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Bluegrass music is in a constant state of evolution. Bluegrass artists are drawn to the catalog of songs by the Father of Bluegrass music, Bill Mon...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 06:44
The banjo was not in style in the 1940s. But that situation changed a short time after the end of World War II when Earl Scruggs showcased his styl...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 1
You keep hearing about sticking to the melody when you play. But every player knows that there are times to build off the melody of a song or time....
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 07:35
Why do kids bully? And what moves them to stop?
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 30:58
- Purchases: 2
We talk strategies for teaching computer science (CS), with Dr. Cynthia Taylor, a computer science professor at The University of Illinois at Chica...
- Added: Aug 27, 2017
- Length: 37:10
The Jana Nyberg Five. Jana leads jazz groups, she teaches music, she leads workshops, she is experienced at multiple instruments, and of course she...
- Added: Aug 01, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Do you happen to know of the Execs big band? When the group was founded in 1965, it was composed of Twin Cities business people. So the name Execs ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 08:00
We’ll hear from two amazing sisters, Katia and Marielle Labeque, play music by Satie, Riley, Bernstein, and Philip Glass on today’s What’s New.
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
What happens when the executive spin doctor for one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country confronts the consequences of his spin...
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- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 32:37
- Purchases: 1
Paul Barry (“Berry”) is a veteran blues band leader. Among the things that he has picked up over the years is that many people like the blues. But,...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 07:46
Joe Kopel. If there is anybody with songwriting in his DNA, it is Joe. As a kid he would write his own lyrics to existing songs. By high school, he...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 06:25
Warren Thomas Fenzi. He’s a young songwriter writes from his own experiences. Warren plays with other members of a collective, and the members back...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 08:08
We'll hear Zabur by Mohammed Fairouz and Cello Concerto by Nico Muhly, recordings with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on a special Indiana Bic...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Bluegrass is American. Bluegrass and America are obviously connected. But there are few songs about the connections. The strongest connections lie ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 07:07
We know that bluegrass is not a ritual, nor a catalog of rules that have to be followed. But still bluegrass fans, business people, players and sch...
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 07:59
There is always a group of fans and music industry people who proclaim that the future will be won by bluegrass groups that become more like Progre...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 08:47
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture, conceived broadly. Each Gem ...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 04:36
The Phil Hey Quartet plays at Jazz Central on May 19. It’s a group of 4 committed jazz musicians who got started playing together almost by acciden...
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Bill Monroe’s bluegrass is often viewed as a musical big bang. But while it was different than the string band music preceding Monroe’s Blue Grass...
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 07:23
The Blues has been around a long time because it’s a way of telling it like it is. And that is how Nikki and the RueMates operates. Nikki told Phil...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 08:12
Most musical idioms in the United States are touched by the blues. That includes bluegrass of course, Many consider the combining of African Americ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2017
- Length: 05:12
A rollicking music intensive salute to the music of Chuck Berry, who passed away at the age of 90 at his home in Missouri, Saturday, March 18, 2017...
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- Added: Mar 19, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 25
What is traditional about bluegrass lyrics? The definition of tradition usually has to do with continuing something over time. Some bluegrass songs...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 07:47
What do radio silence, the FCC, net neutrality, President Trump's first solo press conference, and Richard Wagner have in common? Welcome to In-Stu...
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- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 53:16
- Purchases: 1
Who enjoys work? Old-time farmers? That was a work all the time existence on the family farm. It had its satisfactions such as working with nature ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 07:18
