Music Planet: Road Trip

CBC's Wendy Bergfeldt takes us on a Road Trip to Cape Breton Island in Eastern Canada. Listen to the world - Music Planet, Radio 3's new world music show presented by Lopa Kothari and Kathryn Tickell, brings us the best roots-based music from across the globe - with live sessions from the biggest international names and the freshest emerging talent; classic tracks and new releases, and every week...

Istanbul-born singer Cigdem Aslan guides us through the Alevi music of Turkey

Betto Arcos takes on a virtual musical journey to Paraguay, in which we encounter vintage Paraguayan harp recordings of Félix Pérez Cardozo, the virtuosic electric bass of Paula Rodriguez and The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura.

Join us for a musical journey through Greenland – taking in Inuit singing, drunken sailor shanties and the accidental discovery of the Hawaiian guitar.

Artist manager Allie Silver reports from the Argentine capital Buenos Aires

Music journalist Betto Arcos takes us on a trip to Veracruz in Mexico.

Guitarist and throat singer Albert Kuvezin takes us to Tuva in southern Siberia.

Producer and radio host Maimouna Dembélé takes us on a road trip to Senegal

Broadcaster Ashanti Omkar from the BBC Asian Network takes us on a Road Trip around the UK to explore British Asian music

Tsapiky, Salegy and the Valiha - Odilon Ranaivoson with a Road Trip to Madagascar

Our Road Trip takes us to Festival Med in the South of Portugal where singer Sara Tavares was performing in June - her recommendations include some of the best in fado - from the historic recordings of Amalia Rodrigues to the contemporary sounds of Carminho - as well as local hip-hop artist Carlao who samples the funana bands of his parents' homeland of Cape Verde, an ancestry shared by Tavares he...

Artist and music promoter Edit Pula takes us on a road trip through Albania's rich musical heritage

DJ and broadcaster Alex Jordan reports from Kingston, Jamaica for this week's Road Trip with music ranging from classic ska and rocksteady to contemporary dancehall.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Inge Thomson takes us on a Road Trip to Shetland

This week's Road Trip takes us to Spain in the company of Max Moya, a percussion player formerly with the band Ojos de Brujo.

British-Palestinian singer Reem Kelani explores the traditional music of Palestine from before and after 1948, including 1920s singer Thourayya Kaddoura and a field recording made at the Ein al-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon.

Amanda Kauranne takes us on a road trip to Finland.

Rita Ray takes us on a journey through the music of Ghana

As excitement mounts for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, for this week's Road Trip Nataliya Myazina explores the rich culture of Russian folk and roots music.

Luisa Pineros takes us on a Road Trip to Colombia

Record producer Ivan Duran with a Road Trip to Belize

This May marks 70 years since the declaration of the State of Israel, so for this week's Road Trip, the composer and oud player Yair Dalal talks to us from his home town, the ancient port city of Jaffa, about the rich and complex musical heritage of the communities within Israel.

Giorgos Markakis reports from Athens for this week's Road Trip

We take a Roadtrip to Tokyo in the company of DJ and journalist Peter Barakan - he'll be giving us a flavour of where traditional Japanese roots music meets the alternative fringe across Japan.

Music journalist and author Silvio Essinger reports from Rio de Janeiro.