@worldcafe.bsky.social
Bringing music discovery to nearly a million listeners on NPR stations nationwide, World Cafe is hosted by Raina Douris with contributing host Stephen Kallao and produced by WXPN in Philadelphia.
One of our longtime friends and favorites on the Cafe, Iron & Wine makes a return visit to the Cafe. He talks with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social about songs from his new album and his catalogue for an episode of Backtracking. He also performs live in concert.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98t...
Folks, Vince Gill continues to be the honest to goodness Truth. We sit down again to talk about his massive year long project to celebrate 50 years of making music. He's my favorite person to talk to, bar done. Up later today for @worldcafe.bsky.social but catch it on @wxpnfm.bsky.social at 2pm EST
Country music legend Vince Gill stockpiled more than 100 songs in the last few years, and he's releasing a new EP every month for a year. The project is called 50 Years From Home. Gill talks with the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social about the massive project.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with singer-songwriter Jobi Riccio, who performs live with her band.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdi...
Kashus Culpepper talks with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social about how he went from performing cover songs to his new full-length debut album, Act I, and with his band performs in front of a live audience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvQF...
Via our friends at KRVS in Lafayette, Louisiana, here's a mini concert with @andrinaturenne.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2026/03/02/n...
Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social welcomes Cate Le Bon and her band into the studio for a special performance and conversation about Cate's new album, Michelangelo Dying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKcJ...
We wrap up our Black History Month series with our Culture Corner contributor John Morrison and Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social with our final segment on the impact of music of the African disapora. www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...
Happy to have Soccer Mommy back on the show, this time w/ a mini concert from the @wxpnfm.bsky.social XPoNential Music Festival last September.
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Doing some @worldcafe.bsky.social stuff at The Power Station today. Dang, there were some records made here!
The legendary producer, musician and President of @bluenoterecords.bsky.social Don Was brings his new band, The Pan-Detroit Ensemble, into our studios to perform and chat with the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2026/02/20/n...
Watch @hannahjadagu.bsky.social absolutely crush her World Cafe session -> youtu.be/-MTpddYUeoo?...
With the release of her excellent new (and sophomore) album Describe, we had to have @hannahjadagu.bsky.social Hannah Jadagu return to the Cafe with her band, this time with an audience. The Cafe's contributing host @kallao.bsky.social talks with Hannah about the new lp.
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social chats with
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol from Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie about their new movie and music that defined them in a new segment, "Personal Records."
www.npr.org/2026/02/16/n...
Working on Friday's @worldcafe.bsky.social playlist for hour 2. Love this second set because Body Movin's main sample is a steel drum version of One Como Va - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXl5...
In the latest edition of "Backtracking," Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social met up with the legendary Lucinda Williams at Lu's bar and restaurant in NYC for a wide ranging conversation about her new record and highlights from her back catalogue.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NG2...
Flock of Dimes is the solo project of Jenn Wasner, a founding member of Wye Oak. Jenn and the band came into our studio at @wxpnfm.bsky.social to perform a mini session of songs from her new lp, The Life You Save. www.npr.org/2026/02/12/n...
One of the most expressive singer-songwriters of her generation, Sarah McLachlan's deeply felt and virtuosic performance is miraculous. n.pr/3M9F0rT
Thank you Jenn for playing some songs in our studio!
This is Lorelei - Nate Amos - is featured in the studio to perform and chat with Cafe contributing host @kallao.bsky.social about the Nate's collection of songs and how he draws inspiration from Cher and bluegrass.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uq8...
On our recent Sense of Place Baltimore series, Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social explores the vibrant Baltimore club music scene with Abdu Ali and DJ Ducky Dynamo.
www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...
Last Fall we welcomed Christian McBride into our studios for a performance and an interview w/ the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social. Congrats to Christian for his Grammy win. Watch the session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEi...
Big congrats to Amy Allen for winning the Grammy for
Songwriter of The Year, Non-Classical. It was great to have Amy on the show last May, talking w/ Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social about the songs Amy has written for herself and others. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1...
Our Sense of Place Baltimore series continues at the Harbor Wetland on the National Aquarium campus with electronic musician and composer Dan Deacon who talks with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
For our Sense of Place: Baltimore series, we've dug deep into our archives to 2010, when the Baltimore duo Beach House - guitarist/keyboardist Alex Scally and vocalist/organist Victoria Legrand - appeared on the Cafe when their 3rd album, Teen Dream was released. www.npr.org/2010/12/29/1...
Dan Boeckner of @wolfparade.bsky.social chats about their Heated Rivalry placement with BLEACHED bleachedistheword.com/2026/01/28/i...
Our Sense of Place: Baltimore travels have connected Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social w/ the amazing Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS). Raina talked with Patrick Staso of BROS about the volunteer-driven theater company & their creative and unconventional productions.
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
We went to Baltimore for our recent Sense of Place series. Of the stops we made, we connected with Izzy Bavis, who covers the local music Baltimore music scene on WTMD. Izzy talked with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social about some emerging bands that you need to hear.
www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...
