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Remember, Celebrate, and Sing: Geoffrey Lamar Wilson
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Laamar at First Ave's Best New Bands show in 2024, Credit: James Napoli
In the wake of the police killing of Philando Castile, North Minneapolis native Geoffrey Lamar Wilson turned to music as an act of protest and reme...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 05:39
European Women Composers
From: Brent Johnson
Series: King of Instruments
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For Women's history month, we look at organ music created by women over the years. We start with music from Europe and beyond.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Judaism’s and Israel’s Middle Eastern roots and connections.
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
With so much violence being directed toward Israel, a person could get the impression that Israel and Jews don’t belong in the Middle East. Yet we ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Friends
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
“Sounds Jewish” features a global Jewish playlist about friends – inspired by the recent death and blessed memory of host Andy Muchin’s longtime bu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
NHPR Pride Music Show
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: NHPR PRIDE Music Show Logo, Credit: Sara Plourde
NHPR's music special for PRIDE month

  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:53:57
Beyond The Barrier #045 - Voices of The Ancestors - Hour 1
From: Chris Kuborn
Series: Beyond The Barrier
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #45 - Hour 1
This we journey back but also forward as we listen to the tribal sounds of ambient music. Inspired by the recordings of Byron Metcalf this week w...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
DWFC 2022-12: Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler: Berlin Music Festival, 12/19/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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He's the wunderkind of the conducting world: Klaus Mäkelä. Though just in his mid-twenties, the Finnish conductor is slated to become chief conduct...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
Live From Cain's Music Special
From: Kelly Burley
Caption: Live From Cain's
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Fullbright is featured in this music-focused special recorded in front of a live audience at the historic C...

Bought by KWGS, KGOU, KOSU, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 58:44
  • Purchases: 4
DWFC 2202-07: Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich and more, 11/14/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Augustin Hadelich
Too different, too innovative: That's what Beethoven's contemporaries thought of his now famous violin concerto! Violinist Augustin Hadelich gives ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
DWFC 2022-06: Beethoven Festival: "Temperaments" with Alexander Melnikov, 11/7/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Alexander Melnikov
Are you melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic or choleric? No matter your temperament, there's something for you in this 2022 Beethoven Festival concer...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
DWFC 2202-05: St. Matthew Passion: Leipzig Bach Festival, 10/31/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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It's an absolute thrill for any Bach fan to hear his St. Matthew Passion in the place he premiered it: the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. And this i...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
WoodSongs 919: Tyminski and Drew Holcomb
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: New music from Dan Tyminski.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes one of the premier vocalists in modern acoustic music Tyminski plus East ...

Bought by WVRU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KEDT, WETS, KHNS and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 27
DWFC: 2022-01:Leipzig Bach Festival – "Father and Son" (opening concert), 10/3/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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Like father, like son – or so the saying goes. But how true does this hold for Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel? The opening ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:58
Tango Poet Homero Manzi
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: Homero Manzi
The life and poetry of one of Tango's most beloved lyricists, Homero Manzi.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jul 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
DWFC 2022-00: Special Episode for Ukraine: Concerts from March 11 and March 16, 2022, 6/27/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Daniel Barenboim conducting
In times of war, music can provide a much-needed glimmer of hope – and this special DWFC episode dedicated to Ukraine does just that. It features p...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
WoodSongs 1032: Scott Cook & Crys Matthews
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Crys Matthews makes her debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Canadian troubadour Scott Cook plus southeastern North Carolina folksi...

Bought by KTRL, RadioFreePalmer, KBRW, KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 34
Portraits In Black: Jazz Tributes To African-American Heroes
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
Caption: Jackie Robinson
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus, and others.

Bought by WLRH, KRCU Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
DWFC-21-10: Music from the Bach Festival about the Messiah, 12/6/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
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Is it possible to tell what's arguably the most told story in the world – the life and works of Jesus Christ – in a fresh, new way? The 2021 Bach F...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:57
DWFC-21-05: Beethovenfest - Sacred music for mourning and hope, 11/1/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Conductor Philippe Herreweghe
What do you turn to when a loss is so great that you can't put your grief into words? For many people, it's music – but such music isn't strictly s...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:58
StoryCorps: Kelly Jeanne Grant and Janet Saia
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: From left to right, Kelly Jeanne Grant, Jennifer Arnold, and Janet Saia in New York in 2016. Courtesy of Janet Saia.
Kelly Jeanne Grant and Janet Saia remember their friend, Jennifer Arnold, the costume dresser for Broadway’s longest running show, Phantom of the O...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:41
9/11 music specials - September 11th remembrance - 1 or 2 hours
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Music Specials
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2 one hour music specials - for broadcast on or around September 11th. / Patriot Day - Hour one features Singers/Songwriters. Hour two features Roc...

Bought by KAAD-LP, RadioFreePalmer, WORT, RadioStPete Florida, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:50
  • Purchases: 5
S06 Ep02: In Memoriam, 9/11/2021
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, music written in memory of those days and the effects it had on so ma...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
JerryGrass Vol.16
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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An all-new Jerry Garcia special featuring his bluegrass, jazz and transformative musical work across the ages.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:40
WoodSongs 917: United by Music North America Band
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The one-and-only Marlana VanHoose on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the United by Music North America Band which features musicians with d...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WVRU, KMSU and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 29
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: The Music and Philanthropy of Harry Chapin- Single Hour Version
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Single hour version of a program spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks abo...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3