Celebrating our CFMA, Canadian Folk Music Award-winners for 2025 off the top. From First Light, it's Mary Frances Leahy, Young Performer Of The Year, from her debut album, First Light, New Emerging Artist of the Year, Maggie's Wake, and Traditional Singer of the Year, Lucy MacNeil. Lots more Canadian Celtic as well! Join your host Patrica Fraser for Canada's Contemporary Celtic Radio Hour, Celt In A Twist.

In the spotlight this week, The Oliver Schroer Pushing The Boundaries Award winner at the CFMAs, Kiran Ahluwalia! Plus, more boundary-pushing music from Japanese eclectic trio Kuunatic, Red Baraat, Al-Qasar and Ammar 808. And, we remember Amadou Bagayoko, the Malian guitarist who passed last week. Looking forward and back, just like Janus! It's World Beat Canada Radio.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from April 3rd to the 10th, 2025.

Our guests are DJ – President of the Black Student Union at the University of Arizona and Ky’Jah – an activist working closely with the Department of African American Student Affairs In the first half of the show, we talk about the importance of diversity initiatives, the implications of the rollbacks of DEI initiatives on college campuses around the country, and what communities impacted by recent legislation and political threats can do to push back. In the second half of the show, we take on popular criticisms of DEI programs and offer additional perspective worth considering when attacking similar initiatives. Our Way Black History Fact covers the history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Despite claims by Western media & governments, Syria's new leaders are unleashing murder and pillage against national and religious minorities.

1. Ovechkin, the Great 8, breaks Gretzky's record and remains a Russian patriot, no small accomplishment in this new world of Cold War politics. 2. A sad day for labour: The UAW & UNIFOR make no effort to find common ground to fight Trump and auto monopolists. Solidare-Not

Going really off broadway with a cheezy forgotten 70s musical experience of one of the peanuts gang, we'll also be Moogin the beatles and The Hand Man is back with some awesomely cheezified air guitar you can actually hear!

Trump's Irrational International Tariffs Will Deepen US Economic Inequality; The Trump Resistance Movement and Prospects for a Proposed General Strike; Deal to End New York Wildcat Correction Officer Strike Suspends Solitary Confinement Reform Law.

On Bob Avakian's latest social media post: REVOLUTION # 114. What do you say to people who argue that there aren't really splits among the rulers, that they're "just all the same, and all no good"? Noche Diaz and Joe Veale take on bogus B.S. from Black social media "influencers" and hustlers telling Black people to stand down, and stay out of the streets during the April 5 national "Hands Off" protests. What's Behind the U.S.–Backed Genocide in Gaza?

They spoke on April 8, 2025, when Donald Trump’s tariff’s had just collapsed the global stock markets and governments around the world were searching for a response. Yanis Varoufakis is a university teacher, author in economics and technology, and engaged in European politics. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of DiEM25, that’s Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 a left-wing pan-European political party that he co-founded in 2016. Varoufakis is being interviewed by Michael Walker, contributing editor at Novara Media. That’s an independent, non-profit media organization based in the United Kingdom. Walker brings up questions not raised by many analysts in this extraordinary crisis in April 2025 - and Varoufakis answers are equally surprising. There is a 24 minute film on YouTube that you can see for free. Search under the title Yanis Varoufakis Dissects Trump's Tariffs. And I want to express my thanks to Varoufakis and Novara Media for the use of this amazing interview DATE: April 8, 2025

A brand new program featuring all Bluegrass Gospel music with Host Danny Hensley. Roots of My Heritage celebrates the music I grew up with and still enjoy to this day. A one hour program that is broadcast live and recorded for distribution for radio stations across the globe through iTunes, RSS.com, Radio4all, Podbean and of course SoundCloud. This episode features music from Eli Nelson & Kings Highway, The Marksmen Quartet, Travis Alltop, and more. Broadcast locally in Powell, Tennessee on 91.7 FM Community Radio and streaming world wide on www.sbbradio.org

You may be surprised to learn that, according to the United Nations Environment Program, buildings and construction accounts for a stunning 37% of global greenhouse emissions. Our guest today on Sea Change Radio is an innovator working to change the equation. We are speaking with entrepreneur Josh Dorfman, the co-founder of Plantd and Supercool to learn more about the green building space. We talk about the challenges of a young company making inroads into the construction industry, take a look at his company’s innovative grass building material, and examine the competitive landscape in this area.

African Latin & Caribbean music

Anti-diversity bullies try to bury Pauli Murray’s legacy; Greece moves to ban gay men from surrogacy access, Russia declares the Elton John AIDS Foundation “undesirable”, New South Wales is cured of “conversion therapy”, Victoria hushes anti-queer hate speech, a state judge temporarily blocks Montana’s anti-trans bathroom bill, and Utah Republicans ban queer rainbow Pride flags in public schools and government buildings. Those stories and more this week when you choose “This Way Out.”

Golden oldies (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

This episode is a webinar sponsored by the Geopolitical Economy Research Group. Featuring speakers from the immediately threatened countries, it will look at Trump's expansionist designs on Canada and Greenland, his reclaiming of the Panama Canal, and his new tariffs on any country buying Venezuelan oil, among other topics. https://geopoliticaleconomy.org

The Appalachian Sunday Morning is a two hour all Gospel Music Radio program with radio station & program host Danny Hensley. The program is recorded live each Sunday morning while being broadcast on 91.7 FM Community radio and streamed world wide on www.sbbradio.org. This week, we feature music from these artists - Strings of Victory, Aaron Stutzman, Travis Alltop, Daniel Waters, Middle Cross, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, Echo Valley, Marvin & Vernell Morrow, The Marksmen Quartet, Eli Nelson & King's Highway and more. This program is uploaded to SoundCloud, RSS.com, radio4all, Podbean and iTunes to mention a few.