Women’s a cappella trio, Ulali, empowering Native women’s music. Pura Fé explores Nati...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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46:32
WNYC's John Schaefer with Yonatan Gat, Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson, and Maalem Hassan Benjaafar
Ahead of his performance at the New York Guitar Festival, now in its 25th year, producer, guitarist, and composer Yonatan Gat (Stone Tapes) sat down with the Host of WNYC's New Sounds, John Schaefer, joined by two artists who will also perform ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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55:32
Haleh Liza Gafori and Shahzad Ismaily - The Poetry of Rumi
In this WMI Plus At Home, Haleh Liza Gafori and Shahzad Ismaily engage in a conversation about the timeless and universal appeal of the music and poetry of Rumi. Rumi was a Persian Sufi mystic and dervish from the 13th century whose spiritual w...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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51:37
Clarinetist Oran Etkin and Brazilian Pianist Benjamin Taubkin
Grammy Award-winning Israeli-born composer, clarinetist, and educator Oran Etkin and Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer, and producer Benjamin Taubkin came together to discuss their passion for and commitment to engaging in a m...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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54:03
Iranian Composer, Vocalist, and Kamancheh Master Mehrnam Rastegari
Mehrnam Rastegari is an award-winning score composer, singer, and master kamancheh player. Originally born in Iran, she now lives in NYC. For this WMI Plus At Home session, she is joined in conversation with her friend and fellow composer and k...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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56:13
Dominican Guitarist Yasser Tejeda with Journalist Ed Morales
Yasser Tejeda, an award-winning Dominican composer, guitarist, vocalist, and producer, shares music and talks with author and journalist Ed Morales about his third album La Madrugada (Daybreak), the African roots of Dominican tradition...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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56:12
Brazilian Cellist Dom La Nena with Catalina Maria Johnson
Multi-lingual composer, vocalist, and cellist Dom La Nena joins journalist Catalina Maria Johnson (Beat Latino) for a special WMI Plus At Home conversation from Dom's home in Paris. She performs songs from her critically-acclaimed solo...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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54:01
Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango
This special WMI Plus At Home Session commemorates Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. Join members of the Payadora Tango Ensemble and Lenka Lichtenberg with journalist/music producer Dan Rosenberg as they present stories and m...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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54:17
Changüí - The Music of Guantánamo w/ Arturo O'Farrill and Gianluca Tramontana
Music producer and journalist Gianluca Tramontana joins Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, educator, and founder of the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance Arturo O'Farrill, for an exploration of changüí - a rarely document...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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53:38
Composer, Percussionist, and Author Adam Rudolph with Journalist Piotr Orlav
Adam and journalist Piotr Orlov chat about Adam's many collaborations with artists including Don Cherry, Hassan Hakmoun, Dave Liebman, and Yusuuf Lateef that were part of the WMI legacy series of the late 1980s / early 1990s called 'Improvisati...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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50:34
Tibetan Artist Yungchen Lhamo and Jamshied Sharifi
Award-winning Tibetan singer/songwriter Yungchen Lhamo joins her friend Tony Award winner and record producer Jamshied Sharifi to share her beautiful voice along with a conversation about her unusual journey from Tibetan to Australia and the US...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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54:16
Lokua Kanza with Banning Eyre (Afropop Wordwide)
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist Lokua Kanza sat down with Banning Eyre (Afropop Worldwide, NPR) to share music and talk about his work as a UNICEF ambassador, developing his unique musical style mixing his conservatory train...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:00:31
Irish American Violinist Eileen Ivers with Paul Keating
Grammy Award winner Eileen Ivers, hailed “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin” by The New York Times, shares tunes and chats with Irish Voice columnist Paul Keating about her musical training and upbringing in The Bro...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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59:45
Tabla Virtuoso Zakir Hussain with Radio Host David Ellenbogen
World renowned Grammy Award-winning tabla artist, composer, and music producer Zakir Hussain shares stories from his life and career beginning with his father, tabla legend Allah Rakha, the genesis of prolific collaborations with artists ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:01:04
Afro-Cuban Jazz Vocalist Daymé Arocena with Writer Ned Sublette
With her captivating charisma and radiant spirit, Daymé Arocena effortlessly blends traditional Santerían chant, jazz stylings, contemporary R&B influences, and Afro-Cuban rhythmic complexity for audiences worldwide. For this At Home ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:00:44
Acclaimed Composer, Musician and Educator Simon Shaheen with Wanees Zarour
This At Home session features a conversation between internationally acclaimed musician, composer, and educator Simon Shaheen with fellow Palestinian musician and educator Wanees Zarour. Shaheen, a virtuoso on both the oud and violin, tal...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:02:31
Irish Multi-Instrumentalist Seamus Egan and Stephen Winick
An At Home conversation with multi-instrumentalist, composer and co-founder of Irish American super group Sólas, Seamus Egan, who played traditional Irish instruments and chatted with folklorist Steve Winick about the importance of Mick Moloney...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:04:07
Chinese and American Folk Music with Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn
Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn share music from their eponymous collaborative album, demonstrate the banjo and the guzheng, and talk with journalist Jeremy Goldkorn about the joys of weaving together two seemingly different musical traditions....
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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57:44
Israeli Troubador David Broza with Folk Legend Peter Yarrow
Israeli songwriter, guitarist and humanitarian David Broza shares music and talks with his longtime friend and fellow humanitarian Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) about creating music for healing and social change, and David's experience of...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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