Paradigms

Hannah Baiardi returns to Paradigms to share her new record Magic , a sumptuous feast of jazz keyboard and vocals, all original songs, that will smooth out your day. Hannah has the gift of creating songs and musical compositions that embody the path of the seeker, someone on an intentional journey of learning and experiencing the interconnectedness of everything. This episode of Paradigms is being...

Peter Yarrow is one of our better angels.  He’s been a voice of conscience, peacemaking, love and decency, for three quarters of a century!  Peter, Paul (Stookey) & Mary (Travers) gave voice to generations of children and adults around the world with music that uplifted, fed our imaginations, and always always called for us to be our better selves. Peter has been sharing music with survi...

Bart Moore has just released his second album Graveyards Wind & War a compilation of original songs. His first record is Curse of Los Lunas . Bart is a storyteller.  His songs explore real stories and offer windows into human lives and experiences, which we can learn from. Bart is from Michigan, where he lives and performs. Once a punk/grunge rocker in the San Francisco Bay area, eventually Ba...

Mike Stevens has been playing harmonica since he was a child. He’s played with world class musicians and has graced the stage of The Grand Ole Opry.  His playing is virtuoso.  The harmonica may seem a humble instrument, but Mike makes powerful music with it. Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music is a collection of original tunes, with a few familiar songs for good measure.  The band is exc...

Edith Letner , Yacouba Sissoko , and Banning Eyre , are Voyagers , a trio playing fusion music with facets of Jazz, various African, Folk, and other musical traditions. Each has achieved mastery with their instruments, and continues to learn and explore. Together they bring us Chasing Light , an album of original and traditional tunes which bring light into the space, into your mind, into the worl...

Loreena McKennitt returns to Paradigms after 4 years to talk about the 30th anniversary of her breakthrough record The Visit . Loreena is about to launch a Canadian Tour where she will be performing the album in its entirety along with colleagues Caroline Lavelle on cello, Hugh Marsh on violin, and Brian Hughes on guitar. With just one date in each province, this tour is extra special! Loreena tel...

Chris Butcher is a trombonist, recording engineer, and more, and Holly Devon is a writer artist philosopher.  Along with Sabertooth Swing band leader Romain Beauxis, and other artists, they have just released a new album Delta Bound which is a recounting and feeling-through some of the history of New Orleans. Guest artists include Sister Helen Prejean , Bruce ‘Sunpie’ Barnes , Jeffery Broussard ,...

Ezra Gale is a multi instrumentalist songwriter storyteller media fusing visionary, who has recently allowed his alter ego The Eargoggle to release a double album with accompanying comic books, one for each record in the album. The music and the comics go together and how that works is open to interpretation.  In other words, you have to experience this for yourself, listening and reading together...

Mike Mullins has been playing music since childhood. He’s played guitar on over 100 records but his true musical love is the mandolin, so he’s just released a record of just mandolin music 8-String Sketches . Reinventing familiar tunes for the mandolin, Mike takes us on a light journey. The mandolin lends itself to variations in melody and textures that are specifically mando. Mike tel...

Peter Ward ‘s new book The Price of Immortality The Race to Live Forever examines the quest for immortality by meeting “The Immortalists” and learning about their ideas and their methods; what’s working? The prolongation of life has been desired by humans for thousands of years, going back to ancient religions and practices, coming forward through time to the alchemists of...

“Giuseppe Paradiso is a drummer, recording artist and composer active both as a bandleader of MERIDIAN 71, a world-jazz music project based in Boston,  as well as a freelance recording and live musician across different music genres.” – Giuseppe-Paradiso.com Giuseppe and Meridian 71 have a new record out Parallel Dimensions which explores questions of physics and consciousness. J...

Jason Tamba was born and raised in Congo.  In his early 20’s he moved to South Africa and played withe the band Afro Fiesta. He now lives in the US and has just released his second solo album Don’t Give Up , a collection of story songs with a theme of perseverance. Jason has been playing guitar since he was a small child when he made his first guitar. Now his playing is influenced by A...

