Conference of the Birds Podcast

About Conference of the Birds Podcast

Welcome to the audio home page for CONFERENCE of the BIRDS, a weekly radio program/podcast featuring a heterogeneous, intra-continental mix of music, poetry, speech, and song. The birds (so to speak) are here assembled in concert/consort on a weekly basis, most weeks, for a free recital of juxtaposed, contrastive, intermingled musics, and for phases, forms, and statements of musical action, reflection, critique, recalcitrance, joy, rest, prayer, revolt, renewal or repair, revolution.....and more. Each week (most weeks), find here a new ensemble/assemblage of classical, folk, ritual, spiritual, avant-garde, experimental, popular, poetic, political, danceable sounds and songs, in various genres, forms, formats, and styles, ranging from free-jazz, flamenco, and Javanese gamelan to field recordings, folk songs, and Indian film music, to salsa, samba, disco, Raï, cha’abi and be-bop. Conference Of the Birds (COB) airs LIVE, Friday evenings, 9:00 - 12:00 midnight, Eastern USA time, on WRFI and WINO (Ithaca/Odessa), community radio for Central New York and the Finger Lakes. Broadcasting to the world on the net via www.wrfi.org and Radio Garden: https://radio.garden/listen/wrfi-ithaca-community-radio/0N0fROGD#google_vignette. Episodes are available 24/7 online. Always free, commercial free, and free of commercial, corporate, or capitalist intent.

Publisher

Stephen Cope

Category

arts · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Aug 2023

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

91 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Conference of the Birds, 6-19-26

   THIS WEEK's BIRDS:  Anotherr unpublished, unplayed program, from June... New music from Laura Camacho Tango Project; Ize Trio; Henry Thresadgill; Balkan clarinet player Levar Bariu; Yetemwork Mulat (bagana & vocal) from Ethiopia; Kankani music from South India (Umesh Kamath V, Prakash B. Kamath, et al,.), Javanbese pop from Waldjinah;l North Indian vocal music from Ashwini Bhide Deshpande; from Sudan,  Dur-Dur Band Int. & Hadi Salia;  vintage LA all-star jazz players (The Gathering);  and of course: so much, much, much more.. Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI & WINO 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22603689/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR NEW MAILING ADDRESS: Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Conference of the Birds, 6-12-26

   THIS WEEK's BIRDS:  Back from a Summer off... w/ an unpublished, unposted episode from June. New music from The Avant-garde Flamenco Trio; vintage Ghanian highlife from Yebeye Bi Band; Pakistani ghazal legend Abida Parveen; Arabo-Andalusian song from Simon Tahar;  new music from Yuma Uesaka & Marilyn Crispell; new music from Matt Lavelle and the 12 Houses; vintage Albert Manglesdorf project Similado; from Zanzibar: Bi Kidude w.Sahib El Arry; raga from Balachandar; Lebanese pop star George Wassouf; Cheb Nasro (Algerian raï); from Macedonia: Yîldîz Ibrahimova & Ivo Papazov ; Greek vocalist Efi Sarri; and of course: so much, much, much more.. Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI & WINO 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22569997/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR NEW MAILING ADDRESS: Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

3. 

   12 Jul 2026

   Conference of the Birds, 6-5-26

   THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Bebe Manga from Camaroun);   also from Camaroun: Eboa Lottin;  Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford (piano duo)           David Murray w. Octet;   Sonny Rollins x 2 (RIP);  from Albania: Fitnete Rejae, Dervish Shaqja;   recent late/post-bop Walter Smith III, also from  Kenny Barron;    vocalist Alicia Lázaro;   Japanese vocalist Meiko Kaji;    Moroccan band Khmissa;    from Mali: vocalist Naïny Diabaté;    vocalist Kaniba Oulé Kouyaté & hunting music from Senoufo Tagoua;    Joe Henderson (w. Chick Corea, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins;    from Tunisia: Cheikh El Afrite;    also from Tunisia: Hedi Kalal (vocalist, composer, bandleader) & Ali Riahi (vocalist aka. the Tunisian nightingale);    from Cuba: Caridad Hierrezuelo;     new music from Bobby Matos Heritage Ensemble;      Judeo-Arabo-Andalusian song from Alice Fitoussi;      Ammouri M'barek (Amazigh); & of course: so much, much, much more.. Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI & WINO 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/22536268/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks Find WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR NEW MAILING ADDRESS: Stephen Cope  @ Conference of the Birds, POBOX 428, Tivoli, NY, 12583, USA.

Who has been a guest on Conference of the Birds Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Hasan al-Ajami
• Maya al Khaldi
• Albert Ayler
• Sara Serpa
• Oum Koulsum

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85