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WOMAD

Music: World

Live music and recorded highlights from the globe's leading festival of world music.

The Radio 3 Stage hosts a unique mix of new artists, and the on-site studio broadcasts highlights, exclusive interviews and the celebrated truck sessions.

WOMAD: WOMAD Live 2013

WOMAD: WOMAD Live 2013: Episode 1: Seun Kuti and Zykopops

Seun Kuti and Zykopops

Episode 1

Episode 1: Seun Kuti and Zykopops

WOMAD Live 2013

BBC Radio 3 - WOMAD, WOMAD Live 2013, Seun Kuti and Zykopops

From WOMAD 2013: music including Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Zykopops, and Mavrika.

Lopa Kothari, Lucy Duran and Mary Ann Kennedy with music from WOMAD 2013: Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Zykopops, Mavrika, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, and Urna Chahar and Kroke.

Lopa Kothari is joined by Lucy Duran and Mary Ann Kennedy for the first of a weekend of broadcasts from the globe's leading festival of world music, live from the festival site in Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Afrobeat stars Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 headline on the Open Air stage, and on Radio 3's own stage comes Croatian turbofolk-punk band Zykopops. Plus Greek rembetika songs from Mavrika, Louisiana cajun sounds with Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, tunes from the Isle of Man from Barrule, and Poland meets Mongolia with Urna Chahar and Kroke. Plus interviews and truck sessions, starting off eight hours of live broadcasting from WOMAD.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Broadcasts of performances and recorded highlights from WOMAD 2013

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