Deirdre Saravia

World Music Celebrations: Cheese Rolling

Deirdre Saravia — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:32:50 +0000

Each week on World Music (Saturday nights from 8-10 on KSTX 89.1 FM), I take a look at celebrations happening around the world. This week, a cheesy festival in England.

COOPER'S HILL CHEESE ROLLING

Lyric Romanticism On Asgeir Trausti's "In The Silence"

Deirdre Saravia — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:01:54 +0000

Ásgeir Trausti hoped to be a professional track and field athlete but his plans were detailed by various sporting injuries. He became a professional musician instead and quickly rose to to top of the Icelandic music scene.

All the words to his songs are composed by his 72-year-old father and are filled with lyric romanticism.

His first album, "Dyrd I Daudathogn," (In The Silence) is sung completely in Icelandic, he hopes to reach a broader audience with an all English version of the album currently in the works.

World Music Celebrations: Moroccan Rose Festival

Deirdre Saravia — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:59:31 +0000

Each week on World Music (Saturday nights from 8-10 on KSTX 89.1 FM), I take a look at celebrations happening around the world. This week, a fragrant festival in Morocco.

ROSE FESTIVAL

Carla Bruni's "Little French Songs"

Deirdre Saravia — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:22:39 +0000

"I got used to notoriety early," said Carla Bruni in an interview with the British newspaper, The Telegraph. So there's nothing holding her back as she sings little songs about her former life, and romantic entanglement with a very famous pop star of the sixties.

World Music Celebrations: Rockets For Easter, Snakes In Italy

Deirdre Saravia — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:40:35 +0000

Each week on World Music (Saturday nights from 8-10 on KSTX 89.1 FM), I take a look at celebrations happening around the world. This week, rockets blaze for the risen Christ in Greece, and Indiana Jones would never want to find himself in Abruzzo next week. Snakes!

LA FESTA DEI SERPARI

World Music Celebrations: Miao Girls Festival

Deirdre Saravia — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:07:35 +0000

Each week on World Music (Saturday nights from 8-10 on KSTX 89.1 FM), I take a look at celebrations happening around the world. This week, learn about the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day.

SISTERS MEAL FESTIVAL

Get Friendly With Los Amigos Invisibles "Repeat After Me"

Deirdre Saravia — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:19:09 +0000

In the early 1990s in Venezuela, a group of young musicians decided to compose and play music unlike any thing they heard in the clubs of Caracas.

Los Amigos' style is described as disco/funk and is definitely dance music. Amazingly, the original line up is unchanged over their twenty years of playing together.

The Violin "a la Francaise" With Maria Bachmann

Deirdre Saravia — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:24:20 +0000

Maria Bachmann's latest CD, "French Fantasy," featuring pianist Adam Nieman, pays tribute to those lyrical and dramatic French composers Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens, and Cesar Franck, whose sonata she considers the "heart" of her latest album.

World Music Celebrations: Angola Prison Rodeo

Deirdre Saravia — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:05:23 +0000

Each week on World Music (Saturday nights from 8-10 on KSTX 89.1 FM), I take a look at celebrations happening around the world. This week, learn about the original gated community.

ANGOLA PRISON RODEO

World Music Celebrations: An Arid Desert Race, A Soaking New Year

Deirdre Saravia — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:03:03 +0000

Each week on World Music (Saturday nights from 8-10 on KSTX 89.1 FM), I take a look at celebrations happening around the world. This week, you can run for miles in the sun, or then get doused with water for the Cambodian New Year!

MARATHON DES SABLES