The oldest instrument ever discovered was a 35,000 year old flute.

That was 25,000 years before agriculture, before cities, before the idea of nations,...

Yesterday, to celebrate the Winter Solstice, I produced a pan global musical event live on New York City radio.

We had players from Indigenous Colombia traditions, Turkish Ney, West African Fula, Indian Bansuri, Japanese Shakuhachi and more.

In this podcast we'll hear the set from the great Tom Chess performing on Oud  and Ney.  Dan Kurfirst provides amazing accompaniment on frame drum, calabash and various percussion.

In later episodes we'll hear from the other musicians who partipated  Eric Fraser, KenYa Kawaguchi, Michael Gam, Sylvain Leroux, Sebastián López Laura María Calderón, Robert Puesaquiyo , Kevin Nathaniel Hylton, Neel Murgai...