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Music in the time of the Coronavirus: Bellevue Porchella with Brooke Ullman
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Brooke Ullman, author of Bellevue Porchella., Credit: Charles McGuigan
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
New Year's Day in South Philly with the Mummers
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice. It’s u...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:35
Live Art Sound of the Human Soul Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Soul Sound, Credit: Charles McGuigan
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 Hammer of the Honky Tonk gods, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bill Kirchen
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
Bill Kirchen: Honky Tonk god, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bill Kirchen
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
The Album Leaf look forward, and return to simplicity
From: Kimberly Haas
Caption: "Forward/Return" by The Album Leaf
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:17
Vintage Synths Enjoy a Renaissance
From: Kimberly Haas
Caption: The Album Leaf
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
Capes & Corsets
From: Frances Harlow
Caption: Nicole Jean dressed as Emma Frost., Credit: Wolfgang Daniel, courtesy of the Salt archives.
Comic books and women's fandom.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
Library Of Congress Preserves A Treasure Trove... Underground (short version)
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The Packard Campus is roughly 500,000 square feet, built into the side of a mountain in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains., Credit: Library of Congress/Matt Raymond
What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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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
Kronos Quartet: Four Decades of Breaking the String Quartet Rules
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Kronos Quartet, Credit: Michael Wilson
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
Fiddle-icious
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Youth
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Adam Larkey
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: Mutantrumpet Ninja
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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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
BEAR McCREARY: FROM SYNTHESIZERS TO CYLONS
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Bear McCreary
The music and musician behind TV’s best Sci-Fi show

  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
There's Nothing Like It
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
Ottmar Liebert and the Scent of Light
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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A pioneer of Nouveau Flamenco guitar expands in cinematic colors

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Shindig
From: KUOW
Series: Dance, Dance, Evolution!
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The process of choreography requires vision, perserverance, and most of all, courage.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
Men in Tights
From: KUOW
Series: Dance, Dance, Evolution!
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Meet several generations of men who say they just have to dance.

Bought by KLCC, WUFT, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 08:34
  • Purchases: 4
The Turning Point
From: KUOW
Series: Dance, Dance, Evolution!
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The artistic director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet has a goal to preserve ballet's classical roots, and at the same time, help to push the boun...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 1
Re-breathing Air
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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The French electro-duo celebrates 10th Anniversary of Moon Safari

Bought by XRAY.fm and KUT-HD


  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
MEETING MILAREPA
From: The Tibet Connection
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The life and legacy of Tibet's most celebrated yogi and spiritual bard is the subject of a new film. We find out more through interviews and song.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
B-Side: Dawn and Dusk, aka The Life Crepuscular
From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
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What happens just before dawn and just before dusk? More than you'd expect. On this edition of B-Side we explore the life crepuscular.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KXOT Public Radio, KUOW, and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Beat Goes On #107: "The History of Swamp Pop"
From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On
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A handpicked collection of songs that traces the history of 1950's and 60's Swamp Pop, a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south L...

Bought by KMXT, Panhandle Community Radio, KSRQ, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Sep 11, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 5
The Beat Goes On #103: "Lyrics by Johnny Mercer"
From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On
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Great renditions of songs from various musical genres composed by Johnny Mercer.

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1