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Up Close And Acoustic with Robin Armstrong of Cosmograf 2022 Part 1

From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic

Caption: Cosmograf Heroic Materials, Credit: Cosmograf Facebook

Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...

Bill Withers: Just As He Is

From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials

A deep look into the late Bill Withers early life in music that set up the making of his debut album, "Just As I Am." Please consider this free on...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, WOMR, WKMS, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more

Rock n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip

From: Anny Celsi

Caption: The Beatles - Abbey Road, Credit: Robert Landau

The very first rock billboard arrived on the strip fifty years ago, just in time for the Summer of Love. It was the brainchild of Elektra Records...

Bought by KALW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WOUB

High-tech Tools May Help Save Some Orchestras

From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism

Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...

LOVE & MERCY -- Bill Pohlad Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Bill Pohlad, San Francisco, CA 5/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase

Bill Pohlad talks audience interpretations, casting two actors in one role, and how truth is stranger than fiction.

The Spiritual Edge: Celebrating the commonalities at Oakland’s ‘Sushi’ Mosque

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge

Caption: Musicians lead the congregation in Praise Singing at ICCNC, Credit: Hana Baba

Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...

Preparing for the SF International Hip Hop DanceFest

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Dance company, Mind Over Matter , Credit: Allan Frias

About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...

Choreographers' Evening 2014

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

A preview of Choreographers' Evening 2014 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with Kenna-Camara Cottman and the dancers of In New Company.

Bought by KSRQ

WHIPLASH -- Damien Chazelle Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Caption: Damien Chazelle, San Francisco, CA 10/8/13, Credit: Andrea Chase

Damien Chazelle talks primal myths, subjective reality, and making Miles Teller bleed.

Bought by WABE

Bay Area Beats: Meet San Francisco's Mystic Blaze

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats

TraVaughn Hicks has been making music since he was a young boy and his rapper uncle would record him singing on his songs.

Celebrating 40 years of dancing the African diaspora

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Twelve dancers -- men and women all dressed in black rehearsal clothes -- move with fierce and graceful undulations through the space. They dance t...

Bought by WABE

I'll Take You There: Using Music To Revitalize Soulsville

From: Eleanor Boudreau

Caption: The home of bluesman Memphis Slim, a historic site next to the Stax Museum. A partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plans to turn this house into a place where musicians can practice and record.

It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Opera in the Coalfields

From: With Good Reason

One of America’s greatest composers was Aaron Copland, who wrote among other things, an opera called The Tender Land, which premiered at the New Yo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Soundtracking "The Descendants" With "Real" Hawaiian Music

From: Heidi Chang

Caption: Gabby Pahinui (center), playing music in his backyard with Leland “Atta” Isaacs (left), and his sons – Phillip, Cyril and Martin Pahinui (from left to right). , Credit: Photo courtesy of the Pahinui Ohana.

The groundbreaking soundtrack of "The Descendants," marks the first time a Hollywood movie has ever been scored entirely with Hawaiian music. It fe...

Mike Doughty Talks Social Media, Addiction, and Songwriting

From: New Hampshire Public Radio

Caption: Mike Doughty, Credit: Deborah Lopez

Producer Rebecca Lavoie talks with singer-songwriter Mike Doughty about his unusually interactive presence on social media sites, the new narrative...

Fight Songs

From: Richard Paul

The history of the football Fight Song

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Native Sounds: Buffy Sainte-Marie

From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds

Caption: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Credit: Paquin Entertainment

Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with Native media and music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSQM 91.5 FM, and WGDR

International Guitar Night: Four virtuosos from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

There are some guitarists for whom one insturment isan't enough. Brian Gore is one of them. For the past decade, he’s been realizing his ambition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Chris Bocast and MJ Catalin: Global Possibilities

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Ambient guitar meets electronica percussion via the internet in a CD of cinematic sweep

Wendy & Lisa: Former Prince divas become heroic composers

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music of albums like Purple Rain. But...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio