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A conversation about Folk Arts: Grassroots self-expression
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Barry Bergey with Mavis Staples, Credit: Tom Pich
The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Theater artist Ping Chong shines a spotlight on race in America with Collidescope.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Moriamo Akibu in COLLIDESCOPE , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
Shirley Sneve on getting the voices of Native-Americans on the airwaves.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Shirley Sneve talks about Native American Public Telecommunications which shares stories of Native American people on television and radio.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles W. Morgan at Sea
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Retired Navy doctor and poet Fred Foote on the healing power of the arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Fred Foote
In Medic Against Bomb, Fred Foote’s first collection of poetry, the neurologist demonstartes first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Author Max Brooks has put zombies on the global map!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
A conversation with award-winning Indie filmmaker Nicole Gomez Fisher
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Gina Rodriguez and Ana Ortiz in "Sleeping with the Fishes", Credit: Breaking Glass Pictures
Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes... and goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Broo...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Art of the Porcupine
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yvonne Walker Keshick, Credit: Michael G. Stewart
2014 National Heritage Fellow and member of the Odawa Nation, Yvonne Walker Keshick describes the long history of making decorative art from quills.

Bought by WSLR, KFCF FM, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 5
Song and conversation with "Chunky" Sanchez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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For forty years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Carla Perlo, founder and artistic director of Dance Place
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Elizabeth McCracken, Credit: Edward Carey
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Lisa See and her “China Dolls”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Perry Brown of Fire Mountain (Full Music Radio Version)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: All Dies Down by Fire Mountain, Credit: Official Album Cover
Perry Brown is a graphic designer in Montgomery by day, and a musician in his hometown of Troy -- 90 minutes away -- by night. As a band currently...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KSRQ, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Interview With John Howie, Jr (Music Version)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: John Howie, Jr & The Rosewood Bluff, Everything Except Goodbye, Credit: Cover Art By Skillet Gilmore
John Howie, Jr. has been regionally successful with his prior band, The Two Dollar Pistols, but when he broke up the band to bring in other influen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, WLPR , and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Conversation with Sherrie Maricle
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sherrie Maricle and Diva, Credit: Shaun Mader
Sherrie Maricle has played with Jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for woman in jazz.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Lee Tasjan Interview #1411
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Aaron Lee Tasjan, Credit: Crooked River Burning album cover
Aaron Lee Tasjan has played guitar for the New York Dolls, Drivin N Cryin, and The Golden Palominos, his own bands, Semi Precious Weapons and the M...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WLPR , WLPR , KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 11 - Filmmaker Terence Davies Interview
From: Andy Moore
Series: Andy's Treasure Trove
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Andy Moore's interview with British actor, writer and director Terence Davies. Andy talks to Davies about the 1992 film The Long Day Closes, a beau...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 37:10
Author Martin Cruz Smith and “Tatiana”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Country Fried Rock: The Defibulators
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Debt'll Get 'Em, Credit: Album Cover
Bug Jennings never thought he'd leave Ft. Worth, Texas for Brooklyn and form a country band, but that's just what happened -- thanks to a chance me...

Bought by KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KFOK-LPFM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock Interviews The Whiskey Gentry
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Album Cover
Lauren Staley fronts The Whiskey Gentry, a roots band from Atlanta that draws heavily from bluegrass and traditional country storytelling. With a ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Howard Smith interviews Joe Cocker 11/21/1969
From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes
Caption: Collection 4 - Woodstock, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Joe Cocker, Nov. 21st, 1969. Riding on his new success from Woodstock, Cocker and his band return to the US for a qui...

Bought by KVNF, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
Howard Smith interivews Eric Clapton 10/24/1970
From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes
Caption: Collection 1 - Fillmore East, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Eric Clapton, Oct. 24, 1970. Clapton's new band, Derek & the Dominos, will play the Fillmore East immediately followi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Benanav who crossed the Sahara on a camel
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Men of Salt” this adventurer and outdoorsman travels from Timbuktu to the salt mines deep in the Mali desert. He traveled eighteen hours daily ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2