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The Future of Music (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, KMUN, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Musician's Spotlight Promo- Andrea Harsell- 657
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Missoula, Montana recording artist Andrea Harsell returns to the program to discuss her most recent album “Something For The Pain” and how she’s ca...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: :46
Jazz Women All-Stars Return to the Dakota in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Patty Peterson, Credit: Jennifer Bong
The Jazz Women All-Stars are back in a big show coming soon. Phil Nusbaum tells us about it.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Musician's Spotlight- Bonnie Raitt Part One- 655
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Multiple Grammy award winning singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt joins host John Floridis to discuss her most recent album “Dig In Deep” and reflect...

Bought by WZRE, KMUN, Prairie Public, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
Musician's Spotlight Promo - Naomi Moon Seigel - 653
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Trombonist and composer Naomi Moon Siegel made the move from Seattle, Wa. to Missoula and has been carving out her own piece of Montana’s musical s...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: :45
Women's History Special: Mary Osborne - Queen of the Jazz Guitar
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the recordings of Mary Osborne, a pioneer for women jazz instrumentalists. Celebrate Women's Histo...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, High Plains Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Nightingale Trio Sings Virtuosic Versions of Eastern European Folksongs
From: KBEM
Caption: The Nightingale Trio, Credit: Margie O’Loughlin
The Nightingale Trio presents Eastern European folksongs. In the process, the group gives American audiences glimpses into the ways of life in East...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 07:34
Pulitzer 100: The Future of Music (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Caroline Shaw is the youngest recipient ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now she’s one of the most respected composers on the New Music scene ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
Pulitzer 100: The Future of Music (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Caroline Shaw is the youngest recipient ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now she’s one of the most respected composers on the New Music scene ...

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Musician's Spotlight Promo - The Indigo Girls- 637
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Amy Ray and Emily Sailers have spent the last 35 years performing together, produced fifteen albums (seven gold, four platinum, and one double plat...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: :45
Musician's Spotlight - The Indigo Girls- 637
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Amy Ray and Emily Sailers have spent the last 35 years performing together, produced fifteen albums (seven gold, four platinum, and one double plat...

Bought by WZRE, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Connie Evingson Sings the Great American Songbook
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Connie Evingson, Credit: Travis Anderson
Connie Evingson is one of the leading jazz vocalists in Minnesota. And she’s presenting a show of great songs that figure prominently in the histor...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Maud Hixson Presents Judy Garland, Jazz Singer
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Maud Hixson, Credit: Olivia Wilcox
Judy Garland, the 20th century show-biz icon from Minnesota is one of Maud Hixson’s great inspirations as a singer. Maud has rounded up a group of ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 05:01
Jazz Women All Stars in Two Shows at the Dakota in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Patty Peterson, Credit: Jennifer Bong
Is the Jazz scene some kind of men’s club? No, and especially not in this day and age. So why not get some of the women long-time luminaries of the...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Episode #31: Media Roundtable (Bitch Media, She Shreds Magazine, Tom Tom Magazine)
From: Kill Rock Stars
Series: The Future of What
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If women and girls are one of the fastest growing markets in the music industry, shouldn t they be better represented in media? That's what some, l...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 49:29
The Speed of Sound: Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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What doesn’t Wayne Coyne have his hand in these days? The Flaming Lips frontman is rarely out of the spotlight, whether it’s with his day job, side...

Bought by KUCB, WLPR , KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 4
Meet the brilliant and pioneering soprano Martina Arroyo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Martina Arroyo, Credit: Marty Umans
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Art Works presents a 2010 interview with the great Martina Arroyo. We salute Martina Arroyo for her brilliant v...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Good Left Hook (hour 1)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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In boxing, a good left hook is a shot no one sees coming that usually connects so powerfully it ends in a knockout. This week we play on this idea ...

Bought by KDLG and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Speed of Sound: Rhiannon Giddens
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Rhiannon Giddens has become one of the strongest voices in music today. As one part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, she dug deep into historical...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: First Aid Kit
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The duo First Aid Kit burst onto the scene a few years back with the championing of Conor Oberst, but quickly started blazing their own path. Thei...

Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2
Josanna Kiggins: Skin Color, Gender and Song
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses racial discrimination and cultural gender norms with Josanna Kiggins, a young black woman living in the small, predominantl...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Proving Herself: Melba Liston, Arranger and First Lady of Trombone
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz: An exploration of the path of Melba Liston as she became an arranger/composer and an instrumentalist in the j...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
A Conversation with Sherrie Maricle
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sherrie Maricle and Diva, Credit: Shaun Mader
Sherrie Maricle has played with Jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for woman in jazz.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Country Fried Rock Interviews Caitlin Cary of NC Music Love Army #1339
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: We Are Not For Sale: Songs Of Protest, Credit: Skillet Gilmore
Caitlin Cary and Jon Lindsay formed the NC Music Love Army after a long phone conversation inspired by a song quickly written and posted on YouTube...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:00