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Giving New Life to Ancient Easter Tunes
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Join us for an Easter celebration this week on Harmonia! We’ll hear how composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods created new m...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Spanish Hour 2411: Music for Children
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Young People's Chorus of New York City members
Music written for children -- to sing, to play, to enjoy -- by Cuban-born Paquito D'Rivera and Emilio Aragón, Catalan Xavier Montsalvatge, and Teru...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KVNO and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 31
Womenfolk #240214
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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Valentine's Day Special w/Lucy Kaplansky

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:06
NL 24-10: Jazz Women of the 1960s, 3/4/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Global Village 3.7.24 or floating date
From: KMUW
Series: Global Village with Chris Heim
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SPECIAL: In conjunction with the March Irish-American Heritage Month feature, Global Village showcases music from one of the great traditional band...

Bought by WOMR, KIYU-FM, KSKA, KRDP, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 28
HARM 24-14: The Black Hour, 4/1/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia
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In 1433, around 3:00 PM in Scotland in high summer, the sun vanished. This total solar eclipse came to be known as “The Black Hour.” Join us this ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The Black Hour
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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Eclipses are awe-inspiring even today, but imagine witnessing an eclipse in the days before dollar-store glasses. You might not know why the sun wa...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
To Be Somebody: The Hazel Scott Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Music Archive Showcase #161 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Peter Case on THE MIDNIGHT BROADCAST Album
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Highly-regarded singer/songwriter Peter Case offers insight to the creative process of shaping his 2021 album called THE MIDNIGHT BROADCAST into wh...

Bought by KUHF, KSJE, North State Public Radio, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Womenfolk #240221
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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Celebrating Black History Month

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:03
The Spanish Hour 2409: Mexico‘s Choral Music Tradition
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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From 17th -century masters Juan García de Zéspedes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla to modern-day composers Guillermo Alvarez Navarro and Sergio Cárde...

Bought by KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, WCQS, KVNO and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 33
Note to Self
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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https://indianapublicmedia.org/porchlight/note-to-self.php

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Early Morning
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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The hours around dawn, reflected upon in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Buddy
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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One of the greats of early rock 'n' roll, remembered in story and song.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
Global Village 2.23.24 or floating date
From: KMUW
Series: Global Village with Chris Heim
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Global Village visits North Africa this time for contemporary sounds from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, and Sudan. Among the artists featured a...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KSKA, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 33
Global Village 2.16.24 or floating date
From: KMUW
Series: Global Village with Chris Heim
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SPECIAL: Some fun sounds this time in the Global Village as we highlight ‘60s and ‘70s pop and rock from Asia. We’ll hear distinctive sounds that c...

Bought by KRZA, KIYU-FM, KBBI Alaska, RADIOLEX, KSKA and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 29
NL 24-07: Suite History: Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey, 2/12/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
Suite History - Four Jazz Composers and the African-American Odyssey
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WSLR, KCSM, Morehead State Public Radio, WLRH and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 20
Rhythm Atlas 320 2024-02-05 Mardi Gras & Carnival Special
From: Denis McGilvray
Series: The Rhythm Atlas
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NOTE: THIS IS ONLY A PLACEHOLDER AND NOT A FULL PROGRAM - PLEASE READ IMPORTANT INFO: for the week of February 5 - 11, 2024 regular program carrier...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
It's All Happening - Pharmizer (IAH 007)
From: Andy Valeri / Big Beef Productions
Series: It's All Happening
Caption: It's All Happening - Pharmizer, Credit: Artwork by Rachel Botting (@rachy1.0)
Episode #7 of this weekly music-based program delivering an inspired reinvention of how we inform ourselves about and experience the world we live ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
The Spanish Hour 2405: Dances, Impressions & Rhapsodies
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Quena (Andean bamboo flute)
From Joaquín Rodrigo to Ernesto Lecuona to Alberto Ginastera to Gabriela Lena Frank, old and new favorites from Spain and Latin America.

Bought by KSJE, WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KMUN, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 21
It's All Happening - War/Ukraine (IAH 006)
From: Andy Valeri / Big Beef Productions
Series: It's All Happening
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Episode #6 of this weekly music-based program delivering an inspired reinvention of how we inform ourselves about and experience the world we live ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
Womenfolk #240110
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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Gillian Welch Tribute + Preview of 2024 Releases

  • Added: Jan 13, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:05
It's Time! Max Roach In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A centennial tribute to Max Roach, who set the pace for modern jazz drumming and became an outspoken activist for civil rights.

Bought by WSKG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUAT and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6