With Rosalie Howarth and Dan Storper
Wednesdays, Noon to 1 p.m. / Sundays, 2 to 3 p.m.
Dan Storper
Rosalie Howarth
A special message from Rosalie Howarth:
The Putumayo World Music Hour is an internationally syndicated radio show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures, now heard internationally on more than 170 commercial and non-commercial stations around the world.
Playlists include well-known names like Bob Marley, Sting, Loreena McKennitt, and Santana, along with exceptional, underexposed international artists. The one-hour radio program also features interviews with world-class music makers such as Los Lobos, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal.
- About Rosalie Howarth
Rosalie Howarth is a syndicated radio personality host based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She hosts two popular KFOG radio shows, Acoustic Sunrise and Acoustic Sunset, as well as the internationally-syndicated Putumayo World Music Hour.
Howarth joined KFOG in the mid-1980s as a weekend DJ and added numerous other responsibilities over time, including programming Acoustic Sunrise. She also serves as director of special programming, producing Live From the Archives each week, drawing on the extensive collection of live KFOG concert recordings.
About Dan Storper
As Putumayo’s CEO and Founder, Storper fell in love with world music in 1991 when he happened upon a live concert of Kotoja, an African band from the San Francisco Bay area. He knew he had to get involved with this compelling music and put together Putumayo’s first two world music collections in 1993. Dan was joined by his long-time friend Michael Kraus, who helped him launch the label and continues to work closely with Dan and the company.
After selling the Putumayo stores in 1997, Storper was able to focus fulltime on his goal of introducing people to other cultures through great world music. He now travels extensively and pays attention to and often researches the music scenes in Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, Cape Town and other music centers.
