Celebrate New Year's with Toast of the Nation

We got a globe-trotting party this New Year's! Four worldly bands present grooving sounds from four locations.

We begin with the Grammy-nominated Gullah Geechee musicians from Charleston, S.C.: Ranky Tanky. They are updating some old, foot-stomping rhythms for the modern day with an icon of soul singing, Ms. Lisa Fischer, from the stage of SFJAZZ in San Francisco.

Then, an elder of Cuban piano, Chucho Valdés, presents his self-proclaimed masterpiece, , at the Kennedy Center in Washington,