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Up Close And Acoustic with Cosmograf's Robin Armstrong
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Robin Armstrong, Credit: Robin Armstrong Facebook
Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:56:11
Appalachian Vibes featuring Casey Noel, A Jordan & Resonant Rogues
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
Caption: Appalachian Vibes , Credit: Amanda Bocchi
This week on Appalachian Vibes, my guest is Casey Noel, a Costa Rican Appalachian singer-songwriter from Greensboro NC-she reveals her latest singl...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:34
Episode 34: Lost and Found
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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On today’s episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by liste...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 45:28
Up Close And Acoustic with Janie Barnett
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Janie Barnett, Credit: janiebarnett.com
If you are seeking to make music your life and career, the path that my guest Janie Barnett has navigated through the 'music biz', should demand yo...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:12
Up Close And Acoustic with Rob Clancy
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Rob Clancy, Credit: robclancyofficial.com
I first met Rob Clancy at a small local radio station when he and his band Cold Roses were up and comers in the Philly music scene a few years back...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2020
  • Length: 56:00
Up Close And Acoustic with Rise Twain
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Jeremy and Brett from Rise Twain, Credit: Rise Twain Facebook page
Singers and Songwriters Jeremy Beck and Brett Kull join forces to form the core of the Progressive Rock band, Rise Twain. Mixing everything they lo...

Bought by KTNA and WSLR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 2
Canción Mixteca
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Singer Yesenia Mejia of Artisanas Mexicanas

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
Up Close And Acoustic with Carlene Carter
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Carlene Carter, Credit: Marc Hauser
Carlene Carter, proud member of the long celebrated Carter family of music, stops by Up Close And Acoustic to talk about music, legacy, family hist...

Bought by KTNA and KTNA


  • Added: Apr 26, 2019
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 2
Up Close And Acoustic with Darlingside
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Darlingside in concert, Credit: Lauren Sophia Photography from Darlingside's Facebook
Darlingside is a Boston based quartet of rock musicians with an affinity for vocal harmony and complex accompanying instrumentation. The guys met i...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 26, 2019
  • Length: 57:02
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert FULL DOCUMENTARY
From: Robin Valk
Caption: Chris Bowden at 'A Jazz Thing', Birmingham 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
An explosive UK Jazz talent re-emerges after a decade in the shadows. A tale of creativity and redemption.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:52
Episode #1 – TIME
From: Radiotopia
Series: Ways of Hearing
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Contemplate the way digital audio employs a different sense of time than we use in our offline life.

Bought by Indie3 Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), KRZA, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 22:44
  • Purchases: 5
Polish Music
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Penderecki and host John Clare, Credit: Luis Catan
We'll hear music with Polish masters Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Gorecki, Andrzej Panufnik and Witold Lutoslawski. Don't miss new releases on Warn...

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KVNO, WETS and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Magic Door
From: Gianluca Tramontana
Caption: Producing at the Magic Shop, Credit: Gianluca Tramontana
An inside look into the closing of one of New York City’s last iconic recording studio where David Bowie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Blond...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Olivia Block: the room I was in
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
Caption: Olivia Block gathering audio in Chicago
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 3
Big dreams for a small-town rapper
From: Brenna Daldorph
Caption: Tracy Howerton raps about both the struggles and joys that he's experienced growing up in Mashpee, Massachusetts., Credit: Brenna Daldorph
Even if you grow up in a hip hop hotspot like New York or LA, it’s not easy to make it as a rapper. It’s even harder if you’re from a small town li...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Maggie McKaig and Luke Wilson
From: Brian Bahouth
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As part of my exploration of musicians who live in the vicinity of Nevada City, California I visited the home of Maggie McKaig and Luke Wilson. Tog...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part II
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between ...

Bought by WMNR, KMUW, KPIP-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 33:10
  • Purchases: 4
The Calling Voice - Moira Smiley and Voco
From: Anny Celsi
Caption: Voco performing live: April Guthrie, Moira Smiley, Sally Dworsky , Credit: Simone McSparran
VOCO sings folk music - but not the usual coffeehouse fare. It’s music that's steeped in generations of tradition, from far-off, tucked-away corner...

Bought by American Voices


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Dr. Lonnie Smith
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Dr. Lonnie Smith
"They name it -- they just come up with all kinds of names..."'Funk'... 'jazz' or... 'acid jazz.' Or they named it 'boogaloo.' We don't know anyth...

Bought by Prairie Public, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 5
NEA Jazz Moments wirth Lorraine Gordon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, LORRAINE GORDON. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 12
Sacred Music from the Navel of the World
From: Zak Rosen
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A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 2
The R&B Chronicles - Remembering Whitney Houston
From: WHRV
Series: The R&B Chronicles
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Celebrating the life of Whitney Houston

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KUCB


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:43
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota with Travis Ryder; Teague Alexy - A documentary from Amy Clark
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Teague Alexy
We hear a sound rich documentary featuring Teague Alexy of Duluth. His new record is titled "This Dance." This week Travis also brings us music fro...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota: Cabin Fever Reliever Bluegrass Draw Band documentary by Dave Lathrop
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Bluegrass Draw Band, Credit: Dave Lathrop
Producer Dave Lathrop documents the "draw band" process at the Cabin Fever Reliever Bluegrass gathering in Duluth. Dave follows one of the draw ban...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:45
  • Purchases: 1