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My first appearance on WORT was on March 20th, 1986. I was a replacement for Maggie Steele on the Thursday edition of On The Horizon. Back then, world music aired Monday through Friday from 10:30 to Noon as one show with different daily hosts.
In October of 1986, WORT changed its morning format from a split 90 minutes of folk music / 90 minutes of international music to a single three hour music show airing from 9 am to Noon. The 90 minutes of Thursday's Wild Hog in the Woods Radio Show, hosted by Ken Rineer, was added to my programming time. My first three hour program, O's Own Folk, aired on October 9th, 1986. I changed the name to Diaspora on April 13th, 1995.
Time sure flies. In 1986, it was a struggle to find any international music. There was no world wide web. There was no Songlines or Global Rhythm Music magazines to help me locate good music. Compact disks were almost 10 years in the future. My entire show was played from 12" vinyl records and the occasional 45 or 78. Now there is a cornucopia of wonderful music just a few mouse clicks away.
My first WORT playlist:
