Global Village with Chris Heim

Series produced by KMUW

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With a fresh, inventive mix of global sounds and styles and a welcoming presentation, this award-winning show speaks to the joys of musical discovery and smart entertainment with diverse and engaging world music that appeals to a broad audience. The program is FREE and available five days a week or for weekend use. A monthly world music concert series, monthly new releases show, stand-alone holiday programs, and a wide variety of regular specials are also available free to all.

**KAB AWARDS WINNER/SPECIAL PROGRAM - GLOBAL VILLAGE AT THE SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL**

BROADCAST TO DATE ON 490 STATIONS IN 46 STATES AND 190 COUNTRIES

NUMBER ONE LICENSED SERIES IN THE PRX ZEITFUNK AWARDS

KAB BROADCASTING AWARDS HONOREE - Large Market/DJ Personality

BEST WORLD MUSIC RADIO SHOW - READERS' CHOICE WORLD MUSIC AWARDS

TRANSGLOBAL WORLD MUSIC CHART MEMBER

GLOBAL VILLAGE
Global Village is an eclectic, world music-based show. It features the latest and best in world music new releases and classics along with a wide variety of artists and selections from nearly all other genres of music that incorporate influences from around the world.

Informative and entertaining, current yet set in a wider musical and historical context, the show draws on the knowledge, experience and congenial personality of host Chris Heim - and a library of over 50,000 albums, including many out-of-print titles - to pull these musical strands together into an intriguing and captivating whole.

With its broad range of artists and styles, the program works well alongside AAA, jazz, or other local and national world music, Latin, Triple AAA and other shows, including Afropop, Etown, JazzSet, World Cafe, and related local productions.

The distinctive and entertaining music mix and presentation makes the show a stand-out that attracts listeners. Its appeal to the qualities of heart, mind and spirit makes Global Village an obvious choice for the classic public radio listener, while at the same time, speaking to a younger, increasingly multicultural and genre-hopping audience. At KMUW, where the show has run since 2007, the largest audience cume is 25-34, though the show attracts across all age ranges.

• Available five days a week
• 57-minute program with two floating 1:00 breaks
• One show @ week any day, weekend or fill-in
• Specials offered throughout the year
• Show is stream-able
• SoundExchange compliant

Additional promotional support available through Facebook page (link below) with program information, videos, news, reviews, feature and resource information.

Global Village Specials:
The monthly Global Village at the Savannah Music Festival world music concert series, holiday programs (including Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Mardi Gras, World AIDS Day, Dr. King Day, Best of the Year in World Music, Hug a Medievalist Day, various international celebrations and holidays, and other special occasions, tributes, quirky holidays, and artist interviews - plus monthly features and the New Month/New Music show each month devoted exclusively to the best in world music new releases.

Producer/Host - Chris Heim
Radio and world music veteran Chris Heim began a lifelong love affair with radio after wandering into the University of Chicago campus station and being offered an unexpectedly open music slot. Her first radio job was at one of the Chicago area’s last true “free form” stations, WJKL. She later worked at WXRT Chicago’s progressive rock station, and then joined WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. There she hosted jazz and world music shows (the latter one of the first and longest running in public radio, starting just six months after the debut of Afropop) and served as Music Director. She was also executive producer and anchor for national broadcasts of the Chicago Jazz, Blues and Latin Music Festivals, and the Traffic series with Steppenwolf Theater. A freelance writer as well, Chris has written liner notes and bios, as well as features, cover stories and reviews for such publications as the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, Jazziz, Jazz Times, Blues Revue, Option, Illinois Entertainer, and more. She is also a contributor to the Transglobal World Music Chart, the NPR Jazz Critics Poll and fRoots Annual World Music Critics Poll.

For more information:
Chris Heim
heim@kmuw.org
(316) 978-7176
http://www.kmuw.org/index.php/programs/global_village/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Village/100891159962739

Global Village has been a fantastic addition to our non-com AAA format. Chris Heim has an amazing super power ability to sound like one of our own team members. The breadth and depth of its music leaves us wanting a daily four hour show. Pleeeezzzzeeee????
Chuck Miller, General Manager WNKU-FM

"Music selection and variety superbly chosen and assembled. Name your day and day part: Global Village could fit almost everywhere."
PRX Music Format Curator David Srebnik

"Global Village, hosted on KMUW in Wichita, Kansas and broadcast on stations around the world (as well as online), is one of the finest world music programs on the airwaves. DJ Chris Heim really knows her stuff, and consistently presents a fantastic hour of music, carefully curated around a theme, and peppered with exactly the right amount of chatter and useful information. To be quite honest, it's one of the only world music radio shows that this writer goes out of her way to listen to regularly, and it seems that I'm definitely not the only fan out there!"
Readers Choice World Music Awards - Best World Music Radio Show

"I like this series a lot – Chris Heim breathes new life into World Music programming with The Global Village. Like the World Café and Folk Alley, there’s never a wasted or throwaway musical moment. Reliable, consistently appealing World Music programming. Maybe this is a series worth considering for regular air play on your schedule."
PRX Music Format Curator David Srebnik, PRX Music Station Picks for January '11

"...the trifecta of good world music radio presentation: a great ear for music, a good sense for sequencing and sounds, and (perhaps most importantly) a knack for presenting real music with real information without being wonky or pedantic."
Megan Romer, About.com World Music Blog

"Global Village shows are great listening - well-paced, simply but succinctly scripted, and with an excellent choice and range of music within the broader genre of ‘world music’."
John Pilley
Music Production Manager - Radio New Zealand National

"(Chris Heim's) knowledge and understanding of music never ceases to amaze."
KMUW listener

"We love GV on KWTF! "
Don Campau
Program Director, KWTF-FM

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READERS CHOICE WORLD MUSIC AWARDS - BEST WORLD MUSIC RADIO SHOW
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In conjunction with the March Irish-American Heritage Month Feature, Global Village highlights music from Kila, an eclectic group that draws not on...

Bought by Raven Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KGOU, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 15
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SPECIAL: Global Village remembers multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire and performer David Lindley, who was born on this date, in a program devoted...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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SPECIAL: Global Village marks UN French Language Day. Each year on March 20, the United Nations celebrates the language and the many different cult...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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SPECIAL: Spring is here! Global Village welcomes the new season with a wide array of artists, styles and songs celebrating the ups (and downs) of s...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Global Village marks birthdays of guitarist Bill Frisell and steel drum player Andy Narell; highlights new music from harpist Catrin Finch and Iris...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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SPECIAL: Shakespeare taught us to beware the Ides of March, but for Global Village it’s a welcome excuse to explore music from Italy – including a ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KACU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBBI Alaska, KEOS and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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SPECIAL: This time in the Global Village we highlight a variety of styles and artists from South Africa. We’ll hear legendary vocal group Ladysmith...

Bought by KEOS, KKRN, North Country Public Radio, WNYE, KSUT and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Though we’re featuring Irish music this month, Global Village turns to another part of the world for Celtic sounds this time, as we head to Galicia...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Global Village marks the birthday of the talented but troubled Don Drummond – trombonist, composer, and founding member of the Skatalites. We also ...

Bought by WSLR, Delmarva Public Media, WNYE, WOMR, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Global Village highlights Nordic fiddles this time. We’ll hear violinists from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and music ranging from the trad...

Bought by Raven Radio, North Country Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KSFR, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 15
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SPECIAL: In conjunction with the March Irish-American Heritage Month feature, Global Village showcases music from one of the great traditional band...

Bought by WOMR, KIYU-FM, KSKA, KRDP, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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It’s New Month/New Music time in the Global Village. Each month, Global Village devotes an entire show to the best of recently released and forthco...

Bought by KIYU-FM, KRDP, KUPR low power FM, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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SPECIAL: The final Monday of every month, we present our award-winning monthly concert series showcasing live performances from top world music art...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WRGY, KSFR, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Global Village visits North Africa this time for contemporary sounds from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, and Sudan. Among the artists featured a...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 33
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SPECIAL: Some fun sounds this time in the Global Village as we highlight ‘60s and ‘70s pop and rock from Asia. We’ll hear distinctive sounds that c...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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The Global Village spotlight this time is on one of the great South African township groups, Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens. We’ll hear an early...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Another edition of Afrobeat from elsewhere this time in the Global Village, with selections from Finland’s the Blassics, Canadian bassist Rubim de ...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 33
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Global Village highlights music from Hollie Cook, daughter of the Sex Pistols drummer and a Boy George backup singer, former member of punk band th...

Bought by KSKA, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 23
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SPECIAL: In place of our usual New Month/New Music Show this time, Global Village counts down the Top Ten Show Favorites of 2023. We’ll her music f...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 32
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Global Village highlights global jazz this time. We’ll hear December Featured Artist June Tabor with an Ellington classic, a mashup of John Coltran...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KBRP Community Radio, KRZA, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 26