Rupert Wates has released a new album For the People , new songs written mostly in the first person, based on old English folk tales. Rupert records his albums in one take, playing the whole thing straight through and then turning that into a CD.  This way we, the listeners, get to hear a “live show” coming straight from the artist’s creativity. He plays guitar unaccompanied, exc...

Mamak Khadem has released her fourth album Remembrance which is a collection of Persian poetry set to music.  The poems/songs speak to loss, love, and continuity.  The music is beautiful, emotional, and beautifully performed. Mamak is from Iran but has lived in the US since she was a teenager.  While loving her culture Mamak would not be safe if she returned to Iran because of politics.  She is on...

Emma G is a musician, songwriter, author and youth empowerment coach .  Now living in the US, Emma was born and raised in New Zealand where, among other things, she was lead singer for Auckland rockers Static Era . Her personal story is one of triumph over medical and societal adversity, very inspiring. The conversation with Emma starts with some of her personal story, musical inspirations, and he...

David Barritt is a former journalist who has worked in animal welfare for 23 years. He established the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW) South African office before becoming IFAW’s Africa Director. After a break running a successful public relations company, he joined Network for Animals in 2014. He became Executive Director of NFA and its sister organization Animal Survival Internati...

Haji Mike is a self described Dub Poet, Radio Presenter, DJ, Writer, and Doctor of Philosophy.  Born in Marathovounbo, Cyprus and then raised in London, England, Haji Mike has traveled extensively, touring his own dub-hip hop-acid funk-dance and world music. He now lives on Cyprus. Haji Mike is one of the creators of the album Sharka , with Chaka Chouka bandmates Bernard O’Neill , Simon Webs...

Dr.  Ken Friedman, Ph. D . is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ. Dr. David Maughan, Ph. D. is a Research Professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT. who has been on Paradigms before. Drs. Friedman and Maughan describe how ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) has...

Jake Dailey has started Rake Force , “ Mobile response team for biomass reclamation and carbon negative conservation services. We use regenerative and permaculture strategies to restore ecosystems and individuals.” – rakeforce.us Jake describes how Rake Force works with goats to reduce flammable biomass in the forest.  Jake explains how the principles of Permaculture are served t...

Heather Sarona has released Head Above Water , 9 tracks of original music, her first full album. The songs are all very personal, examining relationship as it ends, as it begins, as it endures, perfect for Valentine’s Day! Heather is one of those people who started playing music very early in life, and for whom music has always been a thread throughout their life.  We get into that in the in...

Small Island, Big Song is a multimedia project spanning continents, involving dozens of indigenous people from the region, celebrating the Pacific and Indian Oceans and raising awareness as to the peril Earth’s oceans currently face from pollution, and the effects from the changing climate. The human world has become increasingly mechanized and specialized.  The view of the oceans as places...

Day Schildkret is known for his creative exploration Morning Altars . Day has a new book out Hello, Goodbye – 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change . Day describes it as a “cookbook” for making rituals to return to one’s self as one navigates the meaningful events of one’s life. Day and Baruch talk about the book, what’s in it, and what it has to...

Simon Webster has been playing music since he was a child, first the violin, then, as a teenager, he discovered drums, and that was that. Simon has played with World Music artists and traveled the world, studying local percussion styles as he travels. He has lived in Morocco, France, and the UK. In 2020 Simon released the album Threads , a collection of songs recorded over the previous few years....

The Terry Family Band – Jim, Graham and Clark , have released a record Hometown Tragedies ; a dozen songs about painful personal, national and human tragedies, that are surprisingly uplifting. The Terry Family resides in Napa, California, where they have been known as part of the local music scene for decades.  This, though, is their first record. Jim has “come into his own” as a...

Bernard O’Neill returns to Paradigms to share a new collaboration, Sharka with Chaka Chouka ( Simon Webster , Haji Mike and Mouna Eddrou ), a collection of Mediterranean rhythms and powerful poetry.  This project was created during lockdown, and reflects very much the events of our times. The album happened by accident, with Simon creating rhythm tracks which he shared with Bernard who share...