Live from WOMAD
Andrew McGregor and Lopa Kothari with a programme from the 2010 WOMAD festival. With Staff Benda Bilili, Horace Andy, Hanggai, Chumbawumba and Ska Cubano, plus interviews.
Andrew McGregor, Lopa Kothari and Lucy Duran present a weekend of broadcasts from the globe's leading festival of world music, live from the festival site in Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Tonight, Congolese award-winners Staff Benda Bilili and roots reggae veteran Horace Andy on the Open Air Stage, Chinagrass ensemble Hanggai from inner Mongolia in the Siam Tent, plus English folk radicals Chumbawamba and Caribbean dance band Ska Cubano on Radio 3's own stage in the shady Arboretum. Plus interviews and truck sessions, starting off more than seven hours of live broadcasting from WOMAD.
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Staff Benda Bilili
Marguerite
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers James Birtwistle and Paul Wones.
Live from Radio 3 stage @ Womad
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Ska Cubano
Tequila
Performers: Natty Bo (vocals); Carlos Pena (vocals); Ernesto Estruch (piano); Oreste Noda (Cuban percussion); Megumi Mesaku (sax); Jay Phelps (trumpet); Trevor Edwards (trombone); Rey Crespo (double bass); Jesus Cutino (guitar); Reuben White (drums)
- Performed live on Radio 3 stage at WOMAD, Malmesbury, Friday 23rd July, mixed by sound engineers Marvin Ware and Andrew Smillie.
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Ska Cubano
Hold Tight Jamaica
Performers: Natty Bo (vocals); Carlos Pena (vocals); Ernesto Estruch (piano); Oreste Noda (Cuban percussion); Megumi Mesaku (sax); Jay Phelps (trumpet); Trevor Edwards (trombone); Rey Crespo (double bass); Jesus Cutino (guitar); Reuben White (drums)
- Performed live on Radio 3 stage at WOMAD, Malmesbury, Friday 23rd July, mixed by sound engineers Marvin Ware and Andrew Smillie.
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Ska Cubano
Piel Canela
Performers: Natty Bo (vocals); Carlos Pena (vocals); Ernesto Estruch (piano); Oreste Noda (Cuban percussion); Megumi Mesaku (sax); Jay Phelps (trumpet); Trevor Edwards (trombone); Rey Crespo (double bass); Jesus Cutino (guitar); Reuben White (drums)
- Performed live on Radio 3 stage at WOMAD, Malmesbury, Friday 23rd July, mixed by sound engineers Marvin Ware and Andrew Smillie.
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Chumbawamba
Song on the Times
Performers: Neil Ferguson (guitar); Lou Watts (guitar); Boff Whalley (guitar); Phil Moody (accordion)
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Duncan Rhodes.
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Chumbawamba
Add me
Performers: Neil Ferguson (guitar); Lou Watts (guitar); Boff Whalley (guitar); Phil Moody (accordion)
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Duncan Rhodes.
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Chumbawamba
Wagner
Performers: Neil Ferguson (guitar); Lou Watts (guitar); Boff Whalley (guitar); Phil Moody (accordion)
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Duncan Rhodes.
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Chumbawamba
Singing out the day
Performers: Neil Ferguson (guitar); Lou Watts (guitar); Boff Whalley (guitar); Phil Moody (accordion)
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Duncan Rhodes.
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Chumbawamba
Ebay
Performers: Neil Ferguson (guitar); Lou Watts (guitar); Boff Whalley (guitar); Phil Moody (accordion)
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Duncan Rhodes.
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Calypso Rose
Back to Africa
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers James Birtwistle and Paul Wones.
Live studio session @ Womad 2010
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Calypso Rose
Fire in me Wire
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Roger Dowling and Nick Ford.
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Horace Andy
Children of Israel
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Paul Wones.
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Horace Andy
Sky Larking
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Paul Wones.
Live from Siam tent stage @ Womad
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Hanggai
Wuji
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Paul Wones.
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Hanggai
My Banjo and I
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Paul Wones.
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Hanggai
Five Heroes
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Martin Appleby and Paul Wones.
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Safroman
Afrika Mokili Mobimba
- BBC Recording by Sound Engineers Marvin Ware and Andrew Smillie.
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