Tracks: 1 Nandere 2 Love Song 3 White Snow in a Sunny Spring 4 I'm Going Back to North Carolina 5 Raining 6 Dance of the Yi People 7 Cossack Lament 8 Old Joe Clark 9 Bat-Out-of-Hell Kozachok 10 Waves Lapping at the Shore 11 Night Rider

Acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man, known for her collaborations with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass and many of the world's great orchestras, here joins forces with musicians from Uganda, Ukraine and the southern Appalachian mountains, an unlikely convergence from disparate corners of the globe that infuses some of the most beloved traditional melodies from these regions with intimate counterpoint and a sparkling energy. A series of lyrical dialogues between the pipa and the banjo, Ukrainian bandura and Ugandan endongo, Wu Man & Friends celebrates the affinity and variety of the world's plucked instruments. Musicians include Wu Man (pipa, voice), Lee Knight (banjo, dulcimer, mouth bow, voice), Julian Kytasty (bandura, sopilka, voice), James Makubuya (endongo, adungu, voice).