Musician's Spotlight

Series produced by John Floridis

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Voted "Best Non-Commercial Program" by the Montana Broadcaster's Association, Musician's Spotlight is a weekly, prerecorded, 60 minute program featuring music and conversation by a wide range of musicians and groups. The program is hosted and produced by John Floridis, in association with Montana Public Radio.

Today's most talented and compelling musicians visit Musician's Spotlight to "talk shop" and give you a deeper insight into their music. Host and producer John Floridis brings his own musical expertise along with over a decade and a half of experience conducting interviews.

Guests on the show have included legendary musicians like B.B King, Alison Krauss, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Iron and Wine, The Emerson Quartet, Judy Collins, Bela Fleck, Grace Potter, Lyle Lovett, Wilco, Brandi Carlile, Daryl Jones of the Rolling Stones, The Cowboy Junkies, Richard Thompson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Shawn Colvin, Edgar Winter, KT Tunstall, The Kronos Quartet, Marc Cohn and Chris Hillman of the Byrds along with talented Montana artists like Jeni Flemming, Tom Catmull, Martha Scanlan, John Dunnigan, Jenn Adams, Jack Gladstone and Eden Atwood.
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Today's most talented and compelling musicians visit Musician's Spotlight to "talk shop" and give you a deeper insight into their music. Host and producer John Floridis brings his own musical expertise along with over a decade and a half of experience conducting interviews. Guests on the show have included legendary musicians like B.B King, Alison Krauss, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Iron and Wine, The Emerson Quartet, Judy Collins, Bela Fleck, Grace Potter, Lyle Lovett, Wilco, Brandi Carlile, Daryl Jones of the Rolling Stones, The Cowboy Junkies, Richard Thompson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Shawn Colvin, Edgar Winter, KT Tunstall, The Kronos Quartet, Marc Cohn and Chris Hillman of the Byrds along with talented Montana artists like Jeni Flemming, Tom Catmull, Martha Scanlan,... Show full description


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Multiple Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter song interpreter Joan Osborne visits with host John Floridis to talk about her four decade career ...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Suzy Bogguss joins host John Floridis on this Musician's Spotlight. Through her four decade career that has ...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:42
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A much anticipated Musician's Spotlight with the Fanoos Ensemble. Tune in to hear their remarkable story, told in music and words: The story of the...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
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Dynamic singer songwriter Martin Sexton returns to Musician's Spotlight to check in since his last visit in 2017. He talks about how the music of t...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Stefan and Kerrie Szabo of National Park Radio visit with host John Floridis. Stefan and Kerrie discuss the origins of the group and how Kerrie bec...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Saxophonist and composer Branford Marsalis visits with host John Floridis to talk about his 40 year career as a performer, recording artist, actor ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
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A special Musician's Spotlight featuring two multiple Grammy Award winning singer songwriters, Shawn Colvin and Marc Cohn. The two artists have ha...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
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Singer songwriter Jeffrey Foucault returns to Musician's Spotlight to visit with host John Floridis and discuss his most recent release "Deadstock....

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
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Suzanne Bona, renowned host of Sunday Baroque and the flutist of the Sylvan Trio joins host John Floridis for her first Spotlight interview. Bona t...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
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Drummer and composer Sunny Jain, the creative force behind the Bhangra fusion of Red Baraat as well as numerous other projects visits with host Jo...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Chicago based blues singer and guitarist Melody Angel joins host John Floridis to talk about her career, her blues pedigree (cousin of the iconic m...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
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An archival remix of two programs from 2017 and 2018 brings together saxophonist, flutist, singer and composer Erica Von Kleist and Trombonist and ...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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World renowned Nuvo traditional Scottish music duo fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist Natalie Haas return to Musician's Spotlight after 15 years t...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:17
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Songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Theo Katzman visits with host John Floridis. Katzman, known for both his solo work as well as his cont...

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  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
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"Emma Donovan can front a well-oiled soul band in her sleep” – Rolling Stone Renowned Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter Emma Donovan joi...

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  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:36
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Multiple Grammy nominated jazz singer Sara Gazarek joins host John Floridis for conversation about her beginnings in music during her youth in Seat...

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  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
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One of the most successful and popular bluegrass musicians of her generation, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Rhonda Vincent joins in ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
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One of the most popular and successful traditional Irish music groups in the world, Lunasa is featured here on their first Musician's Spotlight. Fl...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Chilean born singer, guitarist and composer Camila Meza returns to Musician's Spotlight. Camila goes deep in describing the process, both creativel...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Gulf Coast Soul from the Suffers arrives to Musician's Spotlight, as singer Kam Franklin visits with host John Floridis. Kam dives deep into her Ho...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 2