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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Host John Floridis sat down to talk shop with Al Obando from the Garifuna Collective at the 2019 Montana Folk Festival to lean about the unique cul...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
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Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfa...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfa...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Groundbreaking Australian-American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Butler returns to Musician’s Spotlight to visit with host John Floridi...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 4
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Groundbreaking Australian-American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Butler returns to Musician’s Spotlight to visit with host John Floridi...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 4
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This is the introduction of the new hour long format for Musician’s Spotlight. For now over three decades Ani DiFranco has blazed trails musically,...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:19
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This is the introduction of the new hour long format for Musician’s Spotlight. For now over three decades Ani DiFranco has blazed trails musically,...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 4
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Singer and composer extraordinaire Moira Smiley returns to Musician’s Spotlight on the heels of her most recent album “Unzip The Horizon” as well a...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Missoula based singer songwriter and Montana honky tonk legend Russ Nasset returns to Musician’s Spotlight for a chat with host John Floridis. Whet...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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How many musicians can lay claim to being not only a first class jazz pianist but the foremost virtuoso of the diatonic harmonica? Grammy winner Ho...

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  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
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An artist who literally need no introduction, the legendary singer and songwriter and Grammy Award winner Judy Collins visits with host John Florid...

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  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 3
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Kristin Korb jumped ahead of the game in a musical sense, when she took up the advice of one of her college professors to take up singing along wit...

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  • Added: May 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
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"When the anesthesia wore off, I looked up hazily at my parents and his doctors. and tried to piece together any memory of my life.” Legendary jazz...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
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Without question one of the most influential instrumental performers of his generation and one of the greatest players of the modern banjo in music...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
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Dimitris Mann is the main driving force behind the Greek Rebetiko Trio performing music that he describes as "Greek blues.” The music is a synthesi...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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From the time he left his home of Beaumont, Texas in the 1960’s up to present day 2019, singer, saxophonist and keyboardist and rock and roll legen...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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Missoula Symphony Orchestra director Darko Butorac was praised by the Westdeutsche Zeitung for his “exceptional combination of passion, elegance an...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
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Riyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia. The ensemble’s musicians, who are settled in the United States, hail from Indi...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
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Once compared to a man who wears many suits, in thirty-two short years Justin Townes Earle has experienced more than most, both personally and prof...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
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The founder of the popular Missoula based alt folk band Butter, Hermina Jean returns to Musician’s Spotlight to discuss her recent move to performi...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 2