The playlist reads:

• Artists, "Name of Track", Album Title, (Label & Date),[Country/Genre]

• Soledad Bravo, "Punto Margariteno", Chants du Vénézuela (Buda Records) [Venezuela]
  
• Claudia, "Gasisi Nana", Xquenda (Milan Entertainment 97) [Oaxaca, Mexico]
  
• Clara Nunes, "Nalinha do Mar with Nana Caymmi", ComVida (Hemisphere 95) [Brazil]
  
• Paulo Bellinati (guitar) & Monica Salmaso (vocal), "Lamento de Exú", Afro-Sambas by Baden Powel & Vinicius de Moraes (GSP Recordings 97) [Brazil]
  
• Various Artists, "La Zarza--Ima Galguen--Spain", Women of Spirit (Putamayo 80) [Various countries]
  
• Various Artists, "Nana a lullaby sung by a girl from the capital of Murcia", Anthology of Spanish Folklore Vol. 1 (Everest Records, vinyl) [Spain]
  
• Benito Merlino, "La Ballata di Don Giovanni", Chants de Sicile & Des Iles Éoliennes (Buda Records) [Sicily]
  

• Frederic Paris--accordéon diatonique, "Air--La Belle en Page--Vert Printemps--vocal Eveline Paris", Rue de L'oiseau (AMTA, vinyl) [France]
  
• Perlinpin, "La Batalhad'achós", Al Brule (Auvidis, vinyl) [France]
  
• Agnes Buen Garnås & Jan Garbarek, "Signe Lita", Rosensfole--Medieval Songs from Norway (ECM 89) [Norway]
  
• Hedningarna, "Skamgreppet", Kaksi! (Northside 98) [Sweden/Finland]
  
• Loituma, "Kolme Kaunista--3 Things of Beauty", Things of Beauty (NorthSide 95) [Finland]
  
• Niklas Roswall with Jens Engelbrecht, Ola Hertzberg, & Markus Svensson, "Polska e. Smultrongärds", Niklas Roswall (Tongang 97) [Sweden]
  
• Hallvard T. Bjorgum & Torleiv H. Bjørgum, "Skjoldsmøyslaget --Torleiv on munnharpe", Fire of the Amazons (Sylvarton) [Norway]
  
• Kirsten Bråten-Berg, Soho Cissokho, Kouame Sereba, Bjørgluv Straume, "Sordølen/Kody Nadioulo", Frå Senegal til Setesdal (Grappa 97) [Norway/Senegal]
  

• Bajourou--Lafi Diabata (vocal), Jalimadi Tounkara & Bouba Sacko (guitars), "I Ka Di Nye", Big String Theory (Globe Style) [Mali]
  
• D'Gary, "Antsary Helo", Malagasy Guitar--Music from Madagascar (Shanachie 92) [Madagascar]
  
• Fantahun Shewankochew/Ejigayehu <> Shibabaw and Wores G. Egziabher , "Fikre Endeneh", Ethiopie:Chants d'amour (AuVidis 97) [Ethiopia]
  
• Various Artists, "Maskal Song", Ethiopia--Polyphony of the Dorze (Le Chant du Monde) [Ethiopia]
  
• Fantcha, "Fidijos Adào e eva", Criolinha (Tinder Records) [Cape Verde]
  

• Toraia Orchestra of Algiers, "Ah detli Warda", Ya Bay! (Tradition 1997) [Algieria]
  
• Selim Seliman (Musical director & lead vocalist) with group of 12 men, "Fi Solam Al Taeira", The Music of Islam Vol. 2--Music of the South Sinai Bedouins (Celestial Harmonies 98) [Egypt]
  
• Yusuf Bilgin, Fevzi Misir, Aziz Bahriyeli, Kudsi Erguner and Ensemble, "Ol Lezzeti Venhale--Yusuf Bilgin (vocal)", Gazel: Classical Sufi Music of the Ottoman Empire (CMP Records) [Turkey]
  
• Kudsi Erguner Ensemble, "Ussak Ney Taksim", Tatyos Efendi (Traditional Crossroads 96) [Turkey]
  
• Various Artists--collected & edited by Wolf Dietrich, "Saray Yollan--Hansan Durkun (vocal & saz)", Folk Music of Turkey (Topic 94 (orig. 1966)) [Turkey]
  
• Various Artists, "Pátima--Band from Lemnos", Songs of Thasos, Lemnos & Samothrace (Society for the Dissemination of National Music, vinyl) [Greece]
  
• Various Artists, "Lóntzia", Songs of Western Macedonia (Society for the Dissemination of National Music, vinyl) [Greece]
  
• Various Artists, "Valle Kolnjarçe--Feim Feizo & Riza Muhaxhiri", Folk Music of Albania collected by A. L. Lloyd (Topic Records--1964 on c.d. in 94) [Albania]
  
• Various Artists, "3 Kolos from Slavonija--Jerry Grcevich", Unblocked--Music of Eastern Europe--The Balkans (Ellipsis Arts 97) [Eastern Europe]
  

• Taraf de Haidouks, "Geamparale", Honourable Brigands, Magic Horses and Evil Eye--Musique des Tsiganes de Roumanie-Vol. 2 (Cram World 94) [Romania]
  
• Various Artists, "Soven Tschawe Soven--Valeri Buchacova & Ensemble Horvathovci", L'Épopée Tzigane (Road of the Gypsies) (Network 97) [Gypsy]
  
• Mihály Halmágyi & Gizella Adám, "Slow and Swift Hungarian Dance", Gyimesi Népzene-Hungarian Folk Music from Transylvania (Hungarton 88) [Romania]
  
• Various Artists--Classic Recordings from 1927-50, "Czerwienianska--Jan Krzysiak", Fire in the Mountains--Polish Mountain Fiddle Music Vol. 2--The Great Highland Bands (Yazoo/Shanachie 97) [Poland]
  

• Munadjat Yulchieva & Ensemble Shavkat Mirzaev, "Laly Yaman", A Haunting Voice (World Network 97) [Uzbekistan]
  
• Ca Hue et Nhac Cungdinh--Ensemble De Musique Traditionnelle de Hue, "Chàu Van", Viet Nam--Musiques de Hue (AuVidis 96) [Viet Nam]
  
• Various Artists, "The Lute Player by the Hearth (#3)--Bendaly Layul", Utom:Summoning the Spirit (Ryko 97) [Phillipines]
  

• Fred McDowell, "Levee Camp Blues", Levee Camp Blues (Testament Records 88) [U.S.]
  
• Odetta, "Gallows Tree (Gallows Pole)", At the Gate of Horn (Tradition (Orig. 57) 97) [U.S.]
  

Odetta will be in concert May 16 at the Pacific Cultural Center in Santa Cruz.

• Sweet Honey in the Rock, "Sitting on Top of The World", Selections 1976-88 (Flying Fish 97) [U.S.]
  

Sweet Honey in the Rock will be in concert at the Santa Cruz Civic on May 3.

• Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham, & Christian LeMaître, "Hector the Hero", Celtic Fiddle Festival/Encore (Green Linnet 98) [Ireland, Scotland, Brittany]
  
• Hamish Moore, "Blue Bonnets/Larach Alasdair/Margaret MacLachlan (jigs)", Stepping on the Bridge (Greentrax 94) [Scotland]
  

I am off the Mendocino next week to a dance camp. I leave the show in the very capable hands of Orin Hutchinson. My thank yous to him in advance.