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Tapestry of the Times - episode #6

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Length: 00:59:00

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Newlostcityramblers_small In episode #6 of Tapestry of the Times: French Carpenter plays the fiddle tune that won his grandfather's release from a Civil War prison camp, Texas Gladden sings of a mother's spectral encounter with the ghosts of her children, Hatian Vodou practitioners sing a funerary song to release the spirits of the dead, Indonesian pop sensation Rhoma Irama makes the teenagers of Jakarta go crazy, and folk legend Josh White lets us all know what he thinks of his landlord... Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. (Like all Tapestry of the Times material, this program can be licensed for free.)

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In episode #6 of Tapestry of the Times: French Carpenter plays the fiddle tune that won his grandfather's release from a Civil War prison camp, Texas Gladden sings of a mother's spectral encounter with the ghosts of her children, Hatian Vodou practitioners sing a funerary song to release the spirits of the dead, Indonesian pop sensation Rhoma Irama makes the teenagers of Jakarta go crazy, and folk legend Josh White lets us all know what he thinks of his landlord... Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds. (Like all Tapestry of the Times material, this program can be licensed for free.)

Broadcast History

Tapestry of the Times airs Saturday nights at 8 o'clock on WYPR in Baltimore.

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http://www.tapestryofthetimes.org