Bon Ton Potpourri

Al compás del mundo #173, 3-27-25 – greatest hits of programs #36-38

01 D.R. Parvatikar – Svarǎmandalǎ (India)

02 Conjunto Alma Jarocha - El Cascabél (México)

03 Stringquake - Sacramento Kai Lodi (USA)

04 Luciel Izumi - Flor de Huancayo (Bolivia)

05 Kathy Mattea - Gone, Gonna Rise Again (USA)

06 Clarence Ashley with Doc Watson - Little Sadie (USA)

07 Clifton Chenier - Bon Ton Roulet (USA)

08 Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys - La Danse de Mardi Gras (USA)

09 The Reel Time Travelers - Like a Songbird That Has Fallen (USA)

10 Jerry Garcia and David Grisman - Shady Grove (USA)

11 Ralph Stanley - Little Maggie (USA)

12 Sarah Jarosz - Fischer Store Road (USA)

13 Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Perrine etait servante (Canada)

14 Vivi - Toe Meme Maloya (Reunión Island)

15 Yves Simon - Zelda (France)

16 Brigitte Fontaine and Areski - Je suis venu te voir (France and Algeria)

17 Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band - Besame mucho (Switzerland)

You’re being offered a chance to revisit some shining gems from out of previous curated playlists – these back to programs #36-38, from July of 2022. Out of the hideous gloom of the covid epidemic light shone forth as a radio beacon spread from Tequisquiapan, Querétaro in central Mexico to the world-wide web and beyond! And few tunes shone as brightly as the shimmering harp of Indian master D.R. Parvartikar…or the rhythmic and righteous harp from the Conjunto Alma Jarocha out of Veracruz, Mexico…and yes, one more harp performance gracing us from the San Francisco Bay Area in the guise of the duet known as Stringquake. These were but a handful of songs from a program featuring stringed instruments, and so herein we throw out a last overture by Bolivian Luciel Izumi on the charango – a small guitar-like musical device crafted from the shell of an armadillo. The following week’s playlist consisted of blue grass and country music, so back for more come stalwarts Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson, Clifton Chenier, Ralph Stanley and a gaggle of talented performers playing downhomey, acoustic sounds to soothe our souls. From that gaggle to the McGarrigles as a lead-off to the final selections from a program of French speakers. Probably your first opportunity to hear music from Reunión Island, n-est pas? And if you didn’t know of Yves Simon or Brigitte Fontaine, you’re probably not from France and over age 65. While you scramble for your passport we’ll close the show with a warhorse of a tune, “Besame Mucho”, sung in French, of course.

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