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He helped develop the Folk Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts and he's been head of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Now, Dan Shee...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, KPVL, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
Violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions.
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Find out about the artistic exuberance that is Squonk Opera with artistic directors and founders, Jackie Dempsey and Steve O'Hearn.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, KPVL, WABE, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
Luthier, guitarist and 1995 national Heritage Fellow Wayne Henderson discusses his distinctive guitars and his distinctive sound.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, WNJR, KPVL, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
Rahim AlHaj is quite simply one of the best oud players in the world. In this broadcast, Rahim performs and shares his story of leaving Iraq and c...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WABE, WMMT, WNJR, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
2001 National Heritage Fellow Joe Wilson weaves his storytelling spell into the history of Blue Ridge Mountain culture.
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 4
Carla Bley is a prolific and agile composer and jazz pianist. She talks about her career--from Birdland to Montreux.
Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
Over his fifty-plus year career, John Williams has written many of the most famous scores in Hollywood film history.
- Added: Jan 01, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
2014 NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Doyle talks about his passion for Irish Step Dancing.
- Added: Sep 11, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Believing that music is a unifying force, the string quartet ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions. The result is musica...
- Added: Aug 07, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Where is jazz headed in a new century? With the pianist Vijay Iyer as guide, newly tenured as a professor at Harvard, it tends toward the experimen...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 58:36
- Purchases: 2
For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
Inspired by a recent broadcast that featured story songs, towards the beginning of the show we hit the mother lode of story songs: those that tell ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 40:46
Pianist Keith Jarrett - letting the music happen.
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 34:27
"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for
me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...
Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 19:40
- Purchases: 4
A fascinating 55-minute three-way conversation between host Mike Cuthbert, the extravagantly gifted and knowledgeable Ramsey Lewis, and his compani...
- Added: Mar 28, 2008
- Length: 01:02:00
- Purchases: 2
