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Bagpipes arrived in Minnesota in the 1850’s, brought by Scottish immigrants to what is now Blue Earth county, as settlers moved in, occupying Dakot...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 06:32
Recording artist, singer/songwriter and producer Tufawon has gained notoriety In Minnesota and internationally for his powerful songs of protest an...
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 05:05
It's all about the band sound on this installment of Folk Salad. We will be playing songs from the Rolling Stones, Oklahoma's own Double Not Spyz,...
- Added: Sep 18, 2022
- Length: 58:58
Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 50:00
Beethoven wrote one opera, Fidelio. A 2003 production so captivated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she wrote a letter to the director.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 03:11
Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for anothe...
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 27:05
Producer Kali Beeson's feature features a woman whose first yoga experience involved chanting. She went home and told her husband it was weird. Now...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 03:26
The New Wave Time Trippers are not your typical '80s cover band. For one, they're good. For another, they're dominating a little town so far north,...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
Choral music often consists of centuries-old compositions. But one local group—the Singers Minnesota Choral Artists—has premiered more 70 new compo...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:03
Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:59
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
An experimental narrative music piece for Radiolab/Longshot Radio's project exploring creativity, failure and revision.
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 03:32
Spanish guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Rosalia Roio talks about her Pájaro Volador ("Flying Bird"), one of her many homemade instruments built fro...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
David Kontak builds bizarre musical machines out of found objects and uses them to produce experimental soundscapes.
- Added: Feb 03, 2011
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 2
A soundrich experience from the parking lot of The Dead's show in Albany, New York on April 17, 2009.
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: 03:25
Singer songwriter Duncan Sheik feels much more at ease watching other people perform his work. He likes writing and recording his own albums but h...
Bought by WGDR, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and Mississippi Public Broadcasting
- Added: Nov 10, 2008
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 4
Part storyteller, part wanderer, Texas songwriter Joe Ely talks about lessons he learned from a life of travel.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KMXT
- Added: Jun 20, 2008
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 08:21
- Purchases: 1
A profile of Austin's hometown heroes Spoon.
- Added: Sep 12, 2007
- Length: 07:59
- Added: Sep 11, 2007
- Length: 07:29
- Purchases: 1
a choral program teaches children the universal language of music...
- Added: Apr 27, 2007
- Length: 07:45
Singer, songwriter and activist Michael Franti reflects changes in his approach to music making over the years.
- Added: Oct 16, 2006
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 2
Folk singer Dar Williams reflects on the craft of songwriting
Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2006
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 6
Matisyahu is a Hassidic Jew, and the front man for his own reggae band.
Bought by KBBI Alaska, PRX, KZUM, KCUR, Audible and more
- Added: Aug 25, 2004
- Length: 12:48
- Purchases: 6
A a pipe organ builder discusses the theatre of a religious ceremony, and misses his days as a performing organist.
Bought by Audible
- Added: Aug 25, 2004
- Length: 12:23
- Purchases: 1
