A popular world music show produced in San Francisco can now be heard on WIUJ, 102.9 FM from 5 to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
Each week, the Putumayo World Music Hour presents a thematically organized show featuring music from around the world, such as Sunday's "Superstars" show, with a grab-bag of cross-cultural efforts by the likes of David Byrne and Selena, Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, even Jimmy Page and Robert Plant with the Egyptian percussionist Hossam Ramzy.
Station Managing Director Leo Moron said, "this is part of our work to improve programming at WIUJ-FM."
The show is produced by San Francisco radio station KFOG and hosted by KFOG's Rosalie Howarth and Putumayo music label founder Dan Storper.
Storper, who owns the Putumayo ethnic-inspired clothing boutiques, said he came up with the idea for the label when boutique patrons started asking for the music he was playing in his stores. In 1997, Billboard magazine named Putumayo the No. 1 independent world music label of the year.
The show was launched in 1999 and is now heard in more than 70 markets. Its playlist goes beyond the Putumayo label catalog to touch on such luminaries as Celia Cruz, The Chieftains, Bob Marley, the late Pakistani master of qawwali singing Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Buena Vista Social Club artists and less-well-known musicians such as the BVI's Quito Rymer.
For more information on Putumayo go to www.putumayo.com. For information on WIUJ-FM call Steve Bornn at 777-5177 or Moron at 777-9485.