Afropop Classic
![Plenty Bacchanal: Carnival in Flux](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic February 28, 2019
![globalFEST 2019 at the Copacabana](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic February 21, 2019
![Time Travel Through Afro-Paris](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic January 24, 2019
Paris has been one of the most important incubators of African music on the planet. On this program, we look back on 30 years of adventures with African music in Paris.
![New York City’s globalFEST 2017](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic January 3, 2019
![Stocking Stuffers 2018](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic December 6, 2018
A round-up of some of our favorite 2018 releases.
![The Best of Afropop Closeup Season 3](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic November 29, 2018
![Sounds Like Brooklyn](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic November 8, 2018
![Africa in Matanzas, Cuba: El Almacén is Walking](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic October 4, 2018
![The Festival In Fes: World Sacred Music Festival, Revisited](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic August 16, 2018
This spring, Afropop returned to Fes, Morocco, for the 23rd annual World Sacred Music Festival, a sumptuous spread of music from across the globe that blurs the boundaries of what is sacred.
![Brazil at a Crossroads](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic August 9, 2018
![African Music at the Crossroads](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic June 7, 2018
![All That Brass](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic May 31, 2018
![Afropop Divas - Live](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic May 17, 2018
![Cooking with Georges Revisited](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic April 19, 2018
![Highlights From Afropop Closeup: Season Two](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic February 22, 2018
![Afropop at 30: Live in the '90s](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic January 25, 2018
As Afropop turns 30, we take a stroll down memory lane to enjoy some of the extraordinary live recordings we brought to the public radio community in the 1990s including Thione Seck in Dakar, Gerardo Nunez in New York, Abdel Aziz el Mubarak in London, Lobi Traore in Bamako, a carnival comparsa in Cuba and David Rudder in New York. Co-hosted by Georges Collinet, Siji Awoyinka, and Sean Barlow.
![Santo Domingo Blues: The Story of Bachata](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic January 4, 2018
Alex Wolfe, director of the film "Santo Domingo Blues: The Story of Bachata" brings us live ambience and stories of bachata stars Luis Vargas, Antony Santos, Luis Segura, Adridia Ventura.
![The (New) Sound Of Afro Paris](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic December 21, 2017
In this program, we explore the new "Afropolitan" sounds of Paris, from concert halls to studios, from the heart of the city to immigrant neighborhoods in the banlieues.
![Stocking Stuffers 2017](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic December 7, 2017
It's time once again for Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre to spin through our favorite African and African diaspora releases of the year.
![Cuts from the Crypt III](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic November 30, 2017
Back in the day, host Georges Collinet and producer Sean Barlow (A.K.A. Prince Segue Segue) dragged stacks of vinyl all over the country to deejay for station-produced Afropop Dance Parties. We'll dig into the past to retrieve some of our favorite gems from the Congo, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Brazil and Cote d'Ivoire.
![A Brief History of Funk](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic November 23, 2017
Funk is a perennial favorite. In this panoramic history of the grooviest of genres, we hear track after track of absolute boogie-down classics.
![Afropop Live! 2017](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic November 16, 2017
Here’s Afropop’s annual roundup of great live recordings we’ve captured over the past year but haven't found time to air.
![Africa In America 2013](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic September 26, 2017
![San Francisco: Afropop By the Bay](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic September 21, 2017
![Fania Records At 50](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic September 14, 2017
![Podcast Special: Closeup #1](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Afropop Classic September 7, 2017