There’s music for big bands from Brazil’s Bixiga70, from Benin’s Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo, and Sweden's Langendorf United, as well as Iraqi-American Amir ElSaffar and his Rivers of Sound.

New York-based band Jarana Beat, led by Sinuhé Padilla-Isunza, draws from Mexican folk and Afro-Indigenous music. They play some of these cross-cultural celebratory sounds, in-studio.

Guitarist, pianist, & composer Ralph Towner was a co-founder of the chamber-folk group Oregon and an original member of the Paul Winter Consort. We offer this tribute to his work. 

Composer and performer Molly Joyce takes us on a journey through her 2025 record 'State Change', for voice and adaptive technology, which uses her own surgical records as musical lyrics.

Hear works that blend modern and medieval from American composers Kate Soper, Majel Connery, and Lisel, along with music from Irish soprano Caitriona O’Leary and her band Anakronos.

From New Sounds Live, the poet, musician, and activist Moor Mother and collaborators premiere new music fusing spoken word, tap, jazz, and ghost songs, from Kaufman Music Center.

Hear songs rooted in folk music, with art song or classical connections from Rhiannon Giddens and an adapted opera aria; the folk collective Spell Songs; and Irish band The Gloaming.

Hear music from London-based South Asian clarinetist Arun Ghosh, to Finnish electro-jazzers RinneRadio and New York-based Anat Cohen; plus Portuguese Jewish klezmer band Melech Mechaya.

The California-based songwriter Cinder Well weaves together traditional folk of Ireland, ambient drone, and doom metal's space in one dark and trancey tapestry. She plays in-studio.