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Maritime music and Salento soul

Lopa Kothari presents the best in folk and roots-based music from around the world, with Bahamian harmonies and footstomping rhythms from southern Italy.

Lopa Kothari presents the best in folk and roots-based music from around the world. This week she sets sail, taking in the traditional harmonies of Bahamian ensemble The Dicey Doh Singers, and a song for the sea from Mauritian 鈥済riot of the islands鈥 Menwar. Also, Officina Zo猫 offer up a footstomping take on ancestral rhythms from Salento in southern Italy, and Argentinean musician Marco Grancelli shares the fruits of a South American road trip on his debut solo album.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
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Release date:

59 minutes

On radio

Sat 26 Sep 2026 21:30

Broadcast

  • Sat 26 Sep 2026 21:30

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