Saturday, September 17, 2011

Freedom is freeform WFMU!

There ain't nothing like WFMU. We lightheartedly promote our radio station as the "Freeform Station of the Nation" but I do think it's appropriate. Where else can I jump on the air and play whatever I fancy this week? Program hosts are given complete freedom within FCC guidelines to go where their hearts lead them.

Tonight, my heart is being led to Barbés, a wonderful little club in Park Slope, Brooklyn that also embodies the spirit of freeform, with a leaning towards world music ensembles. Tonight at 6, I invite you to join me & Rob Weisberg for another Transpacific Sound Paradise broadcast on WFMU live from Barbes in Brooklyn. It's free admission, and being broadcast/streamed in real time, with an archive available after the fact.

On tap live: Patrick Farrell(accordion) and Ben Holmes (trumpet), who mix their adoration of East European music with the odd bit of 60s pop and other strange musical bedfellows; uproarious Balkan-punky Barcelona band Freak Fandango Orchestra, and CHIA's Dance Party, brassy spin-off of acclaimed Colombian roots band. We start the night with a listener meet-up at 5pm

Barbes is at 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn. See you there!

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