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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month: Meet Manuel Delgado, 3rd Generation Luthier
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Manuel Delgado, Credit: Delgado Guitars
Luthier and Community Activist Manuel Delgado talks about continuing his family’s tradition of hand-crafting stringed instruments while working to ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KFCF FM, KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Neil Young Tribute at the Parkway in Minneapolis Sunday October 22
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Simple Gifts, Credit: Amy Courts
Billy McLaughlin and Simple Gifts celebrate songs of Neil Young, in Harvest at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis, 7PM on Sunday October 22. The sh...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
NL 23-42: Indiana Avenue: Black Boulevard of Jazz, 10/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Indianapolis' Indiana Avenue neighborhood produced several of the most influential jazz artists to appear on the post-World War II jazz scene, incl...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Tejano Legend--Joe Hernandez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Joe Hernandez, Credit: Mark Del Castillo
Meet "Little Joe" Hernández: Tejano Music Performer and 2023 National Heritage Fellow who never left his roots with a career spanning almost 70 yea...

Bought by WDCB, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
Artful Lives: Louie Pérez and Los Lobos telling the stories of East LA
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Louie Pérez of Los Lobos, Credit: Hypothetical
Songwriter and instrumentalist Louie Pérez takes us through the 50 year journey of the legendary band and 2021 National Heritage fellows Los Lobos.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMPG, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Music Archive Showcase #157 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Holly Gleason, editor, of PRINE ON PRINE (John Prine) [Optional Hour 2]
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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In this optional second hour, book editor Holly Gleason and 3 other contributors to the 2023 book release called PRINE ON PRINE: INTERVIEWS AND ENC...

Bought by WAMU, WRVO Public Media, KFSK, KSJE, KUHF and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Womenfolk #230920
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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Deidre McCalla's 50th Anniversary Interview

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
Womenfolk #230913
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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Rachael Kilgour Interview + New Releases

  • Added: Sep 16, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:05
MN Reads: "Blood in the Tracks" by Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik talk about their new book "Blood in the Tracks"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 13:41
Musician's Spotlight - Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin - 847
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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A special Musician's Spotlight featuring two multiple Grammy Award winning singer songwriters, Shawn Colvin and Marc Cohn. The two artists have ha...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 2
Kevin Kling and Victor Zupanc Celebrate Summer into Fall at Crooners Cupper Club, Saturday Night September 16
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Victor Zupanc and Kevin Kling, Credit: Brandi Carlisle
Writer and storyteller Kevin Kling teams with singer Victor Zupanc to highlight Summer turning to Fall. It’s the latest in a series of performances...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Kevin Kling and Victor Zupanc Celebrate Summer into Fall at Crooners Supper Club, Saturday Night September 16
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Victor Zupanc and Kevin Kling, Credit: Brandi Carlisle
Writer and storyteller Kevin Kling teams with singer Victor Zupanc to highlight Summer turning to Fall. These ultimate troubadours, as Crooners Sup...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
NL 23-37: After Brubeck: Paul Desmond In The 1970s, 9/4/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A program featuring the 1970s music of alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, including commentary from Desmond friend and biographer Doug Ramsey.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
NL 23-36: Gennett Days: Hot Jazz From the Heartland, 8/28/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Exploring the emergence of a kinetic jazz scene in 1920s Indiana, with commentary from historian James Madison and others.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Hip-Hop and Arts Education
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Emmett Phillips, Credit: Jennifer Marquez of JamsCreative Photography
Teaching artist Emmett Phillips discusses the dynamic arts education programming he creates through hip-hop.

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Selby Avenue Brass Band Plays with Thomassina Petrus
From: KBEM
Caption: Tom Wells and Thomassina Petrus, Credit: Sue Kearns
The Selby Avenue Brass Band is led by Tom Wells who writes and arranges a lot of Selby Avenue Brass Band music. He goes about it differently depend...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Musician's Spotlight - Jeffrey Foucualt 2023 - 846
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Singer songwriter Jeffrey Foucault returns to Musician's Spotlight to visit with host John Floridis and discuss his most recent release "Deadstock....

Bought by WMUU-LP and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 2
Womenfol #230802
From: Ellen Stanley
Series: Womenfolk Radio
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Remembering Sinead O'Connor + Nields Interview

  • Added: Aug 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:04
JazzMN teams up with Grammy Winner Diane Schuur for a Night of Count Basie Music
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: JazzMN, Credit: Donald Jackson
JazzMN is a Twin Cities jazz orchestra that works frequently with international talent. We talk to JazzMN music director Pete Whitman about JazzMN,...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
JazzMN teams up with Grammy Winner Diane Schuur for a Night of Count Basie Music
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: JazzMN, Credit: Donald Jackson
Back in the 1980s, Diane Schuur was singing with the Count Basie orchestra. She recorded with Basie, the recording won a grammy, and now Diane Schu...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Shahidi and Alicia Thao Perform on The Cedar Plaza, 5PM on August 9, 2023
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Akicia Thao, Credit: Zy Yang
Use through 3:30PM Wednesday, August 9

  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Celebrate the blues with musician Phil Wiggins
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Phil Wiggins, Credit: Bibiana Huang Matheis
We're revisiting 2017 National Heritage Fellow and Blues Harmonica Player Phil Wiggins who brings it all home in this music-rich conversation.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WCPN, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Gil Rose--A Voice for Contemporary Music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Gil Rose, Credit: Kevin Condon
A conversation with Gil Rose who founded and heads three organizations-- the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Odyssey Opera and BMOP/Sound—t...

Bought by WSLR, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WRGY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
A Conversation with a Former Singing Sergeant
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ann Meier Baker, Credit: Courtesy of Chorus America
Meet former Singing Sergeant and current Director of Music and Opera at the National Endowment for the Arts Ann Meier Baker—the woman who went to b...

Bought by WRGY, WSLR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM and more


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 6
NL 23-28: Swing That Music: Louis Armstrong in the Big Band Era, 7/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00