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Songs of Thanks and Praise
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us as we sample music of Thanksgiving in early America. From Spanish settlers in Florida to Moravians in North Carolina to the father of Ameri...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WVIA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays is an hour-long special devoted to holiday and wintertime movie music. In addition to beloved standa...

Bought by WLVT, KTEP, WITF, Public Radio East, KISU and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 117
Winter Holidays around the World with Bill McGlaughlin
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Winter holidays are celebrated around the world, and their music is wonderful to hear, regardless of which tradition you observe. Bill’s spirited s...

Bought by WLVT, WGUC/ WVXU, WMNR, Spokane Public Radio, WRKF and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 93
A Chanukah Celebration with Chicago a cappella
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Join Jonathan Miller, artistic director of Chicago a cappella and a longtime champion of Jewish choral music, for an inspiring and informative show...

Bought by KSJE, WLVT, WFDD Ops, KCBX, KUAT and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 131
The Ballad of the Brown King
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Dr. Louise Toppin, a preeminent performer and scholar specializing in the concert repertoire of African American composers, presents the world prem...

Bought by KTEP, WUFT, WCQS, WWNO, WRKF and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 82
THE TRAILER TO: The Lasting Impact of ROBBIE ROBERTSON
From: Paul Ingles
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[please do not broadcast this unless you are also committing to broadcasting at least one hour of the full program at PRX ] TRAILER TO : THE LASTI...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 12:23
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
The Lasting Impact of Robbie Robertson
From: Paul Ingles
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Morehead State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 29
NL 23-27: A Big Band Fourth of July, 6/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
TINA TURNER: Simply the Best (A Tribute) [Optional Hour 2]
From: Paul Ingles
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In this second optional hour of a music special from producer Paul Ingles, listeners will hear more tracks from over 50 years of recording and perf...

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioStPete Florida, KSJE, WRVO Public Media, KUT and more


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Rachmaninoff 150 – A Celebration
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Holiday Specials from WFMT
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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth, acclaimed musicians discuss and perform his compositions, and Rachmaninoff himsel...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KRPS, WHQR, WMNR, KENW and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 15
THE EMERGENCE OF MARVIN GAYE - E 2 of 2 - [1972 - 1984]
From: Paul Ingles
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Music specials host Paul Ingles and a panel of music scholars recall and celebrate the career of Motown music legend Marvin Gaye. This second of 2 ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KAZU Seaside, Calif., WXXI Rochester, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Folk Salad Airing 2-5-2023
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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We are celebrating Black History Month on Folk Salad with the first part of our show focusing on black Oklahoma musicians from the 1920's to the 60...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
Black Composers in Hollywood: Duke Ellington and John Lewis
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
JEFF BECK: Essential Artist
From: Paul Ingles
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JEFF BECK: ESSENTIAL ARTIST – a remembrance of the multi-talented, multi-genre British guitar great JEFF BECK, who passed away January 10, 2023 at ...

Bought by WUTC, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, KTNA, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
NL 23-03: Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes To Martin Luther King Jr., 1/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A Night Lights Wonderland
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
NL 22-52: A Night Lights Wonderland, 12/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
Time (Vol.2) ~ aka New Year's Daze Vol.7
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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So many songs about time, but alas only a two hour frame to present this set of bluegrass, jazz and musically related material that reckon with it ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:44
Memories Christmas Program
From: Bill Taylor
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The Memories Christmas show is a blend of the very best from the 50’s and 60’s Soft Rock and Easy Listening Christmas music. Hosted by Bill Taylor,...

Bought by KUHB and WVRU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:58:48
  • Purchases: 2
It’s Jazz, Charlie Brown: The Vince Guaraldi Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...

Bought by KMUW and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
NL 22-44: Jazz Haunts for Halloween, 10/24/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Smoke dreams, sorcerors, ghosts, and stalking monsters! We'll experience those paranormal jazz encounters with those spectors through the music of ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00