Concertzender starts series
on Caribbean music

Recently, the Caribbean have been all over the news due to the devastating hurricanes Irma and Maria. As it happened, Concertzender had just finished the first recording of a new programme on music from that area: Carib Calling. The programme makers take the listeners on a trip along the musical gems of the Caribbean.

In Carib Calling you will hear music from Suriname, the Caribbean and South America. The series will be hosted by Noraly Beyer, editor and host for the NOS News from 1985 to 2008, and Guilly Koster, programme maker and producer for VPRO, NPS and Human, among others.

Special guest: Lydia Emanuels

Carib Calling will be a programme featuring a ‘special guest’, who will choose the theme and the music. In the first broadcast on Friday 6 October, Noraly Beyer will welcome Lydia Emanuels. Emanuels has been working for radio from the very beginning. She started working for the Wereldomroep in 1956, for the SRS (Stichting Radio Suriname) from 1970 to 1977, and as a programme maker for the Wereldomroep again until 1985.

After she retired she was appointed Companion of the Order of Orange-Nassau. For her merits for Suriname radio, she was appointed Companion in the Honorary Order of the Yellow Star by president Ronald Venetiaan.

Carib Calling

Every first and second Friday of the month from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Concertzender

• Friday 6 October: Special Guest: Lydia Emanuels. Host: Noraly Beyer.
• Friday 13 October Special Guest: Marcel Weltak. Host: Noraly Beyer.
• Friday 03 November Special Guest: Henk van Vliet (Mister Hit). Host: Guilly Koster.
• Friday 10 November Special Guest: Robert Harman Sordam. Host: Guilly Koster.