Conference of the Birds, 5-8-2026

Conference of the Birds, 6-5-26

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Bebe Manga from Camaroun);   also from Camaroun: Eboa Lottin;  Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford (piano duo)           David Murray w. Octet;   Sonny Rollins x 2 (RIP);  from Albania: Fitnete Rejae, Dervish Shaqja;   recent late/post-bop Walter Smith III, also from  Kenny Barron;    vocalist Alicia Lázaro;   Japanese vocalist Meiko Kaji;    Moroccan band Khmissa;    from Mali: vocalist Naïny Diabaté;    vocalist Kaniba Oulé Kouyaté & hunting music from Senoufo Tagoua;    Joe Henderson (w. Chick Corea, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins;    from Tunisia: Cheikh El Afrite;    also from Tunisia: Hedi Kalal (vocalist, composer, bandleader) & Ali Riahi (vocalist aka. the Tunisian nightingale);    from Cuba: Caridad Hierrezuelo;     new music from Bobby Matos Heritage Ensemble;      Judeo-Arabo-Andalusian song from Alice Fitoussi;      Ammouri M'barek (Amazigh); & of course: so much, much, much more.. Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI & WINO [http://www.wrfi.org]88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG [http://www.wrfi.org]. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com [https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com] via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580] Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22536268/Conference-of-the-Birds [https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22536268/Conference-of-the-Birds] and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG [https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/] https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  [https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/] Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks [https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks] Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR [http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR] NEW MAILING ADDRESS:  Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

Conference of the Birds, 5-29-26

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Salsa from Orquesta La Conspiracion & Orquesta Colon; Chuito es de Bayamon (jibaro salsa); Youllou Mabiala w. L'Orchestre Kamikaze Loningisa (Congolese rumba); new Amina Claudine Myers; recent Meshell Ndegeocello; Senegalese pop-m'balaz from Ifang Bondi; Senegalese poetry w. music from Xam Xam w. Thijs Borsten, Mola Sylla & Sylvia Den Hartog; Mal Waldron w. trio; samba from Eliete Negreiros, Wilson Moreira, Renata Lu & others; flautist Naïssam Jalal w. Robinson Khouryet al.; Myra Melford; McCoy Tyner; & of course: so much, much,much more..   Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI & WINO [http://www.wrfi.org]88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG [http://www.wrfi.org]. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com [https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com] via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580] Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22502012/Conference-of-the-Birds [https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22502012/Conference-of-the-Birds] and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG [https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/] https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  [https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/] Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks [https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks] Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR [http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR] NEW MAILING ADDRESS:  Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

Conference of the Birds, 5-22-26

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Ensemble Infini; vintage African rock from Abeti; Congolese rumba from Papa Wemba as well  as Orchestre Kamale & Mbilia Bel; Ovimbundu music (from Angola); vintage rock from Comoros: Leleu & Menwar;  vintage Stephen McCraven (newly available!); Johnny Dyani (South Africa) w. ensemble; extended blassing/tributte  from improvisational string quartet We Free Strings; cante jondo from Manzanita (vintage) & Maria del Tango (new);  tenor player Rob Brown w/ trio; Reigakusha (from Japan); Turkish Sufi legend  Kudsi Erguner w. Yusuf Bilgin, Aziz Bahriyeli, Fevzi Mısır, et al; more Sufi poetry/song (Qawwali) from Pakistan w/ Hassan Kassayi; . so much, much,much more..   Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI & WINO [http://www.wrfi.org]88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG [http://www.wrfi.org]. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com [https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com] via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580] Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22468819/Conference-of-the-Birds [https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22468819/Conference-of-the-Birds] and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG [https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/] https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  [https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/] Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks [https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks] Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR [http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR] NEW MAILING ADDRESS:  Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

Conference of the Birds, 5-8-2026

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Gordon Grdina (out) & Russ Losing (pIano); Benin-born pianist Tchangodei w.  Archie Shepp (tenor); experimental electro-flamenco from Andreh y Manuela, Andrea Santalusía & The Gardener;  Maghrebi pop from Aida el Ayoubi: Persian dastagh; modern Balouchestani music from Dinmohammad Zangeshai; from Hatam Asgari Langa music from the Thar Desert (Rajasthan) w/ Samsu Khan & Asin Khanplus; Baraka Mkande (new-ish Taarab from Zanzibar); composer, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist Salim Washington; Algerian Kabyle/proto-chaabi composer/musician.vocialist Kamel Hamadi x 2 (once w./ Algerian vocalist Noura, once without); latter-day Lolé (cante jondo vocalist); new piano work from Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford in duo setting; vintage Latino-Senaglese music from the outskirts of Dakar w. Dieuf-Dieul de Thiés; Lebanese pop vocalist Maya Yazbeck; Ajak Kwai (pop vocalist from Mauritania); Dexter Johnson (more African salsa); samba from Jongo da Serrinha & Mestre Marçal;; . so much, much, much more...   Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI & WINO [http://www.wrfi.org]88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG [http://www.wrfi.org]. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com [https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com] via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580] Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22400566/Conference-of-the-Birds [https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22400566/Conference-of-the-Birds] and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  [https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/] Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks [https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks] Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR [http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR] NEW MAILING ADDRESS:  Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

Conference of the Birds, 4-24-26

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Lena Bloch, Andrew McKelvey, Dave Adewumi , & more; vintage West African  music from Bah Sadio, Cameyenne Sofa, Kassé Mady Diabaté; from Benin: Gnonnas Pedro w. His Dadjes Band; vintage song from Iraqi vocalist Sita (aka Seta Hagopian); ; oud player, singer, composer Natik Awayez; recent Iraqi pop from Sozan; raga on santur played by Pt. Bhajan Sopori; salsa from Celia Cruz w. Johnny Pacheco; Joe Arroyo from Colombia; Aniceto Molina from Colombia; Billie Harris (LA post-bop from Billie Harris; plus.... so much, much, much more... Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com [https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com] via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22330233/Conference-of-the-Birds [https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22330233/Conference-of-the-Birds] and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR NEW MAILING ADDRESS:  Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.