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This edition of Folk Salad focuses on Country Soul ie. Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Melissa Carper, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Rich Mahan, Peter Wolf & Shelby...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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This week we hear the Sonatina in G major for Violin and Piano, Op. 100 by Dvořák, and Brahms' Quartet in B-flar major for Strings, Op. 67.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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A program of music from the very first Monterey Jazz Festival. Featured artists include Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Gerry Mullligan, Dave Bru...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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
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This week we pay tribute to the late, great Robbie Robertson. Robbie did his homework and listened to the greats, then absorbed those influences a...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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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
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In "Beethoven's Star Pupil" we hear Hummel's Quintet in E-flat, Op. 87 and Beethoven's Quartet in C-minor for strings, Op. 18, No. 4.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
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Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Jazz theorist George Russell and the young trombonist David Baker formed a progressive-bop group at the beginning of the 1960s so modern that it wa...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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[please do not broadcast this unless you are also committing to broadcasting at least one hour of the full program at PRX ] TRAILER TO : THE LASTI...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 12:23
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Robbie Robertson, chief writer for the legendary and hugely influential rock group simply called The Band, has passed away at the age of 80. Music ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Morehead State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRCB 104.9, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 29
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This airing of Folk Salad continues the Play Tulsa Music theme. This will be Part II of play Tulsa music. We shine the light on many of our great...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Hank Mobley were two leading exemplars of the 1950s and '60s hardbop sound and recorded together on a number ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Carl Friedrich Abel performed on and wrote for the viola da gamba in a time when its popularity was declining. This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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Live recordings made at the nightclub in Hermosa Beach, California, featuring Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, and others.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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This airing of Folk Salad is a celebration of Tulsa Music. July has been declared by our mayor as play Tulsa music month, and to support that decl...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Pablo Garibay
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Mozart, Marais, Satie, Arnaud Dumond, Ponce, Raimo Kangro, and Dusan Bogdanovic.

Bought by Ohm Radio , WPVM 103.7, WEKU, WUAL, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
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In 1971, Columbia Records signed four of modern jazz's greatest artists. Within two years all four were gone. What happened?

  • Added: Jul 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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This airing of Folk Salad is all about Woodyfest an annual celebration of the life of Woody Guthrie. We play songs from the man himself and those ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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This airing of Folk Salad has us visiting the Americana Charts ie. Joshua Ray Walker, Rodney Crowell, Turnpike Troubadours and more, and as always ...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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In the years following World War II, Black American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Bud Powell took up residence in France,...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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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
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Folk Salad embraces summer with summer themed songs or at least songs that make us think of summer. Pour yourself a lemonade and tune in to hear s...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:58