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How can breaking bread—or injera—together make a place home?
How one kitchen disaster led the team at Shelter in Place podcast through the Eritrea...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 37:21
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 27:53
Page Wilson ten years ago this month, and the Richmond music scene will never be quite the same. Page was a player and host of the most popular “re...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 25:55
Jazz vocals all about the glass being half-full.
- Added: Nov 28, 2020
- Length: 01:03:05
A little levity from talented and inventive musicians can go a long way to putting some pep in your step. Fats Waller could hardly keep from adding...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
You might say he didn’t take his music seriously. On the other hand, bandleader and clarinetist Ted Lewis is one of the best known performers of th...
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- Added: Nov 14, 2019
- Length: 59:00
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Now approaching national treasure status in the UK, Ruby is a veteran Soul and Gospel singer - one of the finest the UK has ever seen.
- Added: Oct 24, 2019
- Length: 27:10
In 1925, pianist Joel Shaw became vast friends with bandleader Gene Kardos. They clicked. Their style had elements of jazz, society dance band and ...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Jamila Davenport of Durham, NC has been a lifelong fan of singer Kenny Loggins. When he comes to perform at the venue she manages, she comes face-t...
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 04:21
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 23:44
At 32, Larry Tazuma embarked on a journey to live a life as somebody much more special than himself — as Bruce Lee, the legendary martial artist an...
- Added: Aug 04, 2018
- Length: 05:30
Jim Dale and Susie Essman star in HOLY MOLY, two short comedies by Alan Zweibel and David Ives.
In PLAYING GOD, a divine comedy from SNL's Alan Zw...
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- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 5
During prohibition train fare to Canada was considerably cheaper than dealing with the mob syndicate that controlled liquor distribution. Not only ...
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
In the latter 1920s the art of crooning became very popular. Male vocalists began performing their songs in a romantic, intimate, just-for-you styl...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
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Poets and troubadours have been writing and singing about it for centuries. The music of the 1920s is no different. This program features a selecti...
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- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? ...with Dead Ladies. In this episode -- Constance Markievicz. The Irish revolutionary known as ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 33:11
Since there were no rules about where jazz fit into the scheme of popular music in the 1920s, every imaginable fell into the grand experiment. Basi...
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- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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He was known as "The Titan of the Tuba," and by any measure he was beyond the standard rhythm section player.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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The dawn of the 20th century ushered in an era of innovation never seen before. By the 1920s it seemed that everything and everyone was in motion.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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There is a myriad of possible themes in musical circles, but among the most common is the love theme. Finding love, being in love, or losing love. ...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
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The Alley of Song and America’s popular music of the 1920s, jazz, crossed over in 1917. It wasn’t long before musicians began to revive compositi...
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- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 59:00
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When there's a movie chase scene, more often than not, the accompanying music is jazz.
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- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 59:00
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In 1946 Milton Mezzrow, otherwise known as Mezz, wrote a tell all book about his experiences with jazz in the 1920s and '30s.
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- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 59:00
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The spontaneous enthusiasm of jazz brought exuberance to the dance floor in the 1920s.
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- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 58:59
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