Another NEW SHOW Recommendation from Jad Abumrad! Our Common Nature
Dolly Parton's America
10/22/25
•38m
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Jad Abumrad sits down with host Ana González to talk about her new podcast, Our Common Nature, a musical journey with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. As the conversation reveals, Jad actually helped connect Ana with Yo-Yo Ma!
When the world stopped in 2020, Yo-Yo Ma started thinking about how music can reconnect people to the natural world. In this limited podcast series, Yo-Yo goes around the country to places where people have deep connections to the earth. Host Ana González joins him to uncover stories of how culture binds us to nature, from Maine to Appalachia and Hawaii. The result is a seven-episode series that fuses music, personal narratives, and local histories from across the United States.
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Jad Abumrad’s new show - Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
October 15, 2025
•37m
In a world that’s on fire, what do we do with art? Like, what can music actually do?
Today, Jad Abumrad is back with his first major project since Dolly Parton’s America.
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man is a twelve episode exploration of the life, work, and legacy of the Nigerian singer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, one of the most important musical artist of the 20th century.
Back in the 1960s and 70s, Fela invented a new style of music that was part jazz, part funk, part African polyrhythms and instrumentation. And it had resistance baked into its core.
Today, Fela has been forgotten by many. Almost erased.
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man excavates his life’s work and finds it says as much about today, this moment, as it does about the past.
Find Fela Kuti: Fear No Man on Audible and wherever you listen to podcasts.
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