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17-05 Women Composers, Connie Sheu Interview
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Connie Sheu, Credit: Connie Sheu
This week’s program features music by women composers and an interview with guitarist Connie Shue. ------------------------------------------------...

Bought by KXIQ , Ohm Radio , KXIQ , KMXT, WKMS and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 44
Woman's March-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Mother & Daughter -Women's March NYC
Mixing the voices of millions of marchers around the country and the globe with music from the protest movement and the history of freedom fighters...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 1
Pauline Oliveros RIP
From: Karen Michel
Caption: Pauline Oliveros at home, Credit: Karen Michel
Electronic music pioneer and founder of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros, born: May 30, 1932, Houston, TX, died: November 24, 2016, Kingston, NY re...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
The Double Life of Catarina Avelar
From: Barbara Paulsen
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She gave up her dream of being a Portuguese pop star to become a social worker. Now she finds that her day job has made her a better singer.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #334 - LaVern Baker, Pt. 2 - 1954-56
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" looks at how one of R&B's greatest voices, LaVern Baker, got her start. It's part two of a two part feature on th...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WHRV, Royalton Community Radio, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Suprabhatam (Auspicious Dawn)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on. For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Episode #333 - LaVern Baker, Pt. 1 - 1949-1954
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, th "Juke In The Back" looks at how one of R&B's greatest voices, LaVern Baker, got her start. It's part one of a two part feature on the...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WHRV, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #331 - Lil Greenwood
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" pays tribute to the great R&B vocalist, Lil Greenwood. You'll hear her greatest early recordings from 1950-1954, before she ...

Bought by WHRV, Royalton Community Radio, WRNC-LP, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Episode #324 - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Willie Mae Thornton was a trailblazer, who in making her own rules paved the way for other groundbreaking female artists like Janis Joplin and Mado...

Bought by KMUW, 90.5 WSNC, Royalton Community Radio, WRNC-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #313 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 5 - 1954-59
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, WHRV, KSRQ and more


  • Added: May 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #312 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 4 - 1951-53
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KCMJ Community Radio, Royalton Community Radio, WOUB, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode #311 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 3 - 1950-51
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WHRV, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #310 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 2 - 1947-49
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WHRV, WRNC-LP, KSRQ, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+ Evolution
From: Anny Celsi
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Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding took up the violin at age five, was a concertmaster at fifteen and graduated from the Berklee School of Music at a...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:51
Episode #309 - Dinah Washington, Pt. 1 - 1943-46
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Dinah Washington was more than just the "Queen of The Jukeboxes," "Queen Of The Blues" and any other prestigious but vacant title you could pin on ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, WHRV, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Genya Ravan, 'Rock And Roll Refugee,' Has Stories To Fill Two Lifetimes
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: Genya Ravan (left) and director Chris Henry on the set of Rock and Roll Refugee, a new off-Broadway play about Ravan's early life in music. , Credit: Shannon Rednour/Courtesy of the artist
She came to this country as a refugee from post-war Europe; learned English listening to the radio; and before long, heard herself on it. She star...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:27
UpFront Soul #2016.12 - Women's History Month - March 21-27, 2016
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Bobbi Humphrey
We celebrate Women's History Month with the iconic voices of Aretha Franklin and Eartha Kitt, pioneering instrumentalists like Bobbi Humphrey, and ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, KSRQ, KMXT, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 5
UpFront Soul #2016.11 - Women's History Month - March 14-20, 2016
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Ella Baker
We bring you the sounds of soulful sisterhood as we celebrate Women's History Month. We'll get out on the dance floor with Chaka Khan and Gloria Ga...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, WJAB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
Inside the World of Deja Rene Carr
From: Paolo Rosen
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Deje Rene Carr has basically reached the status of local music legend in Pioneer Valley. The catch, she's still in high school.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
Sherry Wang – Fly
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: Fresh Picked by Open Orchard Productions
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Sherry Wang isn't just another teenager balancing good grades with studying for the SAT's and having fun. Instead, on top of all the expected press...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 04:56
Episode #301 - Faye Adams
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week's "Juke In The Back" highlights the short, but important career of Faye Adams. DJ Alan Freed called her "The little gal with the big voic...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WHRV, 90.5 WSNC, WOUB, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Live Feed Presents: "Ellis Delaney"
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed, we feature the music of Ellis Delaney and her performance during the Concert on the Green Series on the campus of...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 33:09
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson In The 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Wilson's records blended big-band and small-group elements with pop orchestration and doses of soul that could be both big-city hip and suburban cool.

Bought by KAAD-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMUW, WCPN, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Women in Film Music 15-42
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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This week on The Score, with Edmund Stone, Women in Film Music.

Bought by WCRI, Spokane Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Bay Area Beats: Dom Jones
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
Caption: Dom Jones, Credit: Ian Davis
In our latest edition of Bay Area Beats we'll hear from Dom Jones. She came up in East Oakland, writing poetry and singing solos in church on Sunda...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:44