Martin Cradick is the founder of Global Music Exchange, an organization that records endangered music and brings royalties back to the musician communities, and so much more.

Martin shares stories of his experience, going back decades, visiting the Baka people in the forest of Cameroon, playing music with them, bringing tribe’s people to England…fascinating heartwarming accounts of human connection through music.

For the Baka, music is an important part of life.  The music they play is the ancestral music of humanity.  You’ll feel it when you hear it.

Music by: Outback, Baka Beyond,  Baka Gbiné, and Martin Cradick and the Baka of Gbiné.

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Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton Architect,  Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, Visiting Professor of Architecture at Parsons School of Art and Design, and more. Dr. Sutton has just published a book When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story About Race In America’s Cities And Universities about the student uprising that occurred at Columbia University’s School of Architecture in 1968 and in the changes regarding race  within the Ivy League/7 Sisters educational establishment.. The book is completely relevant to what’s happening in the US in 2018 regarding race relations, racism, and where we want to go as a society. Dr. Sutton is fascinating to listen to, and her stories are all quite unexpected. Dr. Sutton’s new book is e\riveting, and relevant today because of the inspired social change the book documents, which is so needed today.

Music by: Simone Daclon Trio, The Mitchell Ruff Duo, Aretha Franklin, Sly & The Family Stone, Isaac Hayes, and Soul Science Lab.

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Opium Moon is a sensual and groovy collaboration of master musicians Lili Haydn on Violin/Voice, Hamid Saeidi on Santoor (Persian hammered dulcimer), MB Gordy on ancient percussion, and Itai Disraeli on fretless bass. We come from the corners of the world—Israel, Iran, and the US—making peace through harmony. Lili and Itai join Baruch for a spirited discussion, and we’ll hear tracks from the new CD Opium Moon.

Music by: Lili Haydn, Maetar, and Opium Moon.

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Amy Littlefield and Tina Vasquez of Rewire.News have written an article about what is happening to detained immigrant children in the United States, with a focus on the activities of Bethany Christian Services, the country’s largest adoption agency, which has a record of coercive adoptions and has contracted with the Office of Refugee Resettlement to handle the fostering/adopting of migrant children who have been forcibly separated from their parents. Baruch talks with Tina and Amy about what they’ve learned.

Music by: Duende Libre, Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt, Moira Smiley, Joan Baez EmmyLou Harris and Jackson Browne, Los Tigres del Norte, and Gaia Consort.

• Bethany Christian Services Is Fostering Migrant Kids. It Also Has a History of Coercive Adoptions

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The 10th International Body Music Festival will be in Dzodze, Ghana July 6 – 16, 2018.

Keith Terry Founder and Artistic Director, and Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo Co-Artistic Director of the 10th International Body Music Festival, join Baruch to discuss the festival, body music, healing, and more.

Also on the program, Tupac Mantilla, Founder of Percuaction, a non-profit that uses percussion as a medium for working with at-risk youth, and to build community, shares about the organization, and the Lifetime Achievement Award they will be presenting to Keith Terry at the festival.

Music by: Body Music Festival, Sweet Honey in The Rock, Jill Trinka, John Dee Holeman, Doug & Frank Quimby & Georgia Sea Island Singers, Bonnie Raitt, Juanito Pascual, and Gen Dos.

• Nunya Music Academy

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