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Listen to the world’s musical heartbeat on RNW. Hear the World is a brand new world music series where you get to sit in the front row at exciting Dutch world music venues, featuring among others DJ Dolores and Trio Mocoto from Brazil, Fanfare Ciocarlia from Romania and Savina Yannatou from Greece. Hear the World is hosted by Dheera Sujan.

 
upcoming shows:

week 9:
Chiwoniso from Zimbabwe and Atongo Zimba from Ghana

week 10:
Billy Cobham & Asere / Salsa Celtica

week 11:
Djivan Gasparyan / The Black Sea Orchestra

week 12:
Monajat Yultchieva from Uzbekistan and Savina Yannatou from Greece

 

Our selected shows of Hear the World

Radio Show: Djivan Gasparyan / The Black Sea Orchestra

HEAR THE WORLD Week 11 ''..the Black Sea Orchestra consists of musicians representing musical traditions from eight countries on the Black Sea: Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Russia, Moldavia, Ukraine, Romania and Georgia...

Radio Show: Billy Cobham & Asere / Salsa Celtica

Hear the World - Week 10 The world famous jazzrock and fusion drummer Billy Cobham was born in Panama in 1944, but since the age of three he has lived in the United States. Recently he has gone back to his cultura...

Radio Show: Chiwoniso from Zimbabwe and Atongo Zimba from Ghana

Hear the World - Week 9 A performance by the Zimbabwean singer Chiwoniso and her band Culture Vibe. Chiwoniso accompanies her songs with the thumb piano. Her music is a mixture of traditional and modern influence...

Radio Show: Bongo Maffin from South Africa and Oliver Mtukudzi & The Black Spirits from Zimbabwe

HEAR THE WORLD week 8 The South African band Bongo Maffin plays kwaito music, the party and dance music of the black youth from the townships. It is an urban sound in which house, rap, hip hop, reggae, gospel and...

Radio Show: Music from Morocco and Algeria: Cherifa and Djamel Laroussi

HEAR THE WORLD week 7 Both Moroccan singer Cherifa and Algerian singer Djamel Laroussi represent the North African Berber culture, but their music is completely different. Cherifa follows the tradition of...

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