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Welcome to the audio home page for the CONFERENCE of the BIRDS, a weekly radio program/podcast featuring a heterogeneous, intra-continental mix of music and song. Various genres, forms, formats, and styles are featured, juxtaposed and intermingled, from free-jazz to field recordings. Listen here for a weekly mix of popular, classical, folk, religious, radical, experimental, spiritual, political, and poetic musics from around and beyond the globe. COB airs LIVE, Friday evenings, 9:00 - 12:00 midnight, Eastern USA time, on WRFI and WINO radio, ithaca/Watkins Glen/Odessa New York (www.wrfi.org). Online 24/7. Always free.
Episodes
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 12-6-19
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
This week: Boka de Banjul; Lankum; Roque Dalton (performed by Julio Cortázar); Byron Allen Trio; Kaiti Grey; Lemzo Diomono; Faqirs du Sindh; Baul music from Bengal (x2); Mamar Kassey; Thelonious Monk; Camaron; La Macanita; Cecil Taylor; Conlon Nancarrow; Marilyn Crispell; Dorothy Ashby; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists via WRFI:
https://www.wrfi.org/localprograms/conferenceofthebirds/
or via blogspot:
or VIA SPINITRON:
https://spinitron.com/m/playlist/view/9931765
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 8-30-19
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Monday Sep 02, 2019
This week: Lata Mangeshkar; Elida Almeida; Dieuf-Dieul De Thies; Nasro; Googoosh; Sayeeduddin Dagar (dhrupad); Jimmy Woods Sextet; Rich West; Bobby Hutcherson; Adalberto Santiago; Adalberto Alvarez; Esma; Raoul Journo; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 8-2-19
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
This week: Mashrou' Leila; Anna Abdykalykova; Toto Necessite; Henri Bowane; Angel Bat Dawid; Roy Haynes; Yusef Lateef; Abdelwahab Doukkali; Mimin Aminah; Uun Budiman & New Jugala Gamelan Orchestra; The Fictive Five (Ochs, Filiano, Niggenkemper, Eisenstadt, Wooley); Javier Paxariño, Chano Domínguez & Hozan Yamamoto; Rail Band; Bembeya Jazz National; Other Dimensions in Music; Dewey Redman; music from Iraqi radio; Dijf Sanders; Johnny Clegg (RIP): much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 7-12-19
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
This week: Rachel Musson w. trio; Fred Anderson w. Hamid Drake; Dalida Rahme; Saban Bajramoviç; Lebrijano; Tarif de Haidouks; La Paquera de Jerez; Enrique "el Extremeño"; Szilárd Mezei; Fay Victor w. Marc Ribot; Brigitte Fontaine w/ Art Ensemble of Chicago; João Gilberto (RIP); Abbey lincoln w. Archie Shepp et al.; Simaro; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 6-21-19
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
This week: Farid el Atrache; Les Gypsies de Petition Ville; Thione Seck & Raam Daan; Orchestre Bella Bella; Lambert Kabako & Les Bantous de la Capitale; Joe Cuba Sextet; Joe Chambers; Mayte Martín; Aurora Vargas; Alice Coltrane; Kamal Tarbas; Marty Ehrlich; Gal Costa; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 4-5-19
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Monday Apr 15, 2019
This week: A. B. Spellman; Raphé Malik; Nathaniel Mackey w. Royal Hartigan and Hafez Modirzadeh; Adele Sebastian; Sathima Bea Benjamin; Sara Tavares; Carlos do Carmo w. Cristina Branco; Ga'anda flute music; Simaro (RIP) w. Le T.P. OK JAzz; Orchestra Baobab (RIP Isaa Cissokho); Angelika Niescier; Steve Coleman w. Jen Shyu et al.; Kine Lam; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 3-8-19
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
This week: Mohamed Rouicha; Bob Marley; Ousmane Sacko; Beth Carvalho; Nahawa Doumbia; Coltrane x 2; Bonga w. Jó Maka & Tião; Cossi Anatz; Sun Ra; Kamasi Washington; Ben Lamar Gay; Chico Freeman; Vassilis Tsitsanis; Wadi al-Safi; Yiorgos Mitsakis; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Conference of the Birds, 1-11-19
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
This week: Mohammed al-Idrissi; Antonio Agujetas; Mariem Hassan; Eric Dolphy; Billie Holiday; Ali Hassan Kuban; Shafqat Ali Khan; Shazia Tarannum; Frank Lowe; Shruti Sadolikar; Syran Mbenza; Ivo Perelman; Chico O'Farrill w. Dizzy Gillespie et al.; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Conference of the Birds, 10-5-18
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Friday Oct 12, 2018
This week: Veenai E Gaayathri; El Boleco; Kostas Soukas; Eleni Roda; Jo Amar; Ethio Stars w. Mulatu Astatke; Oualaya; David S. Ware; Omar Pene; Hamiet Bluiett (RIP) x 3; Faqirs du Sindh; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Conference of the Birds, 8-31-18
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
This week: Mapenda Seck; Bobby Hutcherson; Susie Ibarra; Robert "Robi" Svärd; Detty Kurnia; Malavoi; Claudia Acuña; Virgilio Marti; Willie Colon; El Chocolate; Raoul Journo; David S. Ware; Alfredo Rodriguez; Malavoi; much more...
Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe.
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580?mt=2
Playlists: confbirds.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks
Contact: confbirds@gmail.com