Roots N All
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Roots N All is the blues
and roots
music program on national Australia
n youth broadcaster Triple J
. It is broadcast on Thursday nights between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. It started out as a 2 hour program starting at 11pm, but since 2006 has been expanded into a 3 hour show starting at 10pm.
Roots 'N All reflects the contemporary roots music scene worldwide. The show features local and overseas musicians from genres as diverse as Blues, Folk, Jazz, Country, Soul, Reggae and World.
Roots N All began hosted by Jordie Kilby began as a replacement for popular program The J Files in 2004. Jordie then left to go overseas in 2005, so Australian songwriter
and guitarist Jeff Lang
temporarily hosted.
In late 2005 blues musician Ash Grunwald
took over hosting duties. In events that Ash Grunwald has gigs that effect presenting Roots N All, Sarah Howells will usually fill-in. On 21 December 2006 Ash presented his last show of Roots N All and finished his role as a Triple J presenter.
Roots N All returned on 11 January 2007, with Sarah Howells as the permanent presenter.
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and roots
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
music program on national Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n youth broadcaster Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
. It is broadcast on Thursday nights between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. It started out as a 2 hour program starting at 11pm, but since 2006 has been expanded into a 3 hour show starting at 10pm.
Roots 'N All reflects the contemporary roots music scene worldwide. The show features local and overseas musicians from genres as diverse as Blues, Folk, Jazz, Country, Soul, Reggae and World.
Roots N All began hosted by Jordie Kilby began as a replacement for popular program The J Files in 2004. Jordie then left to go overseas in 2005, so Australian songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
and guitarist Jeff Lang
Jeff Lang
Jeff Lang is an Australian songwriter, singer and slide guitarist. A leading performer in the Australian roots music scene and purveyer of his self-described "disturbed folk" style, which incorporates primarily folk, blues and rock...
temporarily hosted.
In late 2005 blues musician Ash Grunwald
Ash Grunwald
Ash Grunwald is an Australian radio announcer and blues musician.-Early career:...
took over hosting duties. In events that Ash Grunwald has gigs that effect presenting Roots N All, Sarah Howells will usually fill-in. On 21 December 2006 Ash presented his last show of Roots N All and finished his role as a Triple J presenter.
Roots N All returned on 11 January 2007, with Sarah Howells as the permanent presenter.