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Conference of the Birds Podcast

Conference of the Birds Podcast

By: Stephen Cope
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 Welcome to the audio home page for CONFERENCE of the BIRDS, a weekly radio program/podcast featuring a heterogeneous, intra-continental mix of music, poetry, speech, and song. The birds (so to speak) are here assembled in concert/consort on a weekly basis, most weeks, for a free recital of juxtaposed, contrastive, intermingled musics, and for phases, forms, and statements of musical action, reflection, critique, recalcitrance, joy, rest, prayer, revolt, renewal or repair, revolution.....and more. Each week (most weeks), find here a new ensemble/assemblage of classical, folk, ritual, spiritual, avant-garde, experimental, popular, poetic, political, danceable sounds and songs, in various genres, forms, formats, and styles, ranging from free-jazz, flamenco, and Javanese gamelan to field recordings, folk songs, and Indian film music, to salsa, samba, disco, Raï, cha’abi and be-bop. Conference Of the Birds (COB) airs LIVE, Friday evenings, 9:00 - 12:00 midnight, Eastern USA time, on WRFI and WINO (Ithaca/Odessa), community radio for Central New York and the Finger Lakes. Broadcasting to the world on the net via www.wrfi.org and Radio Garden: https://radio.garden/listen/wrfi-ithaca-community-radio/0N0fROGD#google_vignette. Episodes are available 24/7 online. Always free, commercial free, and free of commercial, corporate, or capitalist intent.Copyright 2012 Stephen Cope. All rights reserved. Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Music
Episodes
  • Conference of the Birds, 1-30-26

    Conference of the Birds, 1-30-26
    Feb 14 2026

    THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Gulf Pop from Kuwait we. Rabab; Mohammed Hayani (vocalist from Morroco); Eritrean pop star Muluu Baqqalaa; Amy Gaciaga w. Women in Jazz; new music from Dave Adewumi; Violeta Parra (nueva canción); Barry Altschul deconstructs Monk; Ballet Folklorico de Mexico (just exactly that x 2); ; new music from Roscoe Mitchell; Ghanian highlife from Vis-a-Vis; Congolese (Zairean) vocalist M'Pongo Love; from Brazil: Tim Maia, Jair Rodrigues, Nilze Benedicto; Ana Lucia, Orlandivo, Guiga de Ogum, Zeca Pagadinho; and, as ever.....much, much, much more....

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/21904959/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    NEW MAILING ADDRESS:

    Stephen Cope @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • Conference of the Birds, 1-2-26

    Conference of the Birds, 1-2-26
    Jan 27 2026

    THIS WEEK's BIRDS: First episode of 2026 (we got a little ahead of ourselves...): Japanese bop from Sinsuke Fujieda; Albert Ayler; Nobo Hara w. Hozan Yamamoto (shakuhachi jazz); Karen Borca (bassoon imnrpov.); Andrew Hill; Mohammed Tahar Fergani (Arabo-Andlausian music); film music legend Asha Bhosle; Mostafa Sidi Ahmed from Sudan; painist/composer Eri Yamamoto w/ choir; raga from Gulabi Sapera; Turkish vocal legend Seçil Heper; Greek music from Anthoula Nousi; from much, much more....

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/21768259/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    NEW MAILING ADDRESS:

    Stephen Cope @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

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    2 hrs and 59 mins
  • Conference of the Birds, 1-16-26

    Conference of the Birds, 1-16-26
    Jan 19 2026

    THIS WEEK's BIRDS: an abbreviated episode (TWO HOURS ONLY, opps.) w/ Balkan vocalists Stefka Sabotinova & Valya Balkanska; Moroccan vocalist Houria Aîchi performing sacred music from the Aures Mountains; Malian vocalists Bako Dagnon, Lassana Tamoura, & Neba Solo w. Benogo Diakite ; Noura Mint Seymali from Mouritania; experimental bop from Roland Kirk & the Modern Jazz Quartet; Regis Huby as leader & w/ Bruno Angelini Quartet; two in the Raga Kalkani: one on Sarod (Ashoke Roy) & one vocal rendition (Rashid Khan); Ay Lazzat from Dagestan; Absaldin Magomedov (also from Dagestan); Ghalia Benali, Constantinople & Kiya Tabassian perfrom Rumi; much, much more....

    Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

    https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

    via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

    Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

    Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

    PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

    https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/21836136/Conference-of-the-Birds

    and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

    https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

    Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

    Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

    http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

    NEW MAILING ADDRESS:

    Stephen Cope @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

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    1 hr and 58 mins
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