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COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 26:59
This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Most young people don’t know what they want to do with their lives. This is a story about a high school student who was born into a calling – being...
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 05:18
Live Art,sponsored the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, is the only program of its kind in the country, or the world for t...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 24:21
Live Art is the only program of its kind in the country, if not the world. It’s the brainchild of Erin Thomas Foley and what it manages to do is as...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 25:59
Bill Kirchen is a showman and a storyteller. Mainly though he’s a singer and a songwriter and a player of the world’s most versatile Telecaster. Th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 27:32
He’s been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Diesel Billy. Bill Kirchen is all that and a lot more. He’s a master in a league of his o...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 27:45
In her native Nigeria, Cynthia Dieyi is a pop singer who celebrates her culture through her music. But here in America, she's still unknown, and h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 04:17
A growing group of musicians are returning to old analog keyboards, sometimes refurbishing and playing instruments older than they are.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:46
You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
Ordinarily, if you want to perform with an orchestra you have to have years of musical experience and you have to go through a rigorous audition pr...
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:42
- Purchases: 3
Many of the musicians who perform at fiddlers' conventions and music festivals throughout southern Appalachia are, in fact, young kids.
Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WTIP
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 3
Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
The music and musician behind TV’s best Sci-Fi show
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music of albums like Purple Rain. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Some may associate contradancing with corny, gym-class square dance lessons, but for thousands of people across the country, contradancing and its ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 21, 2009
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 1
