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French-American music is thriving in Maine and Don and Cindy Roy have a lot to do with that!
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:00
The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival may be global but it has deep roots in Bloomington, Indiana.
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
It's a jazzy show as impressario Todd Barkan remembers his life with the music and musicians.
- Added: Jul 20, 2018
- Length: 34:01
Rapper Dessa explores her broken heart at the intersection of science and music
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 4
Meet Ira Gitler: Jazz writer, historian, critic and 2017 NEA Jazz Master
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Renée Fleming along with other musicians and scientists look at the remarkable ability of music to make us whole.
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts speak with bassist and NEA Jazz MAster Dave Hollnd
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
Nicholas Rodriguez brings classic American musical theater into
the 21st century
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
With Presidential Suite,Ted Nash transforms iconic political speeches into an inventive jazz composition.
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Button accordionist and 2016 National Heritage fellow billy McComiskey plays beautifully and builds a community for irish music.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
McBride’s latest book looks to understand what shaped James Brown-- one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Composer John Adams reflects on his creating American music that’s intense, sensual and meaningful.
Bought by WABE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director an...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
He helped develop the Folk Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts and he's been head of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Now, Dan Shee...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, KPVL, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions.
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Find out about the artistic exuberance that is Squonk Opera with artistic directors and founders, Jackie Dempsey and Steve O'Hearn.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, KPVL, WABE, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
Luthier, guitarist and 1995 national Heritage Fellow Wayne Henderson discusses his distinctive guitars and his distinctive sound.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, WNJR, KPVL, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Rahim AlHaj is quite simply one of the best oud players in the world. In this broadcast, Rahim performs and shares his story of leaving Iraq and c...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WABE, WMMT, WNJR, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
2001 National Heritage Fellow Joe Wilson weaves his storytelling spell into the history of Blue Ridge Mountain culture.
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 4
Carla Bley is a prolific and agile composer and jazz pianist. She talks about her career--from Birdland to Montreux.
Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
Over his fifty-plus year career, John Williams has written many of the most famous scores in Hollywood film history.
- Added: Jan 01, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
2014 NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Doyle talks about his passion for Irish Step Dancing.
- Added: Sep 11, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Believing that music is a unifying force, the string quartet ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions. The result is musica...
- Added: Aug 07, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
