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Music of the World with David McBurnie - January 23, 2009 at 10:00am

Today I celebrate my 20th anniversary of broadcasting on KPFA FM in Berkeley with a special program to commemorate the inauguration of President Barack Obama.  I worked in the Silicon Valley for Obama office as a volunteer for six months.  Our office made over 500,000 phone calls to get out the vote, as well as sending door-to-door teams out to Nevada, Colorado, and South West Indian Tribal Counsels.

In the first hour, we listen to a cd that I’ve just produced with my colleagues the Center for the Divine Feminine at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.  It features the music of San Francisco Bay Area women who compose and perform spiritual and healing music. Thanks to these generous artists for letting us put their work into a new compilation called Voices of the Feminine.

In the second hour, we listen to music from the roots of President Obama.  We’ll hear sounds like he might have grown up with, from Hawaii, Indonesia, Kenya, other parts of Africa, and beyond.

I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to bring roots and traditional music to the air for the past twenty years on KPFA FM in Berkeley, KALW in San Francisco, the CBC in Toronto, KZSU Stanford University, and KKUP in Santa Clara.  I first went on the air in December of 1988.

Voices of the Feminine:

Barbara Borden / Timeless / Beauty in the Beat / Cloud 9 Music

Sophia / Charana Kamara Bundu Hari Dai / Sacred Ground / www.songhealer.com

Diana Rogers / Sri Guru Charanon / Unveiled / www.dianarogers.com

Ring (Patti Clemens & Barbara Imhoff) / State of Grace / Soul to the Pleasure / pcinpeace@cs.com

Eda Maxym / I’ve Got a Feeling / Imagination Club / Family Tree Music

Maniko / Nature of Things / House of the Beloved / Isness Records

Ann Carol MItchell / Detroit Annie Hitchhiking / Detroit Annie Hitchhiking / www.annecarol.com

Diana Stork, Portia Diwa, Shawna Spiteri / Prelude for Tara / Voice of Tara / www.myspace.com/triskelacelticharptrio

Mindia Devi Klein / Seven Gates Appear / Beyond the Reach of Time / www.indojazzmusic.com

For a copy of the compilation Voices of the Feminine listed above, please contact The Center for the Divine Feminine.  This is a special project to help fund feminist research scholarships and this cd is only available to donors to the project.  You can, however, contact each artist individually using the links above.

Roots Music of Obama:

Odetta / Oh Freedom Spiritual Trilogy / Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues / iTunes

John McCord / Black Man in the White House / unreleased / www.downhomemusic.com

Kenge Kenge / Obama for Change / single / iTunes

Bill Tapia / Stars and Stripes Forever / www.myspace.com/billtapiahawaii

John Cruz/ Island Style / Island Roots / Quiet Storm Records

Pata Pata / Minoaka (Hawaiians sing an African song to reggae beat!) / Island Roots / Quiet Storm

Sudden Rush / Polynesian Party / Island Roots / Quiet Storm Records

CBMW / SambaSunda / Indonesia / Rough Guide

Shay Black/Corrigan Bros. / No One As Irish as Barack Obama / Live at Starry Pough /YouTube

(see below for partial lyrics)

Pine Leaf Boys / Pine Leaf Boogie /Blues de Musicien / Arhoolie

Miriam Makeba / Hapo Zamani / Welela / Mercury (out of print)

Amadou & Mariam / Artists (live and unreleased) / not available

Flip / Obama is about Change / NYC hip hop artist

“There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara

There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

From the old Blarney Stone to the green Hill of Tara

There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

You don't believe it, I hear you say

Barack's as Irish as was JFK

His granddaddy’s daddy came from Moneygall

A small Irish village, known to you all.

He’s as Irish as bacon and cabbage and stew

He’s Hawaiian, Kenyan, American too

If he succeeds, and he has a chance

I’m sure our Barack will do Riverdance

From Kerry and Cork to old Donegal

Let’s hear it for Barack, from old Moneygall

From the Lakes of Killarney to old Connemara

There’s no one as Irish as Barack OBama

Tooral - U Tooral U Tooral U Toor a lama

There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